Cooper Hewitt Sustainable Fashion Window Panels

Designers are forging meaningful connections with nature, inspired past its properties and resources. Their collaborative processes—working with nature and in teams across multiple disciplines—are optimistic responses at this moment when humans contend with the complexities and conditions of our planet. Compelled by a sense of urgency, designers look to nature as a guide and partner.

With projects ranging from experimental prototypes to consumer products, immersive installations, and architectural constructions, Nature—Cooper Hewitt Design Triennial , co-organized with Cube design museum, presents the work of sixty-2 international design teams. Collaborations involve scientists, engineers, advocates for social and environmental justice, artists, and philosophers. They are engaging with nature in innovative and footing-breaking ways, driven by a profound awareness of climate change and ecological crises as much as advances in scientific discipline and technology.

The exhibition themes explore vii strategies that designers are using to collaborate with nature—to empathise, remediate, simulate, save, nurture, augment, and facilitate. The outcomes are speculative or practical and reveal new materials, creative methods, and inventive technologies. These provocations and solutions put forth by today's extraordinary pattern teams serve as encouragement for an enduring and more than respectful partnership with nature.

Curatorial teams from both museums developed the exhibition content, including Cooper Hewitt'due south Caitlin Condell, associate curator and caput of Drawings, Prints & Graphic Pattern; Andrea Lipps, associate curator of contemporary design; Matilda McQuaid, deputy director of curatorial and head of Textiles; and Caroline O'Connell, curatorial assistant; and Cube'southward Gene Bertrand, program and development managing director; and Hans Gubbels, director of Cube.

A visitor experiences Curiosity Cloud designed by mischer'traxler studio. Photograph past Thomas Loof.

Nature past Blueprint

Complementing the Design Triennial, Cooper Hewitt's second-floor galleries will be devoted to a rotating presentation of objects from the museum's expansive holdings of over 210,000 objects.Nature past Design: Selections from the Permanent Drove is at present on view and celebrates nature as possibly the longest-continuing and virtually global sources of blueprint inspiration. Spanning from the 16th century to the present, Nature by Pattern features boggling textiles, furniture, pattern books, jewelry and more to evidence how designers have interpreted nature's rich beauty and complex science.

PARTNERING WITH NATURE

An adaptation of Nature—Cooper Hewitt Design Triennialvolition be on view at the Globe Economic Forum's 50th Annual Meeting, Jan. 21 through Jan. 24, 2020 in Davos-Klosters, Switzerland. A collaboration between the Smithsonian Institution and the World Economic Forum, Partnering with Nature volition be offered alongside panels, workshops, and other sessions organized past the WEF that accost the ecological crisis and the Forum's major focus on sustainability.

Nature—Cooper Hewitt Design Triennial is made possible by support from The Ainslie Foundation. Boosted support is provided by Amita and Purnendu Chatterjee, the August Heckscher Exhibition Fund, the Esme Usdan Exhibition Endowment Fund, and the Creative Industries Fund NL.

Funding is also provided by the Consulate General of the Netherlands in New York every bit part of the Dutch Culture United states programme, and past the New York State Council on the Arts with the support of Governor Andrew 1000. Cuomo and the New York State Legislature.

Max Liboiron is a feminist environmental scientist, science and technology studies (STS) scholar, and activist. As an Banana Professor in Geography at Memorial University of Newfoundland, Liboiron directs Civic Laboratory for Environmental Activeness Research (Articulate), a feminist, anti-colonial laboratory that specializes in grassroots ecology monitoring of marine plastic pollution. Liboiron's STS piece of work focuses on how invisible...

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