Designing Motherhood
Designing Motherhood: Things That Make and Break Our Births is a book by Amber Winick and Michelle Millar Fisher (MIT Press/Penguin Random House, 2021). Designing Motherhood is also a public programming series and an internationally touring exhibition, which will be coming to its eighth and ninth venues in the US and Europe in 2027.
“Designing Motherhood is a beautifully designed book that incorporates astonishing images from the weird and sometimes disturbing history of the engineering of objects, drugs, garments, and material and social structures designed to support and control maternal bodies…If you read one book about parenting and birth this year, this should be it.”
The Designing Motherhood exhibition will be travelling to its eighth and ninth venues in the US and Europe in 2027
The Designing Motherhood exhibition grounds local design stories within larger histories by working with local researchers, curators and Community Advisory committees. Reach out if you’re interested in learning more from the show’s travelling curators.
Venue: Museum of Arts and Design, New York City
On view: 4 October, 2025 - 15 March, 2026
Images by Jenna Bascom/nyceventphotography courtesy of Museum of Arts and Design
Venue: ArkDes, the Swedish Centre for Architecture and Design in Stockholm, Sweden
On view: 24 September, 2024 - 31 August, 2025
Venue: Houston Center for Contemporary Craft, Houston, Texas
On view: 9 November, 2024 - 15 March, 2025
Venue: The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation Discovery Center, Seattle.
On view: 14 February - 30 December, 2023
Venue: Mass Art Museum (MAAM), Boston.
On view: 11 June - 18 December, 2022
Venue: Center for Architecture and Design, Philadelphia.
On view: 10 Sept – Nov 14, 2021
Venue: Mütter Museum, Philadelphia.
On view: 1 May, 2021 – 8 May, 2022
