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TEAMKatFebruary 20, 2020June 11, 2021

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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

Today’s #PatentOfTheWeek is a Bust Support for P

Today’s #PatentOfTheWeek is a Bust Support for People of Both Sexes by Agnes Fleischer from 1903. It features “a system of ribbons” wrapped in various angles around the torso to ensure “the body is obtained, without suffering”. It can be “adjusted exactly for each body shape”

A fantastic example of radical unisex design from over 100 years ago. Shouldn’t clothing move beyond the binaries of traditional menswear and womenswear?

Image Description: 6 black line drawings on a white background of the upper half of a body wearing a strappy garment.

#PoliticsOfPatents #PrideMonth #Unisex #Invention

The POP team have been working together in the POP

The POP team have been working together in the POPLab at Goldsmiths. We’re slowly getting it set up. There’s lots of paper on boards, talk about ideas and list making. Soon we’ll be sewing.

#patentlab #invention #patent #ideas #qualitativemethods #practiceresearch #sewing #makingthingstomakesenseofthings

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POP are looking forward to welcoming Adele to the

POP are looking forward to welcoming Adele to the team next week. She is joining us as a new Postdoctoral Fellow and brings her social research and qual methods training, interests in cosplay, sewing skills and experience running arts & music public engagement activities. Read more about her (and the team) on the POP website. Link above.

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Hurrah! The POP team are back in the building! We

Hurrah! The POP team are back in the building! We are over the moon to be back in our Lab on the Goldsmiths campus.

This #PatentOfTheWeek reflects our new working routine. It’s a Lunch-Receptacle and Muff patented by Sarah A. Cuningham in 1882. Intended for ‘’ladies who are employed as shop-girls, sewing-girls, sales-women and the like’’ this multifunctional accessory can both carry your lunch and warm your hands with hot tea or coffee... (not needed as much in London’s current heat)

This neat and compact device can be ‘’ornamented to suit different tastes and manufactured at prices to suit all classes.’’

#PoliticsOfPatents #BackToWork #LunchBox #Inventors #Inventions #LineDrawing #Patents

Image Description: a black line drawing on a white background of the front and side view of a handbag. The front has a raised square panel and the side has an open slot in the centre.

The POP team have been exploring inventions that b

The POP team have been exploring inventions that blur the lines between human and non-human. Our multi-species research theme covers a range of topics from biomimicry to ‘common cyborgs’. We have found some extra-ordinary patents that question, unsettle and reframe our relationship with other species and the environment.

This #PatentOfTheWeek is a Streamlined Diving Suit by Otto Walter Neumark from 1958. It has an “overall hydrodynamic shape” that “resembles somewhat the dorsal fin of a porpoise”. Referring to the outer protective layer as a “skin”, this invention aimed to offer the wearer a different experience of underwater worlds.

#PoliticsOfPatents #DivingSuit #BioMimicry #inventors #inventions #linedrawing #patents #underwater #diving

Image Description: A black line drawing on a white background of a mans figure inside a whale shaped diving suit.

Introducing the POP #PatentOfTheWeek We wanted t

Introducing the POP #PatentOfTheWeek

We wanted to share with you some of the odd and astonishing inventions we are coming across in the archive.

Starting in 1970 with this Carry-All Hat by Maureen McGuire & James Neckermann. It’s been adapted to hold “removable objects such as cosmetics, jewellery, medication and the like.”

This hat enables women to store/hide small essential or valuable items on top of their head. Freeing up their hands without the need to carry a purse. Just think of all the things they could get up to!

#PoliticsOfPatents #HatBag

Image Description: Black line drawings of two women’s side profiles wearing square hats with bobbles and ear muffs. Below are drawings of two hats with their lids raised showing hidden items inside.

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

Image Description: patent line drawing of a man in an old fashioned neck-to-knee swimming costume floating in the sea

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

Image Description: Images of a dressmaking body form with calico skirt pieces pinned onto it in various configurations and messy material, pins, scissors and tape measure on the floor

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 are back together! Working remotely online has been productive but we are super happy to be offline for a change. And we’re slowly getting the POPLab set up. So far there’s lots of paper on boards, talk about ideas & list making. Soon we’ll be sewing 🧵 🪡

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Today we celebrate not only the 10,000th grantee, but also all scientists and scholars funded by the ERC over the years. 🎉 We are so proud of their contributions to research!

As we can't describe them all today, don't hesitate to share your own #ERC10kGrantees success story!

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