Edited by Alexandra Cunningham Cameron, Christina L. De León, and Michelle Joan Wilkinson
Home is shaped by many factors: culture, region, environment, citizenship, economics, state of mind, and more. Making Home explores the diverse perspectives on home across the United States, US Territories, and Tribal Nations to reveal how design impacts this country, its value systems, and the people who inhabit its landscapes. Positioning home not only as a place of dwelling but also as a complex and highly subjective ecosystem, contributors show how notions of home resonate through private and public consciousness to inform the shared or conflicting histories that impact our country.
Probing urgent topics related to home such as colonialism, technological innovation, landscapes and the environment, and aesthetics and culture, Making Home uses the framework of design to pair investigative and practical analyses with imaginative and speculative ones. Contributors include designers, scholars, writers, artists, and critical thinkers across disciplines whose work and lived experiences illustrate specific circumstances that shape the contemporary home.
Making Home: Belonging, Memory, and Utopia in the 21st Century is a co-publication with The MIT Press.
This publication accompanies the exhibition Making Home—Smithsonian Design Triennial on view at Cooper Hewitt through August 10, 2025.
CONTRIBUTORS
Brian Adams
Joe Baker
Joseph Becker
La Vaughn Belle
Frank Blazquez
Sheila Pree Bright
Lori A. Brown
Michael Bullock
Carehaus
Tracey Robertson Carter
Mona Chalabi
Katrina Collins
Michelle D. Commander
Sean Connelly
Reverend Houston R. Cyprus
Designing Justice + Designing Spaces
Leah DeVun
Heather Dewey-Hagborg
Jarrett Earnest
Sofía Gallisá Muriente
Roxane Gay
Sophia Gebara
Rania Ghosn
Curry J. Hackett
David Hartt
Jeanine Hays
Hord Coplan Macht
Joyce Hwang
Allan Punzalan Isaac
Sandra Jackson-Dumont
Dalton Johnson
Terrol Dew Johnson
Ruba Katrib
Elleza Kelley
Kenneth Gofigan Kuper
Michelle Lanier
Natalia Lassalle-Morillo
Liam Lee
Brent Leggs
Dominic Leong
Sarah Lopez
Gervais Marsh
Carlos Martín
Bryan Mason
Catherine E. McKinley
Joiri Minaya
Tommy Mishima
Victoria Munro
Maria Nicanor
Caroline O’Connell
Camille Okhio
Betty Pancho
Ronald Rael
Balakrishnan Rajagopal
Suchi Reddy
Katherine Simóne Reynolds
Dr. Yashica Robinson
Brad Samuels
William Scott
Siddhartha V. Shah
Gretchen Sorin
Carlos J. Soto
Renée Stout
Isabel Strauss
Journey Streams
Davóne Tines
Dinizulu Gene Tinnie
Dr. Wallis Tinnie
Cornelius Tulloch
Whitney Leigh White
Kevin Young
John Zeisel
