‘W.E.B. DuBois: Recharging Modern Design’ to Open at Cooper Hewitt in December, 2022

 

 

 

W.E.B. DuBois: Recharging Modern Design image Library of Congress courtesy Cooper Hewitt

At the Paris World Fair of 1900, W.E.B. Du Bois used groundbreaking statistical graphics to document the accomplishments of Black Americans and life inside “the Veil” of systemic oppression. The Library of Congress will lend a selection of these rare data visualizations to Cooper Hewitt’s Recharting Modern Design exhibition, allowing visitors to see them in person for the first time in 120 years. The data graphics of W.E.B. Du Bois will appear in dialogue with decorative objects from the fair, connecting Du Bois’s “color line” to the “whiplash line” of Art Nouveau. What is the enduring power of these graphics today?

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Let us Think About ‘Designing Peace’ ~ an Exhibition Currently on View at Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum NYC

 

 

 

Peace Pavilion; Design Team: Collaborative Architecture. Collaborators: Arup, Landscape India, Suranjana Satewalker, Kapil Suralekar Associates, Shibu Raman; Client: Government of India. Location: New Delhi, India 2017. Photo credit: © Collaborative Architecture

Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum opened its doors to  “Designing Peace,” an exhibition exploring the unique role design can play in pursuing peace. On view from June 10 through Sept. 4, 2023, the exhibition features design projects from around the world that look at ways to create and sustain more durable peaceful interactions—from creative confrontations that challenge existing structures to designs that demand embracing justice and truth in a search for reconciliation.

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