Designing Motherhood: Michelle Millar Fisher in Conversation with Jiabao Li

🌟 Who designs motherhood? Explore how objects, medical systems, technologies, and cultural expectations shape our experiences of menstruation, pregnancy, birth, postpartum life, and care.

🎨 This hybrid event features curator and design historian Michelle Millar Fisher in conversation with artist Jiabao Li, presented in conjunction with Jiabao Li’s solo exhibition Womb Wetware.

📚 Michelle Millar Fisher, Chief Curator at Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum, will provide an illustrated introduction to "Designing Motherhood: Things That Make and Break Our Births," an award-winning book and international touring exhibition that explores human reproduction through the lens of design. Co-founded by Fisher and Amber Winick, the project highlights over 150 years of reproductive design via medical instruments, breast pumps, contraceptive devices, maternity clothing, baby monitors, contemporary artworks, and more.

🔗 Following this, Fisher and Li will link Designing Motherhood with Womb Wetware, which considers the reproductive body as ancient wetware: intelligent, leaky, erotic, and alive. Their discussion will delve into how motherhood is designed, medicalized, represented, and regulated, while addressing how artists and designers can illuminate its invisible technologies, labor, pleasure, grief, and contradictions.

📍 Join in person at tiat Gallery in San Francisco or online via Zoom.
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👩‍💼 Michelle Millar Fisher is a prominent curator with a focus on the intersections of design, architecture, craft, and care work.

👩‍🎨 Jiabao Li is an innovative artist, inventor, and professor, known for exploring feminist biotech and multispecies intelligence.

For more details and registration, visit: Designing Motherhood Event