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TEAMKatFebruary 20, 2020October 22, 2020

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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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This website documents the "Politics of Patents: Re-imagining citizenship via clothing inventions 1820-2020" research project led by Dr Kat Jungnickel, funded by a European Union Horizon 2020 ERC Consolidator Grant #819458 and located at Goldsmiths, University of London.

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

NEW JOB ALERT. Work with the POP team! We are looking for a Research Assistant/ Project Manager to join the European Research Council funded “Politics of Patents” project. It's FT for 2 years - starting Feb 2021. You’ll do research on amazing inventions, sew and make things, manage the POPLab and help put on events. Info in link above. Please share widely!

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

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

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 💡

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

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).

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.

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)

How do clothes inventors conceal, reveal or otherw

How do clothes inventors conceal, reveal or otherwise deal with the nipple? What can these changing concerns and anxieties over time tell us about the changing nature of citizenship? New POPblog post on “The Politics of Underwear: Chasing the moving nipple” (link above)

#inventions #inventors #clothes #underwear #citizen #bodies

(Pic by Victoria Strukovskaya on Splash)

Another swimming invention. This is a 1932 French

Another swimming invention. This is a 1932 French patent by Teresina-Maria Negri for a swimsuit suitable for heliotherapy.

Heliotherapy was a popular practice in the 1930s promoted by physicians in Europe and North America. It heralded the benefits of exposure to the sun for people’s health.

This invention used “lace, embroidery, tulle or the like, on all or part of its surface, so to allow the passage of the sun's rays while concealing the shapes and protecting the epidermis”.

The aim was to secure “the benefits of heliotherapy, while respecting the rules of decency”.

We think it would also have produced quite amazing tan lines!

#swim #swimming #swimsuit #tanning #inventions #design #patent #linedrawing #illustration

This week we are farewelling our research assistan

This week we are farewelling our research assistant @claudiadgf. She is leaving the POP team to start a fully funded PhD at Birkbeck. It’s been a huge pleasure having her in the team. Her hard work, proactivity and enthusiasm (esp over the last few strange months) have been formative in POPs early development and although we are all sad to see her go, we are also super proud of her and looking forward to hearing about her ongoing research. We know she will do amazing things. (And we also plan on involving her in future POP events.) Here she is in her office (first visit in months in order to clear it out 🙁) - but she assures us is she’s smiling under her mask 😷🙂👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼

This new POPblog post looks at changing #invention

This new POPblog post looks at changing #inventions for #swimwear over time. What kinds of active bodies are welcome in public spaces? What is framed as beautiful and healthy? What does the “ideal” summer citizen look like? How has it changed over time and what role have clothing inventors played?

This is a 1914 US invention by Mary E. Street. It is made up of multiple substantial pieces of clothing including a shirt, pair of bloomers, a skirt as well as tights.

#swimming #swimsuit #invention #patent #tanning #sun #linedrawing #illustration

This 1908 petticoat by Lena Sittig, a prolific inv

This 1908 petticoat by Lena Sittig, a prolific inventor from Brooklyn US, has “a continuous exterior pocket along its lower portion”. It’s formal purpose was to protect the edge of the wearer’s outer skirt from rain or mud. But, it is possible this secret pocket was put to a different use...

Read more about “The Shoplifter’s Clothes: Technologies for a feminist Practice” - new POPblog post (link above).

#linedrawing #patent #pocket #inventions #shoplifting #skirts #archive #victorian #women #stealing #crime #clothes #design #secret

What did the C19th shoplifter wear? Little has bee

What did the C19th shoplifter wear? Little has been written about the shoplifter’s clothes, despite the key role they must have played. Can the clothing patent archive reveal insights into this political and subversive act? New POPblog post - see link above for more

#linedrawing #patent #inventions #shoplifting #skirts #archive #victorian #women #stealing #crime #clothes #design #secret

How would you feel in this #corset substitute? Pre

How would you feel in this #corset substitute? Pretty strapped in? But at a closer look this #patent allows for the straps to be adjusted, which was a novel #invention in 1894.

#linedrawing #illustration #patents #invention #corset #comfort #womenshistory

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NEW JOB ALERT. Work with the POP team! We are looking for a Research Assistant/ Project Manager. FT for 2 yrs starting Feb. You’ll research amazing inventions, sew & construct incredible costumes, manage the POPLab and help us run events. Apply at: https://tinyurl.com/y26ou93u

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Here at POP, some of the team have been exploring the clothing patent archive for ideas about caring & childcare. What can 200yrs of clothing inventions reveal about the gender politics of care & responsibility? New POPblog: Clothing the “perfect” mother?http://www.politicsofpatents.org/2020/10/21/clothing-the-perfect-mother/

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