Emerging Issues in Contemporary Design: A Roundtable

This conversation took place December 7, 2006, at Cooper-Hewitt, National Design Museum, in New York. The participants were Barbara J. Bloemink, Brooke Hodge, Ellen Lupton, and Matilda McQuaid, the curators of Design Life Now: National Design Triennial 2006, with Patricia C. Phillips as moderator. The exhibition is on view from December 8, 2006, to July 29, 2007, at the Cooper-Hewitt, National Design Museum, in New York. The discussion focused on the state of the art of contemporary design as seen through the lens of the National Design Triennial, the only exhibition of its kind that features the work of designers from a number of fields, including architecture and landscape architecture, graphic and product design, fashion, animation, film, and robotics.1