POPFest

Our POPFest Showcase at Somerset House featured a historic clothing invention catwalk. It featured 9 models in convertible, multiple, and combinable costumes spanning a century from 1850s to 1960s. Each person was linked to the project in some way -...

POP's new edited book Wearable Utopias: Imagining, Inventing and Inhabiting New Worlds (MIT Press) was launched at POPFest with a panel of special guest speakers: Ben Barry - Dean and Associate Professor of Equity and Inclusion in the School of...

POPFest featured a premiere of Silvia's experimental performance - The ShopLifter's Monologue. It was a 9min piece developed from her PhD research undertaken in a scholarship in the POP research. Silvia has been researching histories of women’s shoplifting from department...

Our POPFest Showcase on Tuesday 17th September was held in the River Rooms at Somerset House, central London. It was timed to coincide with London Design Week and we ran a series of events throughout the week. We had a...

Part of the POPFest Showcase featured a display of the POPLab. We could not invite everyone to the POPLab at Goldsmiths, so we brought as much of the POPLab to the River Rooms as possible. The aim was to showcase...

  Our recent Speculative Sewing Catwalk showcased a collection of POP’s research-based reconstructions of historic patented costumes. ALL are convertible. These incredibly inventive designs span over a century, with the earliest being an inflatable rubber tube hoop skirt patented in...