{"title": "Director’s Talks: Maria Nicanor in Conversation with Mattaforma, 2026 National Design Award Winner, Emerging Designer", "start": "2026-11-16T18:00:00-05:00", "end": "2026-11-16T19:30:00-05:00", "place": "Cooper–Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum", "address": "East 91st Street 2, New York", "price": "$25 Adult, $10 Museum Member, $12 Educator, Senior, Student, Visitors with Disabilities", "price_from": "25.00", "price_to": "25.00", "category": "talks-readings", "tags": ["art/design"], "description": "A one-on-one talk at Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum between museum director Maria Nicanor and Mattaforma, winner of the 2026 National Design Award for Emerging Designer, part of a monthly Director's Talks series with this year's award winners. Mattaforma is a New York–based architecture and research studio founded by Lindsey Wikstrom that redefines sustainable design through mass-timber innovation and healthy materials. The studio's projects begin with field research into nearby forests, quarries, and farms, creating classrooms, homes, and community venues designed for disassembly and reuse. The program, held in the museum's wheelchair-accessible Carnegie Library with live CART captioning, features a moderated conversation followed by an optional audience Q&A.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/new-york/events/directors-talks-maria-nicanor-in-conversation-with-mattaform-52203/", "official_url": "https://www.cooperhewitt.org/event/directors-talks-maria-nicanor-in-conversation-with-mattaforma-2026-national-design-award-winner-emerging-designer-11-16-2026/", "image": "https://noky.io/images/144621317ced7ab1dc4b742648ebad1aa33ee46c377f2677b38363ac4a1f1510-2000.webp", "dates": [{"start": "2026-11-16T18:00:00-05:00", "end": "2026-11-16T19:30:00-05:00", "place": "Cooper–Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum", "address": "East 91st Street 2, New York", "tickets": ""}], "similar": [{"title": "Koichi Takada and Daniella Ohad: Design, Nature, and the Future", "start": "2026-11-11T18:00:00-05:00", "end": null, "place": "Museum of Arts and Design", "address": "Columbus Circle 2, New York", "price": "$25 general, $20 members", "price_from": "25.00", "price_to": "25.00", "category": "talks-readings", "tags": ["nature/environment/sustainability", "art/architecture"], "description": "A talk at the Museum of Arts and Design exploring design, sustainability, and architectural culture through a conversation between architect Koichi Takada and design historian Daniella Ohad. The dialogue draws on Takada's second monograph, Koichi Takada: Naturalizing Architecture, which presents his nature-led architecture as a regenerative model for the future. Copies of the book will be sold at The Store at MAD, with a signing by Takada after the talk.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/new-york/events/koichi-takada-and-daniella-ohad-design-nature-and-the-future-54036/", "official_url": "https://www.madmuseum.org/events/koichi-takada-and-daniella-ohad-design-nature-and-future", "image": "https://noky.io/images/99206882eb5bf5ce0c9c6814b33f4114ebeb6cf5704d620263e4f4bbaaf8aa54-2000.webp"}, {"title": "Dark Matter U: Justice, Pedagogy, Design", "start": "2026-10-01T00:00:00-04:00", "end": "2027-03-27T00:00:00-04:00", "place": "Center for Architecture", "address": "LaGuardia Place 546", "price": "", "price_from": null, "price_to": null, "category": "exhibitions-museums", "tags": ["art/architecture", "society/racism"], "description": "Dark Matter U: Justice, Pedagogy, Design is an exhibition by and about the Dark Matter U network, the first BIPOC-led transdisciplinary network in the built environment. It was initiated after the 2020 movement for Black Lives to enact systemic change across the design fields, changing how we gather, teach, and produce design. The show is curated in three parts: recording past DMU work, documenting current efforts, and a provocation for the future. It is curated and produced by a Dark Matter U network team, co-led by Venesa Alicea-Chuqui, Jerome Haferd, and Sophie Weston Chien.