There has never been a more critical time for design exhibitions focused on climate change, says Cooper Hewitt director Caroline Baumann, ahead of the museum's Nature triennial that will show "how designers can save the planet".
The major exhibition at New York's Cooper Hewitt Smithsonian Design Museum, organised with the Cube design museum in the Netherlands, will present works that offer both low- and high-tech solutions to the human-induced problems faced by our world today.
Nature ? Cooper Hewitt Design Triennial will present 65 projects at the intersection of nature and design, including two-thirds related to climate change. Photograph by So Morimoto
Given the recent report issued by the United Nations, which called for "unprecedented and urgent action" to limit global warming, Baumann told Dezeen that the theme and timing could not be more pertinent. "This is an emergency, as far as we're concerned," she said. "We were already working on the exhibition, but hearing [the UN's] prediction for the future made us even more tied to our computers; talking to designers saying 'what are you doing to solve this problem"'."
Triennial to present wide range of sustainable projects
From May 2019, the Cooper Hewitt's sixth design triennial will take over the entire Fifth Avenue museum, and include 65 projects from designers around the world ? with two-thirds dedicated to climate change. The cross-disciplinary works will include open-sour...