Beschreibung:
Cynthia E. Smith serves as Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum's Curator of Socially Responsible Design. Trained as an industrial designer she led multidisciplinary projects for cultural institutions. After earning a graduate degree from Harvard's Kennedy School she joined Cooper Hewitt where she integrates her work experience with her advocacy on human rights and social justice issues. She co-authored The Politics of Genocide: U.S. Rhetoric vs. Inaction in Dafur for the Kennedy School Review; curates the Design with the Other 90% exhibition series; co-curated the Design Triennial: Why Design Now?; serves on international design juries; and lectures widely on socially responsible design.
Published in conjunction with the exhibition "By the People: Designing a Better America" at Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum, New York, September 30, 2016-February 26, 2017.