Making Home Saturday Series: Building Home
Join Cooper Hewitt for a day-long, multi-format public program and celebration taking place across the museum’s galleries and garden involving several Making Home—Smithsonian Design Triennial designers and architects. Through food, song, storytelling, and conversation, the participants will share the cultural perspectives, models of environmental advocacy, and systems of Indigenous building they explore in their Making Home commissions.
Program Schedule
SESSION 1
11:00–11:30 a.m.
A musical performance by American Modern Opera Company (AMOC*)’s Davóne Tines with Lenape Center’s Director of Music & Language Brent Michael Davids (Mohican/Munsee-Lenape) and a special guest set atop a rocking plinth in the installation “Living Room, Orlean, Virginia”. Learn more and register.
SESSION 2
12:00–2:00 p.m.
A Native food tasting and garden celebration that will share uses of seasonal plants as food and constructive materials by representatives of the Tohono O’odham Nation’s Alexander Pancho Farm in Arizona, including farmers Noland Johnson and Amy Juan, youth farmers from the Pancho Farm community, Tohono O’odham traditional singer Michael Enis, and their collaborators architects Aranda\Lasch. Learn more and register.
SESSION 3
2:00–3:15 p.m.
A presentation on water advocacy and rethinking environmental design systems for preservation in the Everglades featuring AIRIE’s Reverend Houston Cypress (Otter Clan of the Miccosukee Tribe of Indians of Florida), water rights activist and canoe maker Daniel Tommie (Seminole Tribe of Florida), and Betty Osceola (Panther Clan Miccosukee Tribe of Indians of Florida) followed by a conversation with Zarith Pineda, Founder & Executive Director of New York–based organization Territorial Empathy and Triennial co-curator Alexandra Cunningham Cameron. Learn more and register.
SESSION 4
3:45–5:00 p.m.
A conversation on building collaboration across space, time, place, and scale through Indigenous Hawaiian architecture with architects Sean Connelly (Kanaka Hawai’i / Ilocano) and Dominic Leong (Kanaka Maoli) with filmmaker and curator Drew Kahuʻāina Broderick (Kanaka ʻŌiwi). Panel participants will then gather together within their installation “Hālau Kūkulu Hawaiʻi: A Home That Builds Multitudes” to participate in the Hawaiian tradition of a Talk Story, a free-flowing exchange of knowledge and experiences. Learn more and register.
THROUGHOUT THE DAY
11:00–5:00 p.m.
Drop in throughout the day to Cooper Hewitt’s Garden to meet additional Tohono O’odham representatives from the Pancho Farm community who have created table displays featuring materials, tools, and techniques with support of Aranda/Lasch and students from The Cooper Union School of Architecture.
Watch a film made by AIRIE in the conservatory location of their Triennial commission Ebb + Flow.
About the Making Home Saturday Series
The Making Home Saturday Series is a quarterly program that pairs special guests with participants from Making Home—Smithsonian Design Triennial. The program’s sessions include conversations on exhibition-related themes, including systems, belonging, memory, care, and building, as well as the contemporary concepts of home related to race, class, migration, climate, and technology. Learn about the previous Saturday Series.
REGISTRATION, ADMISSION, Accessibility
Registration is required. There is an $8 registration fee for each session, which includes admission to the exhibition. To register, please click the links in program schedule above.
For general questions or if we can provide additional accessibility services or accommodations to support your participation in this program, please email us at CHEducation@si.edu or let us know when registering.
Special Thanks
Making Home—Smithsonian Design Triennial is presented in collaboration with Smithsonian’s National Museum of African American History and Culture. This project received federal support from the Smithsonian American Women’s History Initiative Pool, administered by the Smithsonian American Women’s History Museum; the Latino Initiatives Pool, administered by the National Museum of the American Latino; the Asian Pacific American Initiatives Pool, administered by the Smithsonian Asian Pacific American Center; and the Smithsonian’s National Museum of African American History and Culture.
Generous support is provided by the Henry Luce Foundation and the Terra Foundation for American Art.
Support is also provided by the Lily Auchincloss Foundation; Edward and Helen Hintz; re:arc institute; the Keith Haring Foundation; the Lemberg Foundation; Maharam; and the Graham Foundation for Advanced Studies in the Fine Arts.
