What People Talk About When They Talk About "Design Life Now"

You’d think it was called the Kidrobot Design Triennial by the way reviewers latched onto its toy-as-sculpture as the smooth plastic face of the exhibition. (It’s even the image Cooper-Hewitt features on the website.) But the customizable Dunny/Munny and the collector culture surrounding it does seem to encompass the show’s themes: community, interaction, do-it-yourself design, transformation, and, in its own weird way, biomimicry.