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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

Goldsmiths strike starts today at 8am and there’

Goldsmiths strike starts today at 8am and there’s a full day of events, an opening rally and teach-outs.

The POP team stand in solidarity with Goldsmiths colleagues taking industrial action over the next 3 weeks protesting highly valued admin & academic staff redundancies, lack of transparency in the process, role of banks in universities, stealth cuts, precarious contracts + + + #NoJobCuts #GoldStrike

ID: two colourful graphics listing a range of activities - GoldStrike Opening Rally at noon and creative teach-out sessions all day

See @goldsmithsucu and @katjungnickel for more info and pics of the daily action

We’re sharing a few snaps of our research into t

We’re sharing a few snaps of our research into the Winthrop #BicycleSkirt. The team are having a great time “making things to make sense of things” in the POP Lab. We are having fittings to see how these garments feel on real bodies. This invention is made from medium weight calico and it features two side plackets, a removable front apron and a gathered back skirt/cape.

Image Description: 1. A woman is standing up in the middle of a studio, another woman is kneeling down behind her, pinning a fabric calico skirt. 2. A close up shot of the calico fabric skirt, with hands pinning pleats onto the waistband. 3. A wider shot of the pleated calico skirt with a woman altering the bottom left of the fabric.

#Invention #ClothingFitting #POPLab #STSReconstructions #Trouser #Skirt #Cape #Satchel #Cycling #Walking #Mountaineering #Multiple #MakingThingsToMakeSenseOfThings

Here you can see some of our material thinking, fi

Here you can see some of our material thinking, fitting and pattern drafting processes as we make sense of the convertible elements of this patent. It can take a while to RESEARCH + RECONSTRUCT + REIMAGINE data from patent documents and related archival research into a physical 3D garment (especially when it splits into three pieces!)

Image Description: 1. A wooden table with a calico fabric shape, a neon coloured paper document and some dressmakers tools. 2. A smiling woman wearing a calico fabric cape, you can see the back of her head and also her front in a mirror. 3. A mirror with a woman wearing a colourful top and a calico fabric full skirt. Another woman is kneeling on the floor and pinning the skirt.

#PatternCutting #Fitting #CalicoToile #MakingThingsToMakeSenseOfThings #InventiveMethods

One of the first garments we made was a “Bicycle

One of the first garments we made was a “Bicycle Skirt” patented in 1895 by Alice Winthrop. It’s an incredible invention made up of three separate items 1. wide-leg trousers, 2. a cape and 3. a satchel.

The invention is not only for cycling, but also for walking and mountaineering. It aimed to give wearers flexibility to choose where and when they engaged in different activities. It features multiple fastenings and construction details to make a seemingly ordinary skirt fit for a range of extraordinary activities and social constraints.

Image Description: 1. A black line drawing on a white background of a skirt, trousers, an apron, a cape and a satchel hooked over bike handles. 2. A wooden table with a maroon fabric weight and a rectangular paper pattern piece. 3. A woman wearing a cream jumper sits by a table covered in dressmakers tools. In the background is an office with thread hanging on the wall, desks and an open window.

#PoliticsOfPatents #PatentOfTheWeek #BicycleSkirt #ClothingReconstruction #STSMakingAndDoing #POPSpeculativeSewing #OrdinaryAndExtraordinary

We have been busy in the POP Lab over the last cou

We have been busy in the POP Lab over the last couple of months and we’re excited to start to share some of our making process with you. Get ready for pins and unpicking, fittings and pattern cutting and of course a lot of neon!

ID: 1. A woman wearing a green sweater vest lifting up a calico hood and smiling. 2. A woman with short brown hair cutting fabric on a table, in the background is a wall of design tools. 3. Two women wearing masks and posing with stretched arms, there is a table, ironing board, boxes of fabric and boards with notes in the background.

#PoliticsOfPatents #WearableTechnology #ClothingReconstruction #POPSpeculativeSewing #MakingThingsToMakeSenseOfThings #STSReconstructions #MakingAndDoing #Inventions #InventiveMethods #Patents #Clothing

Our POP interview series is growing and we’ve ha

Our POP interview series is growing and we’ve had the pleasure of speaking to some fantastic people.

From workwear to prosthetics and wearable architecture to sustainable accessories, we’ve met with over 40 different designers who are pushing the boundaries of what clothing can be.

Head over to the POP blog to read more about our Inventor Interviews (Linktree in bio).

The designers are all tagged in the image and the top right work is by #EldinaBegic

#PoliticsOfPatents #Inventor #Interview #ClothingStudies #ClothingResearch

Image Description: a grid of 8 portrait images showing various different innovative clothing and accessories.

