Announcing the Cooper Parlor: A public salon series exploring design's impact on the world

Cooper Parlor is a periodic gathering of designers and design-minded people to exchange ideas around a specific topic. We aim to cultivate conversation that instigates, surprises, entertains, and most importantly, broadens our community's collective knowledge and perspective about the potential for design. For some, our salons are an informal university that stokes their desire to learn and contribute to a larger conversation. For others, these gatherings are a place to push design boundaries, exploring what more is possible. Whatever your motive, you are invited to join in the dialogue. We ask that each participant bring an open-ended question or statement related to the salon topic. We'll throw those juicy conversation starters in a hat, pick one, and the dialogue will begin...