Lessons From the Commons to Move From Enclosure to Shared Stewardship

Walthew, Jessica

doi:10.4324/b23092-5

Prioritizing People in Ethical Decision-Making and Caring for Cultural Heritage Collections 2023

DOI: 10.4324/b23092-5

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Lessons From the Commons to Move From Enclosure to Shared Stewardship

Jessica Walthew¹

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Defining Digital Design in the National Collection

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Lipps,

Rogers

2024

Collections: A Journal for Museum and Archives Professionals

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As the national design collection of the United States, Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum in New York City is dedicated to historical and contemporary design with a collection of over 215,000 objects. Since its founding in 1897 as the Cooper Union Museum for the Arts of Decoration, its collection departments have been defined taxonomically by materials. In 2022, the museum created a new collecting department for the first time in its history, acknowledging that Digital collections represent a separate “material.” The introduction of a Digital department stakes a claim that digital design is itself a separate discipline with its own needs of collections management, curation, and conservation. Digital design as both process and product is now pervasive throughout design fields and the collection will continue to grow as the museum strives to represent contemporary design practice. While the museum’s early digital collecting came from a lineage of graphic design and typography, this article discusses the challenges inherent in developing new taxonomies, typologies, classifications, and collections management and preservation processes.

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Defining Digital Design in the National Collection

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Collections: A Journal for Museum and Archives Professionals

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