Fly Over The Grass

Fly Over the Grass aims to shed light on creative routes into a career in social impact. In each episode, Miranda talks to an inspiring individual working to solve social inequality to find out about the change they want to see in the world, what they do, and how they got there.

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Fly Over the Grass #005 Lisa Mandemaker on the role of design in developing the ethics of new technologies

December 20, 2020 • Miranda • Season 1 • Episode 5

Lisa Mandemaker is a social designer from the Netherlands. After completing a BA in Product Design and an MA at Londons Royal College of Art in Design Products, she has she continued her career in Amsterdam doing design projects centered around the effects, both intended and unintended, of emerging technology. She is interested in design as a tool for debate and makes impactful, topical work that starts conversations on the political, ethical and scientific aspects of emerging technology. Her most recent work has centered around the future of reproductive technologies and her creation of an artificial womb catapulted her into the public eye last year and landed her as one of the BBCs top 100 women of 2019.

In this episode we hear from Lisa about how she rose to fame, the downsides of imposter syndrome and what it’s like to be a designer in a scientific field. See all of Lisa's work on her website www.lisamandemaker.com.

Links to things we chat about in this episode:
- Waag in Amsterdam waag.org
- The Next Nature Network nextnature.net
- Invisible Women by Caroline Criado Perez - penguin.co.uk/books/111/1113605/invisible-women/9781784706289.html

Music by Joe Bush.