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

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smnolas

#savegoldsmiths join the online rally starting now

raising a glass to all my wonderful colleagues & students @SociologyGold & everyone at @GoldsmithsUCU @GoldsmithsSU for all the hope and emotional and practical labour, comrades in this struggle 💜

đŸ‘ŠđŸŒ #virtualpicket https://twitter.com/cleanersfor/status/1367808250863878148

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spatialmutation

We are being gutted from the inside out at Goldsmiths, by senior management, through the push for re-structuring
during a pandemic. They can't recognise what draws staff and students to the place. #saveGoldsmiths
They are sapping our intellectual fire đŸ”„
@rawfeminism

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EmmakJackson

It is really moving to see people from all over the country at the #savegoldsmiths solidarity rally.

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Please join @katjungnickel + @laurawattswords @unm Please join @katjungnickel + @laurawattswords @unmakingstudio Åsa Ståhl & Kristina Lindström for discussions about the book Transmissions: critical tactics for making and communicating research in a COLLABORATIVE FUTURE-MAKING | Online Seminar on today - Thurs 4th 1-3pm CET. 

We’ll show & tell stories of transmissions from our own research – incl poetry, costumes and sewing, manuals & more. We hope participants will also show & share creative practice research.

Free and all welcome

https://mau.se/en/calendar/cfm-transmissions/

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The draping course continues. Moving into skirts n The draping course continues. Moving into skirts now: pencil and box pleat. Lots of great practice and thick description in material + talk + notes: “watch how the material travels”, “think of it like origami”, “take the idea and play around with it”, “happy accidents happen all the time” 
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#DressMaking #PatternCutting #Draping

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POP is very pleased to be co-hosting (with Methods POP is very pleased to be co-hosting (with Methods Lab) a public lecture and postgrad masterclass by Professor @shahidhabari - writer, academic and critic and author of Dressed: The Secret Life Of Clothes. 

The lecture explores emergent approaches to the study of material culture, thinking specifically about the sensory study of dress. Placing the study of dress in the philosophical tradition of phenomenology, it asks “How do objects yield concepts?”

The masterclass focuses on how academics express ideas in writing. It considers the effects of different styles and forms, reflecting on how to adapt research for knowledge exchange and public engagement and exploring the art of the essay. 

Free and all welcome. Wednesday 24th March 10.00 and 16.30 GMT. For more information and to register a place see the link above.
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#clothes #inventions #clothingstudy #dress #materialculture #newmaterialism #methods #creativewriting #storytelling #writing

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Please join us at the 2021 4S conference this year Please join us at the 2021 4S conference this year (in Toronto and online). POP, together with super clever colleagues, are co-chairing an Open Panel: “Un/Making a Difference: the possibilities of extra-ordinary acts of mundane resistance in unequal and uncertain worlds”. 

This open panel explores small and modest acts of resistance, ‘acts of citizenship’ (Isin and Nielson 2008) and enactments of ‘citizenship from below’ (Sheller 2014). These are socio-political methods, practices and performances and identities, made, claimed and negotiated on many scales, including sensory and embodied mundane daily practice. While often small and mundane, these acts and enactments can make a big difference. 

We welcome individual and collective, inventive and speculative practice research and experimental multi-media presentations using audio-visual, objects, material and performance.

CFP deadline is March 8.

Read the full abstract and conf theme info at the POPblog (link above)

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The POP team get to develop new skills as part of The POP team get to develop new skills as part of the project. @katjungnickel has been doing a “Draping on the Stand” course, which involves moulding, smoothing, pinning, cutting fabric to fit the body then translating it onto paper. It’s turned into a remote course (via Teams) rather than studio-based (sadly), but it still works and probably means there’s even more talk about sculpting, negotiating and working with multi-material dimensionalities as everyone attempts to do it in practice in their own homes. #DressMaking #PatternCutting #Draping

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POP is very pleased to welcome Ellen Fowles to the POP is very pleased to welcome Ellen Fowles to the project. Ellen holds an MA in Fashion Design from the Royal College of Art, and is an adaptivewear Designer Researcher based in London. She practices collaboration in inclusive design through intergenerational workshops and ethnographic studies.

Ellen is taking on the Research Assistant/ Project Manager role. She will be central to upcoming POP activities and events and we are looking forward to sewing and making exciting things with her too!

âžĄïž Read more about Ellen on the POP team page 

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We loved learning about astronauts' helmets, flu v We loved learning about astronauts' helmets, flu veils, hybrid heads and much more at last week's online symposium Face Off: The Provocations and Possibilities of Masks and Head Converings organised by @mcrfashioninstitute . You can read more about it and our POP presentation in our latest blog post (link in bio).

#PoliticsOfPatents
#FaceOffSymposium
#Masks
#HeadCoverings
#Clothing
#FashionStudies

Photo credit: @alexiby 

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POP are looking fwd to presenting at 'FACE OFF: Th POP are looking fwd to presenting at 'FACE OFF: The Provocation & Possibilities of Face Masks & Head Coverings' symposium (13/14) hosted by the Manchester Fashion Institute. @katjungnickel & @kamaquilts will be 'Unmasking the inventive socio-histories of face coverings'. Free to attend. See POP Twitter for link 

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A slightly dystopic take on Christmas - our last b A slightly dystopic take on Christmas - our last blogpost for 2020 is about children & surveillance (link above). We ask: How do (some) kids clothing patents conceal surveillance as “entrainment” & “fun”?

#patent #invention #clothing #children #surveillance #ElfOnTheShelf

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What can sport clothing inventions tell us about t What can sport clothing inventions tell us about the changing nature of citizenship?  New POPblog post (link above)

#sport #sports #sportswear #clothing #invention #patents #LineDrawing

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New POPblog post on the inventive history of men’s underwear. While the world is watching two powerful white men battle it out in the US, we go under the surface to explore a range of performances and embodiments of masculinity in the intimate sphere đŸ©Č (Link above)

#pants #underwear #masculinity #invention #patents

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NEW JOB ALERT. Work with the POP team! We are look NEW JOB ALERT. Work with the POP team! We are looking for a Research Assistant/ Project Manager to join the European Research Council funded “Politics of Patents” project. It's FT for 2 years - starting Feb 2021. You’ll do research on amazing inventions, sew and make things, manage the POPLab and help put on events. Info in link above. Please share widely!

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During and following the (first) lockdown in March During and following the (first) lockdown in March, there has been much discussion over childcare. Specifically, debates centred around what the ‘staying at home’ policy and the closure of schools meant for both children and those caring for them. We’ve been exploring the patent archive for ideas about caring, specifically childcare. What can the history of clothing inventions reveal about the politics of care and responsibility? New POPblog: Clothing the “perfect” mother? - see link above 

#patent #inventions #clothing #caring #childcare #motherhood #lockdown #research

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We’ve been exploring intersections of clothing, We’ve been exploring intersections of clothing, sexuality and citizenship - asking: What role do clothing inventions play in shaping (enabling, constraining & organising) who and how people desire? Lots of fascinating emerging ideas - #1 for eg is an 1870 “Self Protector” to help prevent masturbation. #2 is a 2013 “Hygienic Masturbation Glove”. More in a new POP blogpost (link above) 

#inventions #inventor #clothing #LineDrawing #illustration #patent #desire #sexuality #erotic

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Lots of action this week in the POPLab. We’ve ha Lots of action this week in the POPLab. We’ve had to move inside a bit more with the rainy weather, and (socially distant) board work is helping us make sense of the data - clustering themes, mapping across time and getting excited about ideas 💡

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