It’s our honour that Charlie Chair was selected to be part of the exhibition “Designing Motherhood” at the Museum of Arts and Design New York. Being included allows us to contribute to an international conversation on how design shapes parenthood, responsibility and the next generation.
Designing Motherhood: Things that Make and Break Our Births
The exhibition invites audiences to explore how designs have shaped reproductive health over the last 150 years of human history. From fertility, pregnancy, postpartum to parenthood, it includes over 250 speculative design items and projects. Creating a dialogue between culture and well-being by combining art, design and activism.
Charlie Chair was chosen to be a showcase of reusing of discarded plastics and the opportunity to educate children about circular and sustainability. Positioned with a small selection of designs that celebrate for their commitment to sustainability commonly, demonstrate an example of the kind of design that consciously diverges from the consumerist marketing aimed at parents by so many products tied to the care of children.
“To me, Charlie Chair represents a hopeful alternative to
these types of economic and environmental waste.”
— Elizabeth Koehn, exhibition organizer.
This exhibition is part of the Designing Motherhood project, a first-of-its-kind consideration of the arc of human reproduction through the lens of design.
MAD Museum New York
The Museum of Arts and Design (MAD), located in Manhattan, New York City, collects, displays, and interprets objects that document contemporary and historic innovation in craft, art, and design. In its exhibitions and educational programs, the museum celebrates the creative process through which materials are crafted into works that enhance contemporary life.
Founded in 1956 by Aileen Osborn Webb as the Museum of Contemporary Crafts, originally focused on American craft, it became the American Craft Museum in 1979 and adopted its current name in 2002. It moved to its landmarked Columbus Circle location in 2008, designed by Allied Works Architecture.
Photo: ajay_suresh / CC BY 2.0
On exhibition: 
Official Website: https://madmuseum.org/exhibition/designing-motherhood
Read more: Design of the Charlie Chair
Other exhibitions: Young V&A London
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