Great news! Maria Nicanor, ED Rice Design Alliance at Rice University’s School of Architecture in Houston, has been named the director of Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum. She starts her tenure March 21!

The 2022 Blue Ridge Labs Fellowship application is live! ​​Get paid to build tech that solves real problems. We're looking for designers, engineers, PMs & community leaders passionate about #digitalequity Apply by 3/24! labs.robinhood.org/fellowship/ #Socialimpact #TechForGood

DESIGNING PEACE ☮️🌿Exhibition preview successfully held today.Story of our work #Manipur Women Gun Survivors Network & Global Alliance #IndigenousPeoples featured in book.With Curator ⁦Cynthia E. Smith⁩ at ⁦Cooper Hewitt⁩ ⁦Smithsonian⁩ Design Museum #Gratitude

Very honored to see our app, created more than 6 years ago, be exhibited in the Cooper Hewitt Smithsonian Design Museum's "Designing Peace Now" Exhibition. It runs through Sept 2023 along with some other amazing work. #refugees #designingpeace Cooper Hewitt

If you are in #NYC do go & check out “Designing Peace” Exhibition on till 9/4 Cooper Hewitt⁩ ⁦Smithsonian⁩ Design Museum.Curated by ⁦Cynthia E. Smith⁩ the exhibition takes us to several innovations in world that inspire peace ☮️🌿& hope,much needed in today’s times

Proud to have the @RegreenAfrica App at the Cooper Hewitt exhibit.👏 The app enables farmers to record & share their own proven #restoration efforts. The data collected is analyzed to adjust & optimize sustainable practices underway. ➡️ bit.ly/3b7BOtP #DesigningPeace

Wonderful piece about #DesigningPeace in Fast Company! fastcompany.com/90765781/40-ta…

Social Emergency Response Center KITS by kenneth bailey on view at #DesigningPeace @CooperHewitt. Mailed in a tube, communities can create space to collectively heal from social emergencies! To learn more about SERC and other #PeaceActions see collection.cooperhewitt.org/objects/231880…

To help prevent recruitment of vulnerable youth by extremist groups Tunisia-based comic book designers Lab 619 & Search for Common Ground created The Adventures of Daly graphic novels. Learn more about how these comics are #DesigningPeace at Cooper Hewitt, read more here collection.cooperhewitt.org/objects/231880…

Young refugees and local youth start a new life together in the city of Amsterdam at Startblok Elzenhagen - redesigned co-living housing by @MUST_Urbanism. Cooper Hewitt #DesigningPeace #PeaceActions To learn more: exhibitions.cooperhewitt.org/designing-peac…

Colombian's govt engaged Bogotá-based Mullenlowe Group Colombia creative agency to design a series of creative campaigns encouraging rebel guerrillas to demobilize and come home during the holidays. #DesigningPeace Cooper Hewitt More about Christmas Operations collection.cooperhewitt.org/objects/231880…

Body Mapping by former child soldiers, their families & communities in DRC help heal from trauma of war. Made in collaboration with Harvard Humanitarian Initiative Eastern Congo Initiative Caritas Bunia Provide Hope in Action & other regional NGOS Learn more #DesigningPeace Cooper Hewitt #PeaceActions collection.cooperhewitt.org/objects/231880…

Island Tracker is 1 of 40 designs in #DesigningPeace exhibition Cooper Hewitt in NYC. An innovative online tool by CSIS records artificial island building in S China Seas, increased transparency discourages assertive behavior in the disputed waterway. collection.cooperhewitt.org/objects/231880…

Today is publication day of Designing Peace: Building a Better Future Now by Cynthia E. Smith! This book conveys the momentum that design can gain in effecting a peace-filled future. Available now at SHOP Cooper Hewitt, and via Artbook | D.A.P. get it here: s.si.edu/3QcG4HV

Papers, Please digital game by Lucas Pope helps build empathy in its players who as border agents decides who enters the fictional country of Arstotzka. 1 of 40 designs for peace in #DesigningPeace in NYC Cooper Hewitt collection.cooperhewitt.org/objects/231880…

WThe Daily Heller: Give Peace a Mark printmag.com/daily-heller/t…

Cooper Hewitt’s Designing Peace Explores How Creatives Can Contribute to Building a Better Future azuremagazine.com/article/cooper…

Designers Build a Provocative Road Map for World Peace smithsonianmag.com/smithsonian-in…

Join me on May 23 11:30AM for a conversation “Designing the future we want to live in – today” with 4 Eco Solidarity studios [WantedDesign] Manhattan @icff_official at the Javits Center #icffwdm #internationaldesign #emergingdesign wanteddesignnyc.com/eco-solidarity…