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TEAMKatFebruary 20, 2020January 26, 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

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

Image Description: A person wearing a black T-shirt whose face is covered with a reflective metallic mask. The background is a water fountain.

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

Image Description: A smiling toy elf wearing a red and white Christmas hat and a red top with a white collar. The background is blurred Christmas lights.

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

Image Description: A black line drawing on a white background of different body postures with arrows pointing at various sections with letters and numbers.

New POPblog post on the inventive history of men’s underwear. While the world is watching two powerful white men battle it out in the US, we go under the surface to explore a range of performances and embodiments of masculinity in the intimate sphere 🩲 (Link above)

#pants #underwear #masculinity #invention #patents

Image Description: A line up of four male toy superhero’s with brightly coloured costumes. The background is a brick wall.

NEW JOB ALERT. Work with the POP team! We are look

During and following the (first) lockdown in March

During and following the (first) lockdown in March, there has been much discussion over childcare. Specifically, debates centred around what the ‘staying at home’ policy and the closure of schools meant for both children and those caring for them. We’ve been exploring the patent archive for ideas about caring, specifically childcare. What can the history of clothing inventions reveal about the politics of care and responsibility? New POPblog: Clothing the “perfect” mother? - see link above

#patent #inventions #clothing #caring #childcare #motherhood #lockdown #research

Image Description: A black line drawing on a white background of a women’s torso with a garment that has an adjustable breast section to cover a breastfeeding babies head.

We’ve been exploring intersections of clothing,

We’ve been exploring intersections of clothing, sexuality and citizenship - asking: What role do clothing inventions play in shaping (enabling, constraining & organising) who and how people desire? Lots of fascinating emerging ideas - #1 for eg is an 1870 “Self Protector” to help prevent masturbation. #2 is a 2013 “Hygienic Masturbation Glove”. More in a new POP blogpost (link above)

#inventions #inventor #clothing #LineDrawing #illustration #patent #desire #sexuality #erotic

Image Description: 1. A black line drawing on a white background of an unclothed person wearing a striped waist belt. 2. A black line drawing on a white background of a glove with a bumpy texture.

Lots of action this week in the POPLab. We’ve ha

Lots of action this week in the POPLab. We’ve had to move inside a bit more with the rainy weather, and (socially distant) board work is helping us make sense of the data - clustering themes, mapping across time and getting excited about ideas 💡

Image Description: A woman is sitting on a carpet, in front of her are various cork boards featuring lots of different paper print outs of text and images with post it notes scattered around.

Can we map citizens by their pockets? Not in ter

Can we map citizens by their pockets?

Not in terms of what is IN their pockets (though this is super interesting too) but by the changing shape, positionand purpose of pockets.

Are there really that many pockets?

How many different kinds of pockets have there been?

Can we travel through time in pockets?

What can they tell us about changes in roles and responsibilities, travel, mobility, gender relations, power and politicsover time?

It turns out a LOT. (New POP blogpost - link above)

#pockets #PickPocket #inventions #design #clothes #clothing #patent

Image Description: Fig 4, Fig 5. A black line drawing on a white background of one man pickpocketing another man with a sword in the air.

POP had a few days in the office this week - well,

POP had a few days in the office this week - well, out of the office. Lots of paper was moved about and ideas made. It was really great and super productive to work together (even in this socially distanced way).

Image Description: Two people sitting in a sunny and shady garden with three white chairs that are spaced apart in a triangle. They are looking at white paper documents on the grass.

POP had its first socially distanced social recent

POP had its first socially distanced social recently. Really wonderful to see each other off screen. In typical 2020 style, it wasn’t just one thing - it was a hello AND a goodbye. We were meeting each other in person for the first time and also farewelling a team member, our RA, @claudiadgf who is off to start her PhD. All the best Claudia! We look forward to seeing and hearing from you often.

Image Description: Five people smiling at a camera whilst having a picnic on wooden tables. In the background is a grey industrial setting with red and white tape.

Can a focus on the nipple as bodily materiality he

Can a focus on the nipple as bodily materiality help us to think of a more embodied concept of citizenship that resists the model of the female body in need of control and possession and thus of women as lesser citizens? How can we think with and expand the concept of sexual citizenship, first termed by David Evans to denote that “citizens have genders, sexualities, and bodies that matter in politics” (1993) by chasing the nipple globally, across 1000 patents and over 200 years? (More in the link above)

Image Description: A black line drawing on a white background of a woman’s torso wearing a bra with a removable nipple section.

Politics Of PatentsFollow

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Call for papers is open! We welcome submissions for our #4S2021 panel: "Un/Making a Difference: The possibilities of extra-ordinary acts of mundane resistance" with @laura4lano @StinaLinds @_eliberry Åsa Ståhl, Carl di Salvo - https://www.4sonline.org/198-un-making-a-difference-the-possibilities-of-extra-ordinary-acts-of-mundane-resistance-in-unequal-and-uncertain-worlds/

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We enjoyed being part of #faceoffsymposium @McrFashionInst discussing all things masks and head coverings. You can find out more about it and our #politicsofpatents presentation in our latest blogpost: https://www.politicsofpatents.org/2021/01/19/some-thoughts-on-the-face-off-symposium/

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