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Artist, digital ethnographer and Director of the Design and Creative Practice ECP Platform

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Senior lecturer, Department of Design Faculty of Arts

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Artist and senior lecturer, School of Arts and Communication

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Poet, writer, ethnographer of futures, and interdisciplinary senior lecturer in energy and society in the School of Geosciences

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Lecturer in queer history and cultural historian of sexualities and the queer past focusing on twentieth-century Britain

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The POP team have been busy interviewing an incred

A reminder about the new POP Post-Doc position. Co

A reminder about the new POP Post-Doc position. Come and join us to research, reconstruct and re-imagine amazing clothing inventions. Please share widely and get in contact with any questions. Deadline is next week - 12th April. Info and how to apply in link above

#postdoc #sewing #inventions #clothing #socialscience #patents #archives #research

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How has the perception of disability and impairmen

How has the perception of disability and impairment changed over the last 200 years?

Does clothing have the power to enable, disable and label people?

We’re currently exploring clothing inventions designed with people with disabilities in mind. You can find out more in our new POP blog post: Adaptive Clothing, What is it and Who is it for?

This patent is a fastening guidance system from Australia. It’s designed to ease and quicken the dressing process by using different tactile indicators to match buttons to buttonholes.

Many, many thanks to everyone we have spoken to about this subject. Including Victoria at @unhidden_clothing for her incredible insights!

#AdaptiveClothing #Invention #Buttons #PoliticsOfPatents #DisabilityRights

Image Description: A black line drawing on a white background of four buttons and buttonholes in a line. Each pair of button/buttonhole has a different shading.

:: There’s a new job at POP :: 2 yr PD starting

Calling inventive clothing makers, hackers and des

Calling inventive clothing makers, hackers and designers…

POP are interviewing clothing inventors from all over the world.

Please get in touch if you are interested in showing and sharing your inventive practice and creative clothing.

Feel free to DM us through Instagram/Twitter or reach out via the POP website Contact page (link in our bio)

#PoliticsOfPatents #Interview #Clothing #Inventors #Designers #Hackers #Makers

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Please join @katjungnickel + @laurawattswords @unm

Please join @katjungnickel + @laurawattswords @unmakingstudio Åsa Ståhl & Kristina Lindström for discussions about the book Transmissions: critical tactics for making and communicating research in a COLLABORATIVE FUTURE-MAKING | Online Seminar on today - Thurs 4th 1-3pm CET.

We’ll show & tell stories of transmissions from our own research – incl poetry, costumes and sewing, manuals & more. We hope participants will also show & share creative practice research.

Free and all welcome

https://mau.se/en/calendar/cfm-transmissions/

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The draping course continues. Moving into skirts n

The draping course continues. Moving into skirts now: pencil and box pleat. Lots of great practice and thick description in material + talk + notes: “watch how the material travels”, “think of it like origami”, “take the idea and play around with it”, “happy accidents happen all the time”
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#DressMaking #PatternCutting #Draping

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POP is very pleased to be co-hosting (with Methods

POP is very pleased to be co-hosting (with Methods Lab) a public lecture and postgrad masterclass by Professor @shahidhabari - writer, academic and critic and author of Dressed: The Secret Life Of Clothes.

The lecture explores emergent approaches to the study of material culture, thinking specifically about the sensory study of dress. Placing the study of dress in the philosophical tradition of phenomenology, it asks “How do objects yield concepts?”

The masterclass focuses on how academics express ideas in writing. It considers the effects of different styles and forms, reflecting on how to adapt research for knowledge exchange and public engagement and exploring the art of the essay.

Free and all welcome. Wednesday 24th March 10.00 and 16.30 GMT. For more information and to register a place see the link above.
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#clothes #inventions #clothingstudy #dress #materialculture #newmaterialism #methods #creativewriting #storytelling #writing

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Please join us at the 2021 4S conference this year

Please join us at the 2021 4S conference this year (in Toronto and online). POP, together with super clever colleagues, are co-chairing an Open Panel: “Un/Making a Difference: the possibilities of extra-ordinary acts of mundane resistance in unequal and uncertain worlds”.

This open panel explores small and modest acts of resistance, ‘acts of citizenship’ (Isin and Nielson 2008) and enactments of ‘citizenship from below’ (Sheller 2014). These are socio-political methods, practices and performances and identities, made, claimed and negotiated on many scales, including sensory and embodied mundane daily practice. While often small and mundane, these acts and enactments can make a big difference.

We welcome individual and collective, inventive and speculative practice research and experimental multi-media presentations using audio-visual, objects, material and performance.

CFP deadline is March 8.

Read the full abstract and conf theme info at the POPblog (link above)

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The POP team get to develop new skills as part of

The POP team get to develop new skills as part of the project. @katjungnickel has been doing a “Draping on the Stand” course, which involves moulding, smoothing, pinning, cutting fabric to fit the body then translating it onto paper. It’s turned into a remote course (via Teams) rather than studio-based (sadly), but it still works and probably means there’s even more talk about sculpting, negotiating and working with multi-material dimensionalities as everyone attempts to do it in practice in their own homes. #DressMaking #PatternCutting #Draping

Image Description: Images of a dressmaking body form with calico bodice pieces pinned onto it in various configurations.

POP is very pleased to welcome Ellen Fowles to the

We loved learning about astronauts' helmets, flu v

We loved learning about astronauts' helmets, flu veils, hybrid heads and much more at last week's online symposium Face Off: The Provocations and Possibilities of Masks and Head Converings organised by @mcrfashioninstitute . You can read more about it and our POP presentation in our latest blog post (link in bio).

#PoliticsOfPatents
#FaceOffSymposium
#Masks
#HeadCoverings
#Clothing
#FashionStudies

Photo credit: @alexiby

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POP are looking fwd to presenting at 'FACE OFF: Th

POP are looking fwd to presenting at 'FACE OFF: The Provocation & Possibilities of Face Masks & Head Coverings' symposium (13/14) hosted by the Manchester Fashion Institute. @katjungnickel & @kamaquilts will be 'Unmasking the inventive socio-histories of face coverings'. Free to attend. See POP Twitter for link

Image Description: Face off: the provocation and possibilities of masks and head coverings. 13-14 January 2021. A beige background with illustrations of masks, veils and helmets.

A slightly dystopic take on Christmas - our last b

A slightly dystopic take on Christmas - our last blogpost for 2020 is about children & surveillance (link above). We ask: How do (some) kids clothing patents conceal surveillance as “entrainment” & “fun”?

#patent #invention #clothing #children #surveillance #ElfOnTheShelf

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What can sport clothing inventions tell us about t

What can sport clothing inventions tell us about the changing nature of citizenship? New POPblog post (link above)

#sport #sports #sportswear #clothing #invention #patents #LineDrawing

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The team at POP have been busy interviewing an incredible variety of inventors, menders and activists. Learn more about this process in our latest POP blog post. #PoliticsOfPatents #Interviews #Inventors
https://www.politicsofpatents.org/2021/04/29/inventor-interviews/

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