Making Home—Smithsonian Design Triennial

I was commissioned to write a public essay by the Cooper Hewitt Smithsonian Design Museum as part of the Making Home—Smithsonian Design Triennial exhibition. Featuring 25 site-specific, newly commissioned installations, Making Home explores design’s role in shaping the physical and emotional realities of home across the United States, US Territories, and Tribal Nations. The exhibition is the seventh offering in the museum’s Design Triennial series, which was established in 2000 to address the most urgent topics of the time through the lens of design. Installed throughout the Andrew and Louise Carnegie Mansion, each floor of the exhibition is organized by themes that evoke experiences of home.
My essay The Old is New Again in Tomorrow's Smart Homes is part of the Triennial Reader—a collection of books, articles, and other source material that informed participants' works included in Making Home.