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TEAMKatFebruary 20, 2020June 11, 2021

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ADVISORY BOARD MEMBERS

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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

PAST POP TEAM

Reflecting on a busy past week… We had a great

Reflecting on a busy past week…

We had a great time visiting the @wellcomecollection and the @vagina_museum. Various exhibits from ‘Joy’ to ‘Period Myth Busting’ - with the incredible work of @sam.daw.ood and @celiapym.

We also took another visit to the @goldsmiths_lib Archives and were treated to a fantastic display of treasure! Including photographs of 19th century Goldsmiths women’s hockey teams and 18th century “Industrial Genius” patent documents!

Image Descriptions:
1. A woman wearing a yellow shirt, orange trousers and white backpack standing in front of a photograph of a person dancing upside down on a yellow wall.

2. A grey wall with a white border and inside are multicoloured socks in a grid with embroidery on them.

3. A woman wearing a green printed top standing in front of a blue information board with plants in the distance.

4. A large tampon or “glampon” sculpture with red sequins for blood. The background is half brick and half white wall.

5. A long wooden table with cushions and old books/documents spread all over it. A woman in a striped jumper and mask stands behind it reading.

#PoliticsOfPatents #Exhibition #VaginaMuseum #WellcomeCollection #Archive #Research #Invention #BodiesInArt

This is just the start of the neon! We’re look

This is just the start of the neon!

We’re looking forward to playing with colour and texture more in our research development. It will be hard to miss!

Image Description:
1. Lots of rolls of brightly coloured neon fabrics standing up against a wall.

2. A woman wearing a magenta top staring at a wall of brightly coloured graphics.

3. A wooden table with paper strips with written text that have been highlighted.

#PoliticsOfPatents #Neon #ColourPalette #Bright #FabricSourcing #WoolcrestTextiles #WellcomeCollection #JoyExhibition #Invention #Research

Another busy week for the POP team. Fantastic visi

Another busy week for the POP team. Fantastic visits to the LSE Women’s Library, @goldsmiths_lib Special Collections and Fabian’s Haberdashery.

Image Description:
1. A woman crouched down in between two walls of buttons and trimmings.

2. A woman smiling wearing a maroon jumper holding open a bike bag with neon green thread inside.

3. A trolley of old brown books with a woman standing at a table in the distance.

4. A woman wearing a navy cardigan sitting at a wooden table with her phone, reading a book.

5. Inside of a haberdashery store with boxes of trimmings piled up high, a woman wearing an overcoat crosses things of a list with a pen.

#PoliticsOfPatents #FabiansHaberdashery #LSEWomensLibrary #GoldsmithsLibrary #Research #Inventions #MaterialSourcing

We’ve had a busy start to the week at POP. Archi

We’ve had a busy start to the week at POP. Archive visits, data exploration workshops and sewing practice.

Plenty of new approaches to research, reconstruct and reimagine the last 200 years of wearable technology.

Hopefully we don’t get lost in the books and our hair caught in the overlocker!

Image Description:
1. A woman wearing a mask and a green printed top sitting in the distance between two stacks of old brown books.

2. Three women sitting around a table with laptops, papers and water bottles.

3. A woman with brown curly hair threading a grey overlocker sewing machine.

#PoliticsOfPatents #GoldsmithsUniversity #InventiveSociology #Methods #Citizenship #Patents #Inventors #Inventions #Clothing #WearableTech

Today’s #PatentOfTheWeek is a ‘G’ Conditioni

Today’s #PatentOfTheWeek is a ‘G’ Conditioning Suit, patented in 1969 by NASA’s Clinton E. Brown and Ralph W. Stone Jr.

It’s designed for space travellers to be used as a “gravity simulation device”. The suit structure applies decreasing pressure from the astronaut’s head to their feet. These pressure tubes control the flow of blood in their body “to accomplish the result gravity has on the cardiovascular system.”

It was crucial that this wearable technology was portable, lightweight and integrated into a fabric bodysuit seen in Fig. 2.

Image Description: 2 black line drawings on white backgrounds. The first image is spiralled tubes in the silhouette of a head, torso, arms and legs. The second image shows a full bodysuit with tubes horizontally inserted from the ankles to the chest.

#PoliticsOfPatents #SpaceTravel #GSuit #Astronaut #Gravity #Clothing #WearableTechnology #Inventor #Patent

Sewing has started in the POPLab! POPs PhD stude

Sewing has started in the POPLab!

POPs PhD student, Silvia @silviabombardini, experimented with a toile for a 1913 pocket garter. It’s exciting to see ideas translated across time and material. Much more of this to come ⚡️⚡️

Image description: a woman sits at a sewing machine and stands at a large table covered in paper and material scraps

#reconstruction #sewing #invention #patent #toile

Today’s #PatentOfTheWeek is a Bathing Stocking i

Today’s #PatentOfTheWeek is a Bathing Stocking invented by Elizabeth N. Douglass in 1882.

