Methods

  • Methods, Publications
    SSA – Speculative Sewing Archive
    by Kat|17 November 2022
    The POP team have been hard at work this year researching, reconstructing and re-imagining 200 years of clothing inventions from the European Patent Archives. Our practice research involves stitching together theory, methods and making into three-dimensional arguments. So far we...
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  • Ideas, Methods, Team, Tools
    POP Toolkit
    by Ellen|30 October 2022
    Here at POP, we rely on a variety of different materials and tools to support us in our multi-disciplinary research. We’ve written before about the POP Lab, setting it up and our collaborative work here. But this blog post goes...
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  • Ideas, Methods, Team, Workshops
    And the Sewing Begins!
    by Adele|24 January 2022
    Over the last 6 months things have been progressing here at the POPLab. The team has started creating many of the exciting garments we have unearthed from the archive, and as a result the Lab has transformed from a bland...
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  • a sewing workshop with two women working
    Methods, Workshops
    Welcome to the POP Lab
    by Ellen|17 January 2022
    We want to invite you into our world at POP! This blog post will give you a taste of our working studio, located at Goldsmiths University campus in London. We realise that not many people can physically come and visit...
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  • Analysis, Methods
    POP data – where does it come from?
    by Kat|10 July 2020
    "Writing is a movement of imagination. On the page we take our readers to places, often to situations where our research has led us, to things we have seen and people we have listened to." - Les Back This blog...
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