EP 62: Designing Motherhood, Part 2 | Michelle Millar Fisher & Amber Winick

Did you know that a graphic designer created the first
over-the-counter pregnancy test? How did giving birth become
medicalized? What does culturally appropriate care look like?
Michelle Millar Fisher has worked as an educator, curator, and
historian in universities and museums including the Museum of
Modern Art, the Philadelphia Museum of Art, the Guggenheim, and the
MFA Boston where she is currently the Wornick Curator of
Contemporary Decorative Arts. Her work focuses on the intersections
of people, power, design, and craft. She has co-authored many
books, essays, and exhibitions including Design and Violence and
Items: Is Fashion Modern?  Amber Winick is a mother and design
historian. She holds an MA in Design History, Decorative Arts, and
Material Culture from the Bard Graduate Center, and a BA in child
development and anthropology from Sarah Lawrence College. She has
received two Fulbrights, and has lived and researched maternal and
child-related designs, policies, and practices around the world.
She has expertise in the designed systems, environments, and
objects that empower (and disempower) us, particularly around
birth, family leave, caregiving, schools, and early childhood.