Name: Experience Cafe
Start: 2018-04-18T18:30:00-04:00
End: 2018-04-18T20:30:00-04:00
Location: Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum

Experience Cafe

Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum

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:
 
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Explore flavor perception with designer Emilie Baltz and scientists from the Monell Chemical Senses Center.
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Discover connections between taste, music, and chocolate with designer-scientist Bruno Mesz (UNTREF, STSEAS UNQ) and confectionary wizard Jonathan Grahm, Compartés Chocolatier.
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Discover how perfume is designed with experts from International Flavors & Fragrances (IFF).
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Experience tactile design and printing with Elia Life Technologies and San Francisco's LightHouse for the Blind and Visually Impaired.
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Experiment with programmed materials with innovators from MIT’s Self-Assembly Lab.
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Admission is free, but advanced registration is requested. Refreshments will be available for purchase.
 
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