THEMES
POP is exploring the following research themes across 200 years of clothing inventions in global patent archives:
Who gets to take up public space (and who is made smaller, concealed and compressed)?
This theme explores the politics of taking up space in public.
Citizens in public space are not equally given capacity and possibility to expand. Some, such as women, children, queer and disabled people, have historically been hidden, reduced, compressed and ignored in different ways.This theme explores how some inventors refuse to be made smaller or diminished by society. It highlights different ways people have resisted hegemonic norms to become space makers, takers and claimers via unusual and inventive forms of clothing.