6:30-8:30pm
Cooper Hewitt
Smithsonian Design Museum
2 East 91st Street
Experience design with all your senses! Cooper Hewitt presents the Experience Cafe: a night of tasting sounds, smelling words, and touching sensory materials with designers and scientists involved with The Senses: Design Beyond Vision.
Guests will rotate through hands-on stations spanning the museum, participating in activities designed to ignite the senses. Join us!
Hands-on stations include:
Explore flavor perception with designer Emilie Baltz and scientists from the Monell Chemical Senses Center.
Discover connections between taste, music, and chocolate with designer-scientist Bruno Mesz (UNTREF, STSEAS UNQ) and confectionary wizard Jonathan Grahm, Compartés Chocolatier.
Discover how perfume is designed with experts from International Flavors & Fragrances (IFF).
Experience tactile design and printing with Elia Life Technologies and San Francisco’s LightHouse for the Blind and Visually Impaired.
Experiment with programmed materials with innovators from MIT’s Self-Assembly Lab.
Admission is free, but advanced registration is requested. Refreshments will be available for purchase.
