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Politics of Patents – ERC project

Funded Research

Transmissions book launch

Books

B&B on a British Library podcast

Public Engagement

Transmissions

Books

Creative Practice Ethnographies

Books

Bikes & Bloomers research

Funded Research

Bikes & Bloomers

Books

BB – Goldsmiths Research Questions

Video

Doing sociology with… costume

Video

Garment reconstruction

Creative Methods

B&B in new Open University module

Public Engagement

Talk: Socio-technical mobile devices of resistance

Video

100 Women in Cycling

Public Engagement

B&B at festivals

Public Engagement

Show, Tell & Try On

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B&B by others

Public Engagement

Research linings

Creative Methods

FREE cycle wear sewing patterns

Creative Methods

B&B Exhibition, Performance & Automaton

Public Engagement

Cycling Cultures

Funded Research

Bike Portraits

Creative Methods

Bike Portrait exhibitions

Public Engagement

Time-lapse videos

Creative Methods

Citizenship Hack

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Mobile mobilities conference

Transmissions & Entanglements

Funded Research

DiY WiFi

Books

73 Urban Journeys

Funded Research

Enquiry Machines (EMs)

Creative Methods

EM #1 – Interview machine

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EM #2 – Serendipity engine

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EM #3 – Failure châtelaine

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EM#4 – Problem maker

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EM Hackday – Makerversity

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EM Hackday – Goldsmiths

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EM Hackday – EASST, Copenhagen

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Research Zines

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Dr Kat Jungnickel
Senior Lecturer
Sociology Department
Goldsmiths, University of London

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@richardson_m_a So timely. We are about to publish an anthology on failure. Started before the pandemic, then took on greater gravity. Co- editors @Sybille1 @katjungnickel and non-twitter Jen Rae. Should be out by Dec. 👍

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Many thanks @sgsah for the invite to keynote at the #SGSAHSummer22. I wish I’d been able to join in person to meet you all and show & tell multi-dimensional stories. Zoom worked perfectly tho! Thanks for all the great comments and questions #PoliticsOfPatents @SociologyGold

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Very happy to be part of this @gcntweet short film about Tessie Reynold’s record breaking 1890s 🚲 achievements. Also impressed with @manonlloyd96’s ability to talk while cycling up hills in Victorian cyclewear👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼 @SociologyGold #BikesandBloomers

POP Instagram

A quick glimpse of our growing toile collection. ( A quick glimpse of our growing toile collection. (Toiles are practice pieces made out of cheaper material, usually calico). At POP, we think of toiles as time-travelling three-dimensional arguments that bring together theory, methods and data and give us a chance to interview inventors about their inventions. We’re planning events where we invite lots of people into the toiles and our research and we’re also preparing a digital Speculative Sewing Archive of all of these incredible designs.

ID: a photo of an industrial clothes rack filled with calico clothing on hangars. A video slowly pans across the garments

#speculativesewing #patents #inventions #inventor #research #sewing #toile
POP patent pattern packs! The amazing team in the POP patent pattern packs! The amazing team in the POPlab this summer are drafting sewing patterns from the some of the key patents as we do the research and reconstructions. We keep them safe in these envelops. They’re growing in numbers! The plan is to make them available open access at the end of the project (like the #BikesandBloomers patterns that have been amazingly downloaded 35,000 times so far 😮)

ID:
1. Seven brown envelope hang on a railing. A line drawing of a garment is stuck on the front. A colourful POP logo sticker is in the corner.
2 & 3. Close ups of the line drawing on the front of each envelope. 

#patent #sewing #sewingpattern #research #speculativesewing #archive #inventions
Lots talk, tea and translation work happening late Lots talk, tea and translation work happening lately. Patents into patterns. Words into drawings. 

ID: 
1. Two people stand over a desk with a paper pattern marked out in pen
2. A close up of a pages of text and drawings (a patent) with lots of annotations and highlighting 
3. Close up of piles of pattern pieces 
4.  Table with different tools of the trade - scissors, pens, measuring tape, paper, tea, glasses, biscuits, phone 

#sewing #inventions #research #speculativesewing #pattern #patent #translation
POP was visited by Jens Bemme, an absolute wizard POP was visited by Jens Bemme, an absolute wizard on all things Wiki (wikisource, wikicommons , wikidata etc). We were inspired, learned a lot and plan to do even more open access experiments with our dataset of women inventors/inventions 

ID: two smiling people stand in front of a colourful board pinned with lots of paper. 

#openaccess #inventions #womeninventors #POPLab
Today’s #PatentOfTheWeek is by #LenaSmith from 1 Today’s #PatentOfTheWeek is by #LenaSmith from 1888 in New York, USA. It’s a #SecretBustle with a “sack” or “pocket” inside to “stow away many things inconvenient to carry in the hands, such as a gum rain-mantel.”
 
