Viet Village Urban Farm in “Why Design Now?” Currently at the Cooper Hewitt

“Why Design Now?” is the question posed by the fourth of the Cooper Hewitt, National Design Museum’s National Design Triennial exhibition series. Designers around the world are answering this question by creating products, prototypes, buildings, landscapes, messages, and more that address social and environmental challenges.

The Triennial looks at what progressive designers, engineers, entrepreneurs, and citizens are doing in diverse fields and at different scales around the world. It includes practical design solutions already in use to solve a range of world problems, as well as ideas in their early stages, designed to perpetuate further research and experimentation.

The themes explored under the broad question “Why Design Now?” are those of energy, mobility, community, materials, prosperity, health, communication, and simplicity, and the Viet Village Urban Farm is exhibited under the “prosperity” category.

See the Viet Village project on the Why Design Now? Exhibition Website