RESEARCHING, RECONSTRUCTING & REIMAGINING 200YRS OF WEARABLE TECH
"Politics of Patents: Re-imagining citizenship via clothing inventions 1820-2020" is a research project funded by an ERC Consolidator grant [2019-2025].
POPFEST SHOWCASE
Symposium, performance, short film, talks, historic clothing catwalk and “Wearable Utopias” book launch
* NEW BOOK *
Edited by Kat Jungnickel, Ellen Fowles, Katja May & Nikki Pugh
Published by MIT Press
OPEN ACCESS
In interview with: Sky Cubacub (on the cover), Karoline Vitto, Robin Lasser and Adrienne Pao, Dani Clode, Aheda Zanetti, Melissa Fehr, Ester Van Kempen, Nicolas Moser, Leon Baauw, Xuedi Chen and Pedro Oliveira, Emily Roderick and Georgina Rowlands, Sissel Kärneskog, Krista Suh, Helen Storey, Dewi Cooke, Lucy Orta, Samantha Fountain, Amelia Kociolkowska, Romina Chuls, Victoria Jenkins, Abiola Onabulé, Mimosa Schmidt & Debra Rapoport.
WOMEN ON THE MOVE
Short film about the history of inventive women’s sports & activewear
Made by POP + The Adventure Syndicate + Mór Diversity
* NEW *
SPECULATIVE SEWING INVENTORY
A collection of research reconstructions of historic wearable tech
MORE NEWS
POP is an ambitious global investigation of 200 years of patented clothing inventions
Q
– How have clothing inventors attempted to change the world stitch by stitch?
– What kinds of citizens are made possible or re-imagined through clothing inventions?
– Can clothing inventions be read as acts of political resistance, contestation or subversion?
– What might a study of clothing inventions reveal about citizenship in the past, today & the future?
POP PEOPLE
Dr Roselind Sinclair
Collaborator
Nahuel Cano
Collaborator
Dr Julien McHardy
Collaborator
Nikki Pugh
RA/PM
The Adventure Syndicate
Collaborator
Aneela McKenna, Mór Diversity
Collaborator
Patent illustrations from Espacenet, used with permission of the European Patent Office.