Exhibition | Making Home

Making Home—Smithsonian Design Triennial is on view at Cooper Hewitt from November 2, 2024, through August 10, 2025. Featuring 25 site-specific, newly commissioned installations, the exhibition explores design’s role in shaping the physical and emotional realities of home across the United States, US Territories, and Tribal Nations.

Peruse works from featured Triennial designers and thematic publications.

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Book cover featuring a photograph of laundry drying on a clothesline, held up by a branch. Tall grasses in the foreground; a pipeline, house, and clouded blue sky in the background. Pixelated bright red-orange title text at top.

Making Home: Belonging, Memory, and Utopia in the 21st Century

Crafted Kinship

Crafted Kinship

AphroChic: Celebrating the Legacy of the Black Family Home

AphroChic: Celebrating the Legacy of the Black Family Home

Cream colored book cover with black trim. Center of cover dominated by spiraling infographic with red, yellow, pink and purple lines. Above the spiral, three alternating lines of centered text in black, red, and black contain the title and subtitle ”the color line at the turn of the century,” which is in all caps. Editors names appear in black below the spiral.

W. E. B. Du Bois's Data Portraits: Visualizing Black America

Book cover featuring an close-up image of tree bark with the name "HUGH" carved into the wood

Hugh Hayden: American Vernacular

Never Broken: Visualizing Lenape Histories

Never Broken: Visualizing Lenape Histories

The Museum of Other People: From Colonial Acquisitions to Cosmopolitan Exhibitions

The Museum of Other People: From Colonial Acquisitions to Cosmopolitan Exhibitions

Pink textile book cover with large red title text, the word "MOTHERHOOD" broken up into multiple lines with o's of differing widths

Designing Motherhood: Things That Make or Break Our Births

Book cover featuring a soft illustration of a child on a tire swing with a vibrant sunset in the background. English title text at top

Book cover featuring a child on a pink fire escape, looking out into a night sky and a glowing arch in the distance, past city buildings.

The Perfect Place

Going Down Home with Daddy

Going Down Home with Daddy