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/new-york/events/dark-matter-u-justice-pedagogy-design-51771/", "official_url": "", "image": "https://noky.io/images/af5462535782d1e55ca5d0c599e99fe6604d19b83bf4bdb94d66665abb2c77bb-2000.webp"}, {"title": "With an Acre — An Afternoon with the CCA", "start": "2026-11-07T15:00:00-05:00", "end": null, "place": "e-flux", "address": "172 Classon Ave, Brooklyn, NY 11205, USA", "price": "General $12, Student $10", "price_from": "12.00", "price_to": "12.00", "category": "film", "tags": ["art/architecture", "film/documentary"], "description": "An afternoon of film and conversation hosted by the Canadian Centre for Architecture, returning to the e-flux Screening Room. It features a screening of With an Acre, the third chapter in the Groundwork series conceived and produced by the CCA, which follows the conceptual development and field research of architects exploring alternative modes of practice in an age of ecological crisis. The film, introduced by Joshua Frank, follows architect Carla Juaçaba as she develops a museum and community space in solidarity with a collective of smallholder farmers in Minas Gerais, Brazil, resisting extractive industrial agriculture. A conversation with Lukas Brasiskis, Nick Axel, Francesco Garutti, and Ella den Elzen follows, exploring the use of film as a tool for curatorial research.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/new-york/events/with-an-acre-an-afternoon-with-the-cca-52438/", "official_url": "https://www.e-flux.com/events/6783401/with-an-acre-mdash-an-afternoon-with-the-cca/", "image": "https://noky.io/images/49d720f1703c7fecd010bef0a6a84282bfeb94fa959a1ea1757b6233c0397f8b-2000.webp"}, {"title": "HOW WE MAKE: BIOGLASS WITH FAN KONG", "start": "2026-11-05T16:30:00-05:00", "end": "2026-11-05T18:30:00-05:00", "place": "Cooper–Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum", "address": "East 91st Street 2, New York", "price": "", "price_from": null, "price_to": null, "category": "workshops-courses", "tags": ["art/crafts"], "description": "A hands-on workshop at the design museum exploring the language of materials through bioplastics and bioglass. 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Participants learn to make kitchen-friendly bioplastics, visit the galleries, and create their own stained bioglass samples.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/new-york/events/how-we-make-bioglass-with-fan-kong-52198/", "official_url": "https://www.cooperhewitt.org/event/how-we-make-bioglass-with-fan-kong-11-05-2026/", "image": "https://noky.io/images/0e848d246f256dd5d74f18686a8c6e2da119fe27d8efb4a49df1c14b5b90247b-2000.webp"}, {"title": "John Procario: Freeforms", "start": "2026-10-27T00:00:00-04:00", "end": "2027-04-04T00:00:00-04:00", "place": "Museum of Arts and Design", "address": "Columbus Circle 2, New York", "price": "", "price_from": null, "price_to": null, "category": "exhibitions-museums", "tags": ["art/design/furniture-design"], "description": "An exhibition of light sculptures and furniture by designer John Procario, titled John Procario: Freeforms, at the Museum of Arts and Design. Procario twists strips of ash wood into sinuous, ribbon-like forms, embedding LEDs discreetly to create the illusion of endless movement. His Sculpted Sofas designs follow the shape and direction of each freeform wood base. The works emerge from an organic, intuitive process honoring nature's natural curves.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/new-york/events/john-procario-freeforms-54043/", "official_url": "https://www.madmuseum.org/exhibition/john-procario-freeforms", "image": "https://noky.io/images/13f1228541b586abd282dd1f420ea793fe0ad5cceec06608e06017279d0580e3-2000.webp"}, {"title": "Culture of Place", "start": "2026-11-05T18:00:00-05:00", "end": null, "place": "Van Alen Institute", "address": "Bond Street 303, 11231", "price": "Free with RSVP", "price_from": "0.00", "price_to": "0.00", "category": "talks-readings", "tags": ["society/urbanism"], "description": "Culture of Place is a public conversation on how architecture can support community organizations that give people places to gather and a voice in their neighborhoods' futures. It is presented by the Van Alen Institute, an architecture and design nonprofit based in Gowanus, Brooklyn, through its Van Alen Vanguard network of emerging design leaders. Architect Farida Abu-Bakare joins designer, artist, and educator Curry J. Hackett and architect Tura Cousins Wilson of the Studio of Contemporary Architecture (SOCA) to explore how design can sustain local cultural life while responding to changing community needs. Drawing on their practices and perspectives on Black cultural memory, they will examine what architects can learn from people already doing the work of building community.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/new-york/events/culture-of-place-57339/", "official_url": "", "image": "https://noky.io/images/4365a4c136c0c0b94778d78397882a3c6b0f222b9a9bbec42cf06d31d07622bb-1200.webp"}]}