- More film festivalsWomen On the Move, our short film collaboratively made with The Adventure Syndicate and Mór Diversity has been shortlisted for two more international adventure film festivals. WOTM film was shortlisted to appear at the 2024 Ladek Mountain Film Festival, held...more
- POP + Smithsonian + USPTOPOP is very happy to announce an upcoming collaboration with The Smithsonian’s Lemelson Center for the Study of Invention & Innovation and The United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) in Feb in Washington. Together we are running a series...more
- POPFEST Speculative Sewing CatwalkOur POPFest Showcase at Somerset House featured a historic clothing invention catwalk. It featured 9 models in convertible, multiple, and combinable costumes spanning a century from 1850s to 1960s. Each person was linked to the project in some way -...more
- POPFest book launchPOP's new edited book Wearable Utopias: Imagining, Inventing and Inhabiting New Worlds (MIT Press) was launched at POPFest with a panel of special guest speakers: Ben Barry - Dean and Associate Professor of Equity and Inclusion in the School of...more
- The Shoplifter’s MonologuePOPFest featured a premiere of Silvia's experimental performance - The ShopLifter's Monologue. It was a 9min piece developed from her PhD research undertaken in a scholarship in the POP research. Silvia has been researching histories of women’s shoplifting from department...more
- POPFest ShowcaseOur POPFest Showcase on Tuesday 17th September was held in the River Rooms at Somerset House, central London. It was timed to coincide with London Design Week and we ran a series of events throughout the week. We had a...more
- POPFest Studio ShowcasePart of the POPFest Showcase featured a display of the POPLab. We could not invite everyone to the POPLab at Goldsmiths, so we brought as much of the POPLab to the River Rooms as possible. The aim was to showcase...more
- POPFest RehearsalOur recent Speculative Sewing Catwalk showcased a collection of POP’s research-based reconstructions of historic patented costumes. ALL are convertible. These incredibly inventive designs span over a century, with the earliest being an inflatable rubber tube hoop skirt patented in...more
- Swedish STS conferenceI was invited to give a shared keynote and workshop at the annual Swedish STS conference hosted by the Departments of Technology and Social Change (TEMA T) and Gender Studies (TEMA G) at Linköping University. It was held at the...more
- POPFest Symposium – Wearable UtopiasWEARABLE UTOPIAS HISTORIES + FUTURES + FABULATIONS as pedagogy? as spatial practice? as tools of resistance? as sites of political struggle? as creative experiments in futuring? as doings of queer dis-identification? as extra-ordinary acts of citizenship? - - - -...more
- Hephæstus SymposiumEarly in May (2-4/5) I had the opportunity to attend an innovative itinerant symposium called “The Economy and Organisation of Craft” run by an ERC Horizon project HEPHÆSTUS, directed by Marta Gasparin and the Swedish team is led by Elena Raviola....more
- Image-Maker in ResidenceThis month we were pleased to participate in the Sociological Review Foundation's Image-Maker in Residence programme. It is a "monthly showcase of creative work by practitioners from diverse backgrounds and disciplines that puts visual sociology in the spotlight". POP took...more
- NGO CSW (Commission on the Status of Women) Forum at the UNPOP are incredibly pleased that our collaborative short film "Women On The Move" about hidden histories of inventive women's sportswear, has not only been selected to appear at the 2024 Socially Relevant Film Festival (SRFF) but they have also chosen...more
- Swedish STS KeynoteI am delighted to be invited to keynote at the Swedish STS annual Science & Technology Conference hosted by the Technology & Social Change (TEMA) and Gender Studies at Linköping University. I am joined by Laura Watts who is giving...more
- Women On The Move promo film posterWe have been preparing promotional materials to support the Women On The Move showing at various film festivals. It's exciting to see the number of laurels growing at the top!more
- Film FestivalsPOP is thrilled to be shortlisted to appear at international film festivals. Last year we were at Kendal Mountain Film Festival. This year we have been selected for three more events (so far). A few more are pending, so watch...more
- Kendal Mountain Film FestivalPOP was very pleased to hear our collaboratively made short film Women on the Move - about the forgotten histories of inventive women's sport and activewear - was shortlisted to appear at the 2023 Kendal Mountain Film Festival (KMFF). The...more
- Pockets of Power on tourPOCKETS of POWER is a 20min cabaret show about the remarkable histories of pocket inventions and their inventors from the POP research. These stories are brought to life by award-winning feminist theatre company Scary Little Girls, with Becca Morden, Naomi...more
- Glastonbury 2023POP is collaborating with feminist theatre company Scary Little Girls and writer and performer Dr Naomi Paxton + five other very talented actors to showcase POP research at this year's Glastonbury Festival. Together we are making a 10min family show...more
- Podcast – GarmologyI was recently invited onto the Garmology podcast hosted by Nick Johannessen. I talked about about the history of patented clothing inventions, creative lesser-known inventors and speculative sewing practices. I referenced not only the POP project but also research undertaken...more
- IWD press coverageThe "Women On The Move" film and research article "Convertible, multiple and hidden: The inventive lives of women’s sport and activewear 1890–1940" were launched on International Women's Day - 8th March 2023. The research received national, regional and specialist coverage in 235...more
- IWD: Film + article launchPOP launched a collaborative film and journal article about historical women's sport and active wear on International Women's Day. Both bring to life inventive treasures in the archive that point to how persistently creative, brave and resilient girls and women...more
- Curzon film screening picsLots of great pictures (and some video) were taken to capture the launch screening of the "Women On The Move" film, Q&A and costume demo's. It looks like the audience enjoyed it as much as all of us on stage....more
- New article: Convertible, multiple & hidden sportswearWe have a new article in Sociological Review journal. Open Access PDF available here. Convertible, multiple and hidden: The inventive lives of women’s sport and activewear 1890–1940 Abstract: Who gets to be ‘sporty’ and active in public is an enduring topic...more
- “Women On The Move” Film launchFILM SCREENING, Q&A + COSTUME DEMO'S Thursday 2nd March, 6pm-9pm Curzon Bloomsbury The Brunswick Centre, London WC1N 1AW - MAP FREE - but you'll need a ticket Tickets available HERE. ----------------------------- Hosted by POP With: POP - Kat Jungnickel The...more
- SSA – Speculative Sewing ArchiveThe POP team have been hard at work this year researching, reconstructing and re-imagining 200 years of clothing inventions from the European Patent Archives. Our practice research involves stitching together theory, methods and making into three-dimensional arguments. So far we...more
- Listening to the archivePOP recently travelled to Utrecht to collaborate with COPIM's Julien McHardy and sound maker Nahuel Canu on a musical piece in which we set out to listen to the archive. Together we made a score for sewing machines, sampler and voice...more
- POP + The Adventure SyndicatePOP is very excited to be collaborating with The Adventure Syndicate to make a film about historic women's activewear from the patent archives. We've been running, jumping, climbing, swimming, hiking, cycling, flying, horse-riding, kicking, catching, throwing, leaping and otherwise putting...more
