RESEARCHING, RECONSTRUCTING & REIMAGINING 200YRS OF WEARABLE TECH

"Politics of Patents: Re-imagining citizenship via clothing inventions 1820-2020" is a five year research project funded by an ERC Consolidator grant [2019-2024].

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POP is an ambitious global investigation of 200 years of patented clothing inventions

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Q

– What might clothing inventions reveal about hegemonic norms and beliefs?
– 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?
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POP PEOPLE

POP RA/ PM

Ellen Fowles
RA/PM

POP PI

Dr Kat Jungnickel
PI
Dr Roselind Sinclair
POP Collaborator
Nahuel Cano
POP Collaborator
Dr Julien McHardy
POP Collaborator

POP PhD

Silvia Bombardini
PhD

POP Design RA

George Kalivis
RA
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RECENT NEWS

Conferences, Publications

‘The Enemy has Many Faces’

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Ideas, Methods, Team, Workshops

And the Sewing Begins!

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Methods, Workshops

Welcome to the POP Lab

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Masks

Masks from the Past

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Masks

A (brief) History of Masks

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Masks

POP Digital Mask filter – development

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Publications

Speculatively sewing historic clothing patents

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Talks

Video: Public lecture by Prof. Shahidha Bari

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Team

Cosplay & the Significance of Clothing

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Workshops

POP + COPIM collaboration

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Interviews

Inventor Interviews II

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Team

Expanding POP team

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Interviews

Inventor Interviews

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Analysis

Adaptive Clothing: What is it and Who is it For?

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Jobs

NEW job

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Interviews

Calling for Interviewees

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Talks

Lecture & Masterclass by Prof Shahidha Bari

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Conferences

4S 2021 Conference Open Panel CFP

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Analysis, Conferences, Masks

Some Thoughts on the FACE OFF Symposium

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Analysis

I spy with my little eye…

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Analysis

Advisory Board #1

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Conferences, Masks

Symposium: FACE OFF

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Analysis

Sporty Bodies & Wearable Tech

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Analysis

The politics of male underwear

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Analysis

Clothing the “Perfect” Mother?

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Analysis

Dressing Desire

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Analysis

A Time-Travellers Pocket: What secrets do 200 years of pockets hold?

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Analysis

The Politics of Underwear: Chasing the moving nipple

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Analysis

Beaches, Bodies & Bathing Couture: Who gets to show off what & where?

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Team

The Shoplifter’s Clothes: Technologies for a Feminist Practice

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Analysis

The ‘evil’ that is the corset

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Analysis

Care, surveillance & the monitoring of childhood

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Analysis

Policing & the Politics of Protection

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Analysis, Masks

We have been inventing PPE for centuries. But who gets protected?

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Analysis

Learning, Living & Feeling with BIG Data

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Analysis, Methods

POP data – where does it come from?

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Emerging research themes

EXPANDING citizens
SECRET citizens
PISSING & LEAKING citizens
ACTIVE citizens
INVISIBLE citizens
MULTISPECIES citizens
WORKING citizens
SELF - DEFENDING citizens
SURVIVING citizens
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Patent illustrations from Espacenet, used with permission of the European Patent Office.