Feed: Designing public breastfeeding
Elaine Speight
Reader in Curatorial Practice and Place at UCLan
Vicky Carr
Founder Textbook Studio
Curator Elaine Speight and graphic designer Vicky Carr will discuss the role of design in shaping attitudes towards breastfeeding in public. Describing the processes involved in creating a public, multimedia feeding chair (available to experience at Ikon gallery during the festival), as part of their project ‘Feed’, they will explore how breastfeeding debates connect to wider issues of visibility, (dis)comfort and whose bodies have the right to take up space.
Speakers
Elaine Speight
Reader in Curatorial Practice and Place at UCLan
Elaine Speight is Reader in Curatorial Practice and Place at the University of Central Lancashire, where she co-curates the In Certain Places public art programme and is co-director of the Institute of Creativity, Communities & Culture.
Elaine’s research surrounds the politics of public space: who gets to make decisions about how our cities are managed and designed and how artists can help us to reimagine and reclaim our environments. Since becoming a mother in 2017, Elaine has become particularly interested in the experiences of parents. She developed the Feed project to promote inclusive, sustainable approaches to infant feeding and public space and to challenge negative social attitudes towards human milk and mothering.
Elaine is a trustee of the Cumbria-based arts organisation Art Gene and co-editor of the Journal of Arts & Communities.
Vicky Carr
Founder Textbook Studio
Vicky is a graphic designer and educator based in Manchester, UK.
She is co-founder of Textbook Studio, a multi-disciplinary creative practice focused on design and art direction for Arts & Culture sector clients.
They design books, exhibitions, identities, packaging + websites for artists, galleries, organisations, businesses + people.
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