RESEARCHING, RECONSTRUCTING & REIMAGINING 200YRS OF CLOTHING PATENTS
"Politics of Patents: Re-imagining citizenship via clothing inventions 1820-2020" is a research project funded by an ERC Consolidator grant [2019-2025].
* HIGHLIGHTS *
* 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
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SPECULATIVE SEWING INVENTORY
An archive of historic wearable tech research reconstructions
* AI EXPERIMENT *
Speculative Sewing AI
V&A Museum
Do AI technologies assist or limit our design imaginations?
POP invited participants to explore how AI might be used to access, use and re-imagine historic clothing inventions.
The POP AI platform drew on hundreds of past clothing solutions to (try to) solve contemporary clothing problems.
Together we speculatively stitched the past and the future and used the generated designs to explore the use and ethics of these digital tools for design practice.
GLASTONBURY
Pockets of Power! – Theatre performance
A musical and spoken word costume (+ puppet) filled performance about historic clothing inventors and their inventions
Made by POP + Scary Little Girls (Becca Morden) + Ada Campe (Dr Naomi Paxton)
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Patent illustrations from Espacenet, used with permission of the European Patent Office.