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Renovated Cooper Hewitt design museum reopening
CONNECTING NEIGHBORHOODS
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Websites and apps help join communities GREMLYN BRADLEY-WADDELL SPECIAL FOR THE REPUBLIC
It’s 2015 ‌ and you still don’t know your neighbor’s name, right? If that sounds familiar, why not try to become more connected this year to those quite literally around you, if only digitally? Joining an existing neighborhood network or website, or starting one yourself, doesn’t take a lot of time or even a lot of effort, and there are com-
panies that make set-up extremely easy even for technologically un-savvy types. Two of the more popular ones available across the nation include Nextdoor, a San Francisco-based firm that operates a free, private social network for individual neighborhoods, and Neighborhood Link, a Denver-based, private, for-profit company that provides free websites for neighborhoods, HOAs and comSee CONNECTING, Page R3
NEW YORK — The Cooper Hewitt Smithsonian Design Museum, revamped, restored and expanded after a three-year closure, is reopening at last, all decked out for the 21st century in its historic Carnegie Mansion home just a few blocks up Fifth Avenue from the Guggenheim and the Metropolitan Museum of Art. Visitors to the museum will be hardpressed to recognize the old-fashioned, somewhat wonky entity of old. It’s now four stories of cutting-edge galleries, hands-on and community-friendly. The spacious garden, adjoining cafĂŠ and gift shop, housed in Andrew Carnegie’s 19th century picture gallery, will be accessible from a 90th Street gate and open to the public at no charge. Inside, ticket-holders should come ready to experience a new kind of museum straddling art and science, 19th century architecture and a 21st-century Jetsons sort of world, where 3-D designs can be downloaded and hundreds of wallpaper patterns can be viewed (or designed) at the touch of a finger. With 60 percent more gallery space than it had before, the Cooper Hewitt opens with 10 new shows at once, making use of all four floors. “Designing the New Cooper Hewittâ€? recounts the museum’s transformation, which involved 12 design teams and took a decade to realize. The first floor features a “Process Labâ€? with an industrial-size 3-D printer, among other tools. The lab invites visitors to explore the process of problem-solving behind design. A “Beautiful Usersâ€? exhibit includes pitchers, wheelchairs and other objects from daily life, examining the shift toward user-oriented design. A quick climb up one more staircase and the juxtaposition of traditional and cutting-edge really starts to take flight. “Making Designâ€? brings together a wide range of works from the museum’s permanent collection, while “Hewitt Sisters Collectâ€? tells the story of Eleanor and Sarah Hewitt and their collections of textiles, hatboxes, wall coverings, furniture and even birdcages (notice the sound of chirping birds), among other decorative arts. The third floor features the exhibit “Tools: Extending Our Reach.â€? Highlights include a walk-through installation composed of dozens of hammers, saws and other basic tools, suspended so they appear to be exploding, and a 24-hour, delayed live feed of the sun’s surface, courtesy of the Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory in Cambridge, Massachusetts — an illustration of the power of complex tools like satellites and telescopes. The exhibit is reminiscent at times of what you might expect from a science museum.
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