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This blog documents the developing POP project and the team’s work-in-progress analysis of 200 years of global clothing patent data. We aim to share our workings and thinkings. We ask questions, show examples and share initial ideas and will point to POP events, activities and publications.
Speculative Sewing Inventory – launch
Today we launch our first phase of the Speculative Sewing Inventory. This is an open-access digital archive that documents our...
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NGO CSW (Commission on the Status of Women) Forum at the UN
POP are incredibly pleased that our collaborative short film "Women On The Move" about hidden histories of inventive women's sportswear,...
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Swedish STS Keynote
I am delighted to be invited to keynote at the Swedish STS annual Science & Technology Conference hosted by the...
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Women On The Move promo film poster
We have been preparing promotional materials to support the Women On The Move showing at various film festivals. It's exciting...
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Film Festivals
POP is thrilled to be shortlisted to appear at international film festivals. Last year we were at Kendal Mountain Film...
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Sportswear inventions from the 1890s to the 1940s
POP's first collection of sport and activewear costumes was made for a collaboration with The Adventure Syndicate and Mór Diversity...
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Kendal Mountain Film Festival
POP was very pleased to hear our collaboratively made short film Women on the Move - about the forgotten histories...
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Pockets of Power on tour
POCKETS of POWER is a 20min cabaret show about the remarkable histories of pocket inventions and their inventors from the...
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Record crops and searching the records: digging deep in the archives
Here we return to our case study of Annie Williams, Welsh immigrant to Canada and inventor of a skirt elevator...
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Being ahead of the storm: emigration, invention and settler life
In this first of a series of blog posts we're going to share some of our research relating to one...
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Glastonbury 2023
POP is collaborating with feminist theatre company Scary Little Girls and writer and performer Dr Naomi Paxton + five other...
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Podcast – Garmology
I was recently invited onto the Garmology podcast hosted by Nick Johannessen. I talked about about the history of patented...
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IWD press coverage
The "Women On The Move" film and research article "Convertible, multiple and hidden: The inventive lives of women’s sport and activewear...
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IWD: Film + article launch
POP launched a collaborative film and journal article about historical women's sport and active wear on International Women's Day. Both...
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Curzon film screening pics
Lots of great pictures (and some video) were taken to capture the launch screening of the "Women On The Move"...
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New article: Convertible, multiple & hidden sportswear
We have a new article in Sociological Review journal. Open Access PDF available here. Convertible, multiple and hidden: The inventive lives...
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“Women On The Move” Film launch
FILM SCREENING, Q&A + COSTUME DEMO'S Thursday 2nd March, 6pm-9pm Curzon Bloomsbury The Brunswick Centre, London WC1N 1AW - MAP...
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New article: Masks, PPE and early women motorists
We have a new article in Sociology journal. Open Access PDF available here. From 100-year-old women’s motoring masks to contemporary PPE: ...
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SSA – Speculative Sewing Archive
The POP team have been hard at work this year researching, reconstructing and re-imagining 200 years of clothing inventions from...
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Listening to the archive
POP recently travelled to Utrecht to collaborate with COPIM's Julien McHardy and sound maker Nahuel Canu on a musical piece in...
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POP Toolkit
Here at POP, we rely on a variety of different materials and tools to support us in our multi-disciplinary research....
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POP + The Adventure Syndicate
POP is very excited to be collaborating with The Adventure Syndicate to make a film about historic women's activewear from...
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New article: Speculative Sewing
POP is very pleased to announce a new article out in the journal Social Studies of Science about our practice...
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‘The Enemy has Many Faces’
Insects, Clothing Inventions and Colonial Legacies One of the topics we’ve been exploring at POP concerns how clothing inventions mediate/shape/reflect...
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And the Sewing Begins!
Over the last 6 months things have been progressing here at the POPLab. The team has started creating many of...
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Welcome to the POP Lab
We want to invite you into our world at POP! This blog post will give you a taste of our...
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Masks from the Past
Travel back in time to try out masks from the past The POP team are very pleased to launch the...
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A (brief) History of Masks
As you might have seen in our two previous blog posts, today marks the launch of the POP mask filter. Below...
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POP Digital Mask filter – development
By Ellen & Kat The POP team have been researching and living with (and in) masks in ways we did...
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New article: Clothing inventions as acts of citizenship
A new article on clothing inventions, material participation and acts of citizenship is out in the journal Science, Technology and...
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Speculatively sewing historic clothing patents
Interactions magazine - "Making & Breaking" section Many thanks to the editors of the July/August INTERACTIONS magazine for the invitation to write...
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Video: Public lecture by Prof. Shahidha Bari
POP and Methods Lab were very pleased to co-host a public lecture by Professor Shahidha Bari, in March 2021. Experiments...
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Cosplay & the Significance of Clothing
One of the great things about Politics of Patents is our multidisciplinary team, as each member of POP holds a...
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POP + COPIM collaboration
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...
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Inventor Interviews II
We have completed 35 interviews to date with clothing inventors, hackers, makers and menders around the world. This map shows...
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Expanding POP team
The POP team is very pleased to welcome Adele Mason-Bertrand to the project as a Postdoctoral Research Fellow. She has...
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Inventor Interviews
Over the past couple of months, the POP team have been busy speaking with an incredible variety of people involved...
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Adaptive Clothing: What is it and Who is it For?
Adaptive Design Details by Unhidden Clothing. The fashion industry is infamously fixated on able-bodies and youth, and does not typically...
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Calling for Interviewees
In addition to undertaking archive research into 200 years of clothing inventions, POP are interviewing individuals and companies inventively engaged with...
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Lecture & Masterclass by Prof Shahidha Bari
LECTURE: CLOTHES and CONCEPTS: Methods for a new materialism 24th March, 2021, 4.30pm – 6pm GMT Online event Free. All...
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4S 2021 Conference Open Panel CFP
This year's 4S (Society for the Social Studies of Science) annual conference is going to be in Toronto (and online)...
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Some Thoughts on the FACE OFF Symposium
Last week, the POP team had the pleasure of attending the Face Off: The Provocations and Possibilities of Masks and Head...
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I spy with my little eye…
Surveillance is deeply embedded in our everyday life experiences. ‘Thanks’ to the democratization of surveillance, a plethora of tracking devices are...
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Advisory Board #1
The POP team met with our Advisory Board (AB) for our first big project review in November. Large projects often...
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Symposium: FACE OFF
The POP team are presenting a paper at the upcoming online symposium FACE OFF hosted by the Manchester Fashion Institute...
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Sporty Bodies & Wearable Tech
In our exploration of citizenship and wearable technology, sport and clothing for exercise are emerging as an important area not only because of...
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The politics of male underwear
What can we learn by researching the inventive histories of men's underwear? While the world is eagerly watching the battle...
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Clothing the “Perfect” Mother?
During and following the (first) UK lockdown in March, there has been much discussion over childcare. Specifically, debates centred around...
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