Alice has done a fantastic job reconstructing this #invention, going through #iterative #prototypes made out of Chinese watercolour paper and pattern card.
 
This #patent is part of the wider POP #ResearchTheme of the #SecretCitizen… A collection of secret pockets placed all over the wearer in different sizes, forms and locations.
 
Please comment below what you might like to store in this bustle pocket…….
 
#PoliticsOfPatents #StsReconstructions #PaperPrototype
 
Image Description:
1. A black line drawing on a white background of a striped bustle from the front and side view.
2. A table with documents, pencil, ruler and paper models.
3. A wooden table with a paper circular bustle and strap with pins.
4. Alice standing behind a mannequin in office, putting her hand into the pocket of the bustle on the mannequin.
5. A close up of Alice’s hand in the see-through bustle pocket.
6. The paper and card bustle hanging on a grey background with other paper models.
We have had the pleasure of Julia joining the POP We have had the pleasure of Julia joining the POP team this week! 

She will be supporting the research by analysing patents, pattern cutting, draping, toile development, and constructing some of the finished costumes! 

More details to come of this cloak toile that Beatrice Bankart patented in 1910….

Image Description:
1. Julia draping a calico fabric cape onto a mannequin. 

2. Two documents on a wooden table. One is black and white patent illustrations, the other is a pencil sketch of pattern pieces. 

3. A calico short cape toile on a mannequin. 

4. Julia cuts out a piece of calico with a paper shape on top. 

#PoliticsOfPatents #Atelier #Toile #PatternCutter #Clothing #Costume #Reconstruction #Patent #Feminism
We’re busy in the POPLab today sewing #inventive We’re busy in the POPLab today sewing #inventive women’s #activewear (more on this shortly). It’s pretty warm in and outside ☀️ in summery London and we could do with one of these nifty bicycle umbrellas for the commute.

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Both images are line drawings of a bicycle with a parasol attached to the handlebars. The first is an 1897 patent by Clarissa Eveline Jay, spinster of North Adelaide in South Australia. The second is from 1896 by Rebecca Maud Bentham, also a cycling spinster, of Kensington, London

#spinster #invention #patent #research #women #cycling #summer #inventors
The POP team is currently in Madrid for the #Easst The POP team is currently in Madrid for the #EasstConference2022 - Kat and #JulienMcHardy presented their ongoing collaborative work “Data Conversations: performing digitisation differently” on the “Bringing STS up to speed? The digital as practice” panel. 

We visited the @museodeltraje filled with beautifully preserved  historic costumes and artefacts. We’ve also stopped by some colourful fabric stores and sampled delicious tapas! 

Image description:
1. Kat sits at a desk behind a laptop holding a microphone and Julien stands behind the desk. There is a wooden wall and digital screen in the background. 
2. A collection of Spanish historic waistcoats on mannequins and displayed in flat sections. 
3. The inside of a fabric shop with colourful rolls of material on benches and hanging on the wall. 

#PoliticsOfPatents #Madrid #STS
Another lovely social week in the POPLab. We had a Another lovely social week in the POPLab. We had a visit from Claudia who used to work at POP and is still doing dataset things with us, @geo_kalivis joins us to assist with an exciting #speculativesewing digital archive project and we also welcome @aliceeangus who brings her creative sewing skills (and an eclectic range of snacks 😋) to POP. We have a big summer of sewing ahead 🧵 🪡

ID: 
Pic 1:  Two people sit opposite at a table. One sketches on a patent document and the other types on a computer

Pic 2: Two people sit next to each other at a table , talking and looking at a computer screen
Lots of collection planning going on in the POP La Lots of collection planning going on in the POP Lab recently… 

Image Description:
1. A wooden table with clothing illustrations and fabric swatches in black and white and yellow. 
2. An ironing board with calico fabric with printed text and images. 
3. Kat and Ellen sit at a table with colourful fabric swatches, illustrations, trims and a laptop. 

#PoliticsOfPatents #GarmentCollection #FabricSwatch #Illustrations #InventiveMethods
The POP team are currently in Copenhagen meeting e The POP team are currently in Copenhagen meeting excellent practice researchers at @ethositu in @itucph and having wonderful conversations. 

Kat gave a talk on “Material Acts of Resistance” and delivered a workshop with PhD students on the dissemination and different transmission methods of research. 

We are very grateful to be here and look forward to putting people into costumes tomorrow!

Image Description: 1. Kat stands behind a black lectern raising her arms and wearing a purple shirt and waistcoat. On the screen in the background is a slide that reads “what is a patent?”

