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Michelle Millar Fisher, a curator and architecture and design historian, is Ronald C. and Anita L. Wornick Curator of Contemporary Decorative Arts at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston. She lecture frequently on design, people, and the politics of things. Amber Winick is a writer, design historian, and recipient of two Fulbright Awards. She has lived, researched, and written about family and child-related designs, policies, and practices around the world.
The provocative new book and exhibition series, Designing Motherhood: Things That Make and Break Our Births, makes the case that there is a whole world of objects pertaining to women, mothers and pregnant people that have been overlooked from the perspective of form and function, and unstudied in terms of how their designs came to be. --New York Times Arts Prompting readers to consider how design shapes their own bodies, Designing Motherhood is not just a history but a call to action, an invitation to reflect on how objects, practices, and policies might be redesigned to better serve the diverse experiences of motherhood. --Booklist, STARRED REVIEW A first-of-its-kind exploration of the arc of human reproduction through the lens of design. --The Guardian The book examines more than 80 maternity-related objects and what they say about the experience of motherhood in our culture. At a time when the messy details of caregiving are still largely invisible, these images resonate. --The Boston Globe Joy and trauma exist side by side in Designing Motherhood. --The Lily
