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Pockets of Power

Public Engagement

Women On The Move

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Politics of Patents – ERC project

Funded Research

Transmissions book launch

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B&B on a British Library podcast

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Creative Practice Ethnographies

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Bikes & Bloomers research

Funded Research

Bikes & Bloomers

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BB – Goldsmiths Research Questions

Video

Doing sociology with… costume

Video

Garment reconstruction

Creative Methods

B&B Animation

Creative Methods , Cycling , Video

B&B in new Open University module

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Talk: Socio-technical mobile devices of resistance

Video

100 Women in Cycling

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B&B at festivals

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Show, Tell & Try On

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B&B by others

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Research linings

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FREE cycle wear sewing patterns

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B&B Exhibition, Performance & Automaton

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Cycling Cultures

Funded Research

Bike Portraits

Creative Methods

Bike Portrait exhibitions

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Time-lapse videos

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Citizenship Hack

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Mobile mobilities conference

Transmissions & Entanglements

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DiY WiFi

Books

73 Urban Journeys

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Enquiry Machines (EMs)

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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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Contact

Kat Jungnickel
Professor
Sociology Department
Goldsmiths, University of London

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POP’s collaboratively made short film ‘Women O POP’s collaboratively made short film ‘Women On The Move’ is back from an international tour of film festivals. 

To mark International Women’s Day #IWD2025 it is now live and free to view on @adventuresynd YouTube page. See link ⬆️ 

The film tells inspiring stories of trailblazing women who resisted social restrictions, refused to be held back and reimagined worlds that seemed off limits to them. 

We showcase the remarkable creativity of inventors in the late nineteenth century who patented radical convertible sportswear to do all the things they were not encouraged to like flying, hiking, swimming, cycling and more.

Women On The Move is based on @erc_research funded POP research, directed by Alice @lemkiss of The Adventure Syndicate with @philippabattye and @leecraigie_  and Mòr Diversity @mrsgowherescotland. It was filmed in Scotland and edited by @oxfordatelier (Maciek Tomiczek).
 

ID: film poster showing three women climbing over a fence with the name of the film - Women on The move - and everyone’s  logos 

#IWD #womensfashion #womenshistory #womeninventors #womenadventurers #patents #invention #sewing #research #practiceresearch #speculativesewing
The POP team had a fantastic time at the Smithsoni The POP team had a fantastic time at the Smithsonian Museum of American History running events in collaboration with the Lemelson Center for the Study of Invention & Innovation and US Patent Office. It was a jam packed few days. 

We set up a mini exhibit and were part of a day of school sessions, running 8 interactive classes with children aging from 7 to 15 years old (up to 30 in each session). 

We then set up a larger exhibit with a collection of reconstructed patented sportswear costumes to try on, portrait booths with different backdrops (+ props!) and an “Invent Your Own Sportswear” activity. 

There were almost 2000 visitors to the museum that day and Talitha, George and I may just have seen, interacted and chatted with all of them : ) 

I was also on stage twice doing Q&As and Show, Tell and Try On’s in conversation with Eric Hintz, director of the Lemelson Centre and enthusiastic volunteers. 

We have loads of pics and videos to sort through and share. Thanks enormously to everyone involved, it was a really memorable experience.

ID: 3 members of the PoP team pose with sporting equipment in front of Black and white backdrops of urban and nature scenes. Two are in patented 1910/1930s sportswear and one in wearing an apron with the POP logo on the front

#exhibition #publicengagement #invention #clothing #sportswear #womenshistory #womeninventors #sewing #speculativesewing #patent #research #practiceresearch
POP is very happy to announce an upcoming collabor POP 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 of public programming events to support the Smithsonian’s “Change Your Game” exhibition about women’s sportswear inventions.

POP are installing an interactive exhibit with historic sportswear reconstructions for people to learn about and to try on and we are running an “Invent Your Own Sportswear” activity workshop. 

We will also be doing a Q&A on stage about the research several times during the event. So they’ll be plenty of ways to learn about all the research we’ve been doing over the years.

Events are being run specifically for visiting school groups (14 Feb) and the general public (15 Feb). 

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Smithsonian Event Overview

Explore how innovations in ready-to-wear clothes transformed sports, especially for women in the 1890s to today, through hands-on activities, guided exhibit tours, and engaging discussions. This all-day event invites students, families, and community members to discover their inventive identities and learn how innovation has changed the game—on and off the field.
 
Key Details
When: Saturday, February 15 from 10:00 A.M. until 5:30 P.M.
Location: Wallace H. Coulter Plaza, National Museum of American History (NMAH), Washington, D.C.
Admission: Free, no tickets required

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More info in link above 

ID: screenshot from the event page with same text as above.
Started the year with a conference about histories Started the year with a conference about histories and futures of patents in Rome hosted by two other ERC projects “Before Copyright” and “Creative IPR”. It was held in the Norwegian Institute which had amazing views over the city. 

ID: 1. A groups of people start together on the rooftop of a building
2. People wait in a group rise the gates of a large building 
3. Views of Rome
Just finishing up attending a series of conference Just finishing up attending a series of conferences in Australia - AusSTS in Canberra at ANU and CSAA, the Australian Cultural Studies annual meeting at the centre for Global indigenous Futures at Wallamattagal Campus, Macquarie Uni. Really valuable and inspiring talks. 

I talked about what’s in and not in clothing patent archives - what’s hidden under the surface, in the seams and stitches - and how it’s possible to find small and remarkable stories of resistance and disruption even within large-scale colonial, binary and privileged territorialising patent machinery.

I have no pics of me presenting this year but I do have one from last year’s CSAA conference where I demo’d our reconstruction of Edith Foltz’s amazing 1937 convertible flying suit.

In this invention the wearer could minimise social harassment by confirming to gender norms while also being equipped to safely and comfortable fly a plane!

On the ground the wearer looked to be clothed in a conventional narrow skirt. Yet, in the plane she was able to transform the garment into a functional overall - with jodhpurs and fitted blouse, complete with multiple pockets. 

The invention was easily converted back into less radical and more socially acceptable womenswear when the aviatrix returned to the ground. 

📷 Thx to Pru Black for the pic

ID: 1. @katjungnickel stands in a table in an all-in-one garment made up of 3/4 trousers and attached blouse. 
2. Black and white drawings from the patent document showing the invention in various configurations from skirt to overall 

#convertible #patent #invention #clothinginvention #sewing #speculativesewing #practiceresearch #womenshistory #womeninventors #hiddenhistory
Who wouldn’t want a modern version of this combi Who wouldn’t want a modern version of this combination cycling, walking and hiking skirt which comes with its own handy satchel and cape! 

Also how fantastic does @geo_kalivis look in this invention. 

Video is from our POPFest Speculative Sewing Catwalk. 

#speculativesewing