2. Three people stand together smiling inside a workshop. There is an Ethos Lab poster on the left and printed illustrations behind them on the wall. 

3. People sit around a long table with notebooks and laptops and listen to Kat speak. There is a screen has the word Transmissions on it and a whiteboard in the background. 

#PracticeResearch #Materials #ActsOfResistance #Lecture #STS #Costume
We had a super day in the POP Lab and welcomed vis We had a super day in the POP Lab and welcomed visitors @esa.morita @geo_kalivis @silviabombardini and Chloe for lunch. 

Check them all out for their incredible practices and research!!! Wonderful work and updates were shared and we look forward to when we can host again!

#PopLab #MultiDisciplinary #Collective #TShirt 

Image Description: 1. Four people stand in a line and another sits next to them smiling in front of bookshelves and posters. 

2. The back of a person wearing a black hat and a T-shirt that reads “It’s as if a mysterious force were driving me to steal things in shops.”

3. Two people sit at a wooden table with papers and pins and diagrams on it.
The wonderful @silviabombardini (POP PhD candidate The wonderful @silviabombardini (POP PhD candidate) presenting their research at @thefeministlibrary earlier this year as part of their ‘Promoting and Preserving Herstories’ project. 

“A shoplifter’s skirt … consists chiefly of pockets”: Unlawful Compartments in Womenswear, 1880-1920.

The paper examines secret pockets in the clothes of female #shoplifters at the turn of the 20th century. As sartorial technologies, #secret #pockets enabled, facilitated or encouraged what came to be known as a ‘kleptomania epidemic’. 

The pocket hidden in a muff, a glove, a garter, or the whole skirt double lined so as to become a pocket as tall as a woman’s legs, safely received and concealed the shoplifter’s haul – while her abidance to the rules of fashion served as a disguise, a false promise of respectability. 

Silvia frames women’s shoplifting as a feminist act of resistance, parallel to the suffrage protests that were underway at this time, and secret pockets as complicit in an unlawful creative act that questioned the nature of ownership in patriarchal capitalism. 

Read more about Silvia’s captivating work on the POP website! 

#PracticeResearch #FemaleShopLifter #Sartorial #FeministTechnology

Image Description:
1. Silvia sits wearing a hat shirt and jumper in front of a projected screen that shows a black and white photograph of a woman wearing a hat smiling. 

2. A group of people sitting in a library listening to Silvia present their research through a projected screen.
We’ve had the pleasure to welcome some really fa We’ve had the pleasure to welcome some really fantastic people into the POP Lab recently! 

Here are a few teasers of who we’ve met and what sort of exciting projects and collaborations we have in the works… 

Image Description:
1. Kat smiles on the left holding a book and on the right is the incredible @alisonmd rocking blue/purple hair. 

2. Kat stands on the left pointing to a board of multicolour while the wonderful @bunny_morethan and @naomi.paxton from @scarylittlegirls watch on. 

3. A group selfie featuring from left to right @kamaquilts , the brilliant @dorcasstories , @katjungnickel & @ellenfowles 

4. The amazing @philippabattye from @adventuresynd sits on the left in a colourful sewing studio whilst Kat stands on a stool on the right demonstrating a gathered skirt. 

#PoliticsOfPatents #Collaboration #GreatPeople #PopLab #SpeculativeSewing #Interdisciplinary
We always knew the clothing patent archive was a t We always knew the clothing patent archive was a treasure trove full of exciting and surprising things. But we certainly didn't expect to find such a large range of insect-protective clothing patents and the unpredictable insight they have provided into the colonial legacy of the patent archive.
 
Today’s #PatentOfTheWeek is “Mosquito Protective Headgear”. Patented by Isabella Mary Jane Simpson in 1918. It features a hat and wire loops to cover the face and neck in a veil style. You can see our #SpeculativeSewing process shots with wire, netting and calico caps!
 
Read more about this fascinating research on our new blog post “The Enemy Has Many Faces”.
 
In the meantime, Kat and Katja are off to Sweden to present a paper at #PASSIM. 
 
#PoliticsOfPatents #IsabellaMaryJaneSimpson #MosquitoProtection #Veil #Insects #STSReconstructions
 
Image Description:
 
1: A black line drawing on a white background of a looped hat with draped front and back sections. 

2: a wooden table top with a document, cable ties and wire cutting tools. 

3: Kat’s side profile, she is holding two curves of wire in front of her face. 

4: Katja smiling wearing a calico cap. The background is a colourful studio. 

5: Katja in side profile wearing the calico and netting toile of the mosquito hat with safety pins across it.

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