The Museum’s award-winning, nationally recognized education programs encourage students and teachers to see themselves as designers in their own right as they engage in the design process through active observation, discussion, strategies for visual communication, and critique. Design enthusiasts—professionals and non-professionals alike—are served through lectures, conferences, concerts, symposia, design studio visits, New York City walking tours, regional day trips, and workshops. All teachers who participate in our professional development programs create standards-based lesson plans available on our Educator Resource Center.

A City of Neighborhoods

A City of Neighborhoods invites a variety of community leaders—teachers, architects, civic leaders, and others—to work together to extend the classroom into the community and apply design education to a neighborhood context. City of Neighborhoods is being used by teachers in New York City, Philadelphia, New Orleans, Louisiana, and Edcouch, Texas.

https://www.cityofneighborhoods.org

Summer Design Institute

For one week every summer, educators and designers are invited to join an international roster of renowned designers and design educators as they share strategies for engaging K-12 students in the design process. Summer Design Institute features hands-on workshops and keynote presentations that connect the school curriculum with the world beyond the classroom.

https://www.summerdesigninstitute.org