Free workshop led by architectural designers to test small-scale changes to public spaces for feeding and caring for babies and young children, part of the public art project Feed.
Care Fix is back at The Harris on Monday 9 November, the final session of a series that ran through October. It's a workshop led by architectural designers Ecaterina Stefanescu and Sam Eadington, and it's free to attend.
Care Fix is part of Feed, a national public art project by In Certain Places at the University of Lancashire. The whole thing asks a pretty practical question: how can public spaces better support people feeding and caring for babies and young children? At its centre is Feeding Chair, a specially designed chair and collaborative artwork by Jerwood Drawing Prize winner and university alumna Jade de Montserrat. It's built to invite people to feed their babies in museums and other public places, and it comes with an integrated tablet and speakers playing audio works by artists including Preston-based Krissi Musiol and Magda Stawarska.
The project draws on the stigma many mothers still face around breastfeeding in public, and it brings together artists, researchers, parents and communities across midwifery, fashion and textiles, architecture and performance. In the workshops, you'll use creative mapping, model-making and hands-on construction to test small-scale changes to public spaces outside the museum. You don't need any prior design or making experience to take part, and babies and young children are welcome, so you don't have to leave them at home to join in. Refreshments are provided on the day.
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The session runs from 10.30am to 12.30pm on the first-floor balcony of The Harris, and it's free to attend.
