Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum

黃綵誼
3 min readMay 21, 2023

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It is the only museum in the United States devoted to historical and contemporary design.within the Andrew Carnegie Mansion in Manhattan.

It is the only museum in the United States that focuses on design history and contemporary design. Emphasize the power of actively exploring knowledge.

NEWS:

After entering the exhibition hall, everyone will get the “the pen” and personal password provided by the museum. As long as you see interesting exhibits in the whole museum, you can use the interactive pen to touch the sensor mark, and you can immediately record the access to the relevant information of the collection.

Exhibit:

isphere: The Berlin installation art group Plastique Fantastique, inspired by the epidemic, the science fiction comics collection of the 1950s, and the utopian movement in the 1960s, brought their work “isphere”

cause on April 27, 2020, it was necessary to cover the mouth and nose when taking public transportation in Berlin. In response to this rule, they designed <iSphere>.

Their works focus on how to identify public and private spaces, and how to respond to and interact with them in daily life.

Comments.

1.Description:An Open-source, retro-futuristic face shield shaped like a fish bowl to protect wearers against coronavirus.

2.Analysis:Wear the equipment they designed to move in the living space.

3.Interpretation:Respond to how people should face and adapt to new public issues.

4.Judgment: They often create with transparent and lightweight bubble devices, with air as the main body of their creation.

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