Digitally “try on” #POPMasksFromThePast! A sel

We would like to invite you to test out our #POPMa

The final mask spotlight is this “Fireproof Garm

The final mask spotlight is this “Fireproof Garment” – patented in 1892 by Betsy J. Martin.

It features a “combined mask and cloak especially adapted for use by ladies and children.”

It was made entirely out of asbestos for its fire-retardant properties… (don’t try this at home).

Head on over to the POPBlog to read more about the historic masks included in the digital filter.

#PoliticsOfPatents #DuckFace #FireproofGarment #POPMasksFromThePast #Invention

Image Description: A black line drawing on a white background of a full head mask that has duck features with a pleated cloak.

The second mask we’re highlighting is this Holid

The second mask we’re highlighting is this Holidaymaker “Sun Shield for the Nose” – patented in 1912 by Jules J. Maurice.

It was designed to be used by “persons who travel in hot countries” to avoid “burning their features”. It can be “very easily carried in a pocket” and is illustrated here attached to a pair of eye-glasses.

Head on over to the POPBlog to read more about the historic masks included in the digital filter.

#PoliticsOfPatents #SunShield #POPMasksFromThePast #HolidayMaker #Invention

Image Description: A black line drawing on a white background of a pair of glasses with a lower portion to cover a nose.

To celebrate the launch of our POP Mask Filter we

To celebrate the launch of our POP Mask Filter we have chosen a few of the masks to talk about for #PatentOfTheWeek

The first is a “Fan Mask”, patented by Paul Eschenbach in 1903. It intends to “greatly change the appearance of the face from its natural condition.” It comes in a “varied number of configurations … to produce designs of greater or less disguising effect.”

Head on over to the POPBlog to read more about the historic masks included in the digital filter.

#PoliticsOfPatents #FanMask #POPMasksFromThePast #MaskedBall #Invention

Image Description: A black line drawing on a white background of a person with an oval shaped mask hanging below their nose.

Today is the launch of our very own POP Mask Filte

POP stickers! Samples just arrived and we’re pre

POP stickers! Samples just arrived and we’re pretty happy with the results 🌈

ID: two sheets of colourful squares with the word POP in the middle

The POP team had an ace time visiting a few exhibi

The POP team had an ace time visiting a few exhibitions last month. Here is a round up of our continued #BodiesInArt series.

We were delighted with Sophie Taeuber-Arp’s puppets and Anicka Yi’s AI scented aerobes at the Tate Modern.

The Science Museum and the V & A’s Alice exhibition were also really animated experiences.

Image Description:
1. Four image grid of four people in different exhibition spaces.

2. A 12 second video of floating robots in a concrete building.

3. A woman running wearing a mustard jacket running down a concrete slope.

4. A white wall with multicoloured grid stained glass windows.

5. A woman wearing a blue coat and maroon scarf standing in front of a museum display.

6. A woman with her arms raised looking up at two old fashioned cars.

7. A woman with curly hair and orange trousers standing in a circle of light.

8. A woman stood in front of a black and white wavy wall wearing a matching jumper.

9. A display with various wooden puppets hung up.

#PoliticsOfPatents #ScienceMuseum #V&A #TateModern #Research #Inventors

We’re back with the latest #PatentOfTheWeek - ah

We’re back with the latest #PatentOfTheWeek - ahead of COP26 this weekend, we’re sharing a “Sting-Proof Bee-Veil” from 1916.

It was patented by Emma M. Strout in Maine, USA and has been adapted for use by apiarists to protect their face and neck when working with bees. It comprises of a “relatively rigid open-work tubular head portion” made of wire fabric with a “flexible upper extension” to fit the crown of a hat.

The billowing shirt is made of a light weight canvas and is secured tightly around the wrists and hem to “effectively exclude” any bees from entering the suit.

#PoliticsOfPatents #COP26 #BeeKeeper #Uniform #ClimateChange #ClothingInventions

Image Description: A black line drawing on a white background of two top garments side by side. They both have puffy sleeves and a mesh head visor, the image on the right also has a face and a hat.

Politics Of PatentsFollow

The POP team stand in solidarity with Goldsmiths colleagues taking industrial action over the next 3 weeks protesting admin & academic staff redundancies, lack of transparency in the process, role of banks in universities, precarious contracts + + #NoJobCuts #GoldStrike

Goldsmiths UCU@GoldsmithsUCU

SIX things you can do to help our #Goldstrike dispute for #NoJobCuts at @GoldsmithsUoL ! (THREAD)

1. DONATE to our strike fund to help us take sustained action https://goldsmithsucu.org/donations/strikefund/ 1/6

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One of the first garments we’re making is this “Bicycle Skirt” patented in 1895 by Alice Winthrop. It features multiple different fastenings and construction details in order to make this seemingly ordinary skirt appropriate for different sports and social constraints.

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