Instead of wearing shoes or slippers that will “soon become filled with sand” and “otherwise exceedingly inconvenient.” These water stockings protect people’s feet from injury from “small stones, pebbles or gravel abrasions and even incisions by sea-shells.”

The design features “the soles and a portion of the sides of the foot covered with india-rubber" to wear at “seaside resorts.”

It’s interesting to compare this illustration with contemporary barefoot walking shoes…..

Image Description: A black line drawing on a white background of a side on view of a foot. Behind it is a drawing of a leg, cut off just above the knee. It that has a pair of tights on with a dark sole.

#PatentOfTheWeek #Bathing #Stockings #Tights #Beach #Sand #Protection #Invention #PoliticsOfPatents #FemaleInventor

This #PatentOfTheWeek is an “Aerial Life-Saving

This #PatentOfTheWeek is an “Aerial Life-Saving Device” invented by John E. Thoroughgood in 1918.

The suit is “under the operative control of the arms, whereby the aviator can effect the equilibrium of their descent feet foremost.” It seems to suggest that the wearer can control their speed by the angle of their arms keeping the panels taut.

The cape, skirt and legs are made of strong, flexible materials, as to not be “bundlesome” on the wearers body when inflated with air.

Image Description: a black line drawing on a white background of a person standing with their arms stretched out and legs apart. They are wearing a suit with three layers of fabric that are catching the air.

#PoliticsOfPatents #AerialLifeSaver #Parachute #Patent #Inventor #Aviator #FlyingSuit

This #PatentOfTheWeek is a Women’s Sleeve Protec

This #PatentOfTheWeek is a Women’s Sleeve Protector, invented in 1905 by Helen Gardner.

It features an entirely open top, where “full sleeves of women’s garments may project, thus avoiding crushing them.”

It also has two adjustable straps at the elbow bend, to accommodate the wearer during “deskwork.”

Image Description: a black line drawing on a white background of a bending arm, with two half-sleeve covers underneath.

#PoliticsOfPatents #WorkWear #SleeveProtector #WomensWork #Uniform #Invention

This #PatentOfTheWeek is a “Combined Ladies Over

This #PatentOfTheWeek is a “Combined Ladies Overall and Sporting Costume” from 1909.

It was designed for women “occupied in mountaineering, tobogganing and cycle sport”.

A real all-in-one piece that can adapt for different stages of the journey. The wearer could arrive at their destination with the appearance of a skirt, and then transform the garment for all weather activities.

It offered women choice, freedom and flexibility to engage in lots of different sports.

It will be interesting to compare this to the various Olympic and Paralympic uniforms worn in Tokyo.

Image Description: black line drawings on a white background of a full dress/coat that is sketched five times with different sections of the garment opening and moving.

#PoliticsOfPatents #SportsUniform #EverydaySports #Olympics #Paralympics #Invention #Clothing

This is the backyard to the POPLab. Right now, on

This is the backyard to the POPLab. Right now, on sunny days, we get to lunch out here. Hoping to run some workshops and open house/lab events out here in the near future too 🤞🏼

Image description: 4 people sit eating lunch on very green grass in a yard edged with trees and shrubs.

POP was very pleased to host a public lecture (and

POP was very pleased to host a public lecture (and master class) by Professor Shahidha Bari @shahidhabari earlier this year. It was called “Experiments in Breathing: New approaches to material culture”. It was a fantastic talk and she generously gave permission to record it. The video is up on the POPblog. [Link above]

#publiclecture #materialculture #breath #politics #art #research #clothing #inventions

Image description: graphic featuring title of talk and logos of POP, Methods Lab and the ERC

There’s a new piece out about the POP project. “Speculative sewing historic clothing inventions” by @katjungnickel in the July/Aug INTERACTIONS magazine, “Making & Breaking” section. See the POPblog (link above)

Image description: Abstract colourful shapes on the magazine front cover and snippet view of the article - text and a patent drawing illustration

The next collection of ‘Bodies in Art’ is out!

The next collection of ‘Bodies in Art’ is out!

The POP team had a great time visiting what seemed like ALL of the exhibitions in West London a couple of weeks ago.

Here we are blending in to work at the Design Museum, the Mosaic Rooms and the V&A.

#BodiesInArt #MatchyMatchy #ArtExhibition #Research #PoliticsOfPatents

Image Description: 4 women posing in front of various art pieces with matching coloured/patterned clothing

Shewees for the team! We had the pleasure of speak

Shewees for the team! We had the pleasure of speaking with @sam_shewee earlier this year. And now we have this brilliant 20yr old design in (nearly) all the colours

Image description: 4 x Shewees - plastic devices to enable women to urinate standing up. Two are in packaging and an orange and blue one sit on top.

Politics Of PatentsFollow

We had the pleasure of speaking to @ProfHelenStorey about the #CatalyticClothing project this morning. A collision of fashion and chemistry to purify the air we breathe. @pvcryan @SociologyGold #Inventor #Interview #ClothingResearch #AirPollution #FutureMaking

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Neon research in the POP Lab visiting the @ExploreWellcome and @WoolcrestTextil #Sewing #Development #Neon #ColourPalette #Invention

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