What Is Nordic Design: Iceland

Speakers

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  Sigríður Sigurjónsdóttir

  Sigríður Sigurjónsdóttir is the director of The Museum of Design and Applied Art in Iceland. In 2010 she founded the design gallery/incubator Spark Design Space introducing over 30 new design projects over a period of six years. 

  Bio
  

  Sigríður Sigurjónsdóttir

  Sigríður Sigurjónsdóttir is the director of The Museum of Design and Applied Art in Iceland. In 2010 she founded the design gallery/incubator Spark Design Space introducing over 30 new design projects over a period of six years. 

  Most of the projects being a collaboration with former students and colleagues from the Iceland Academy of the Arts where she worked as Professor and Program director of Product Design from 2005 – 2012. Her main emphasis during this time was on a project called Designer and Farmers. The novelty of the project entailed bringing together one of the oldest profession in the country, farmers, and one of the youngers profession, product designers.

  Sigríður completed a BA in Three Dimensional Design from Surrey Institute of Art & Design and MA in Design Studies from Central Saint Martin’s College of Art and Design in London with emphasis on new technology and personals space. From 2000 – 2004 she worked in London and Amsterdam as interactive ideas creator. Among clients were Intel, BBC and Channel4. During her time in Amsterdam she also taught at the Rietveld Academy a course called Death of the browser.

  Apart from working with fun and talented people Sigriður enjoys riding, skiing and wild swimming preferably with a sauna close by.

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  Michelle Millar Fisher

  Michelle Millar Fisher is currently the Ronald C. and Anita L. Wornick Curator of Contemporary Decorative Arts at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston. Her work focuses on the intersections of people, power, and the material world. 

  Bio
  

  Michelle Millar Fisher

  Michelle Millar Fisher is currently the Ronald C. and Anita L. Wornick Curator of Contemporary Decorative Arts at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston. Her work focuses on the intersections of people, power, and the material world. 

  At the MFA, she is working on her next project, “Craft Schools: Where We Make What We Inherit” which took her on a train journey across all 48 contiguous US states, as well as the upcoming contemporary collection reinstallation called “Tender Loving Care.” As part of an independent team, she leads “Designing Motherhood: Things That Make and Break Our Births,” a book, touring exhibition, and series of programs. Find it on Instagram at @designingmotherhood.

  The recipient of an MA and an M.Phil in Art History from the University of Glasgow, Scotland, she received an M.Phil from and is currently completing her doctorate in art history at The Graduate Center at the City University of New York (CUNY). She is widely published, and has received numerous fellowships, including from the Pew, Sachs, and Graham Foundations, and DAAD.

  Previously, she was The Louis C. Madeira IV Assistant Curator of European Decorative Arts at the Philadelphia Museum of Art where she co-organized “Designs for Different Futures” in 2019. From 2014-2018 she was a Curatorial Assistant at the Museum of Modern Art, New York, where she co-organized, among other exhibitions, “Design and Violence” and “Items: Is Fashion Modern?”

  In 2011, she co-founded ArtHistoryTeachingResources.org, a Kress Foundation-funded project now used in over 185 countries. In 2019, she co-founded Art + Museum Transparency, home to the Salary Transparency Spreadsheet. She was part of the 2022 fellow cohort at the Center for Curatorial Leadership.