What shapes us, makes us who we are?
Nature, nurture and the environment.
Caregivers
Balance your needs with your children’s, and find more joy and fulfilment in the process.
Professionals
Incisive writing, scholarship and creative consulting from a subject matter expert on the design landscape of care.
Amber Winick has spent her whole career immersed in design, birth and child development, . She works hand in hand with parents and young children to uncover the profound in everyday life.
links the pleasure of food with a commitment to community and the environment
She is a writer, an author, a coach and group facilitator, and an independent design historian.
She’s also a mother of three, New Yorker living in London, co-housing enthusiast, crafts novice, avid thrifter and nature lover.
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) and an internationally touring exhibition.
“Designing Motherhood 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.”
-Melena Ryzik, The New York Times
CURRENT EXHIBITIONS
About my services
Linking memory and experience, design history, culture and care, my written work sparks new pathways for storytelling and connection.
A little support goes a long way. For individuals + families, in-person and online.
Warm, supportive cohort-based Play Groups for families of infants and toddlers.
Is your project in need of a visionary strategist/content expert to help grow or pivot your mission?
