June 2021

  • Cosplay & the Significance of Clothing
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    One of the great things about Politics of Patents is our multidisciplinary team, as each member of POP holds a unique perspective which allows us to consider our research in a variety of ways. As the latest member to join...
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  • POP + COPIM collaboration
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    POP are pleased to announce a collaboration with COPIM (Community-Led Open Publishing Infrastructures for Monographs Project). It is an open access book project experimenting with what a Data Book could look like. It probes how texts relate to the archive, and how digital tools complicate...
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  • Inventor Interviews II
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    We have completed 35 interviews to date with clothing inventors, hackers, makers and menders around the world. This map shows the breadth of coverage so far. We've been speaking with new and established clothing inventors, hackers, makers and menders Our...
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  • Expanding POP team
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    The POP team is very pleased to welcome Adele Mason-Bertrand to the project as a Postdoctoral Research Fellow. She has a PhD in Sociology from the University of Sheffield and has been working as a qualitative researcher at the Royal...
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