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].
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
POP Collaborator
Nahuel Cano
POP Collaborator
Dr Julien McHardy
POP Collaborator
Nikki Pugh
RA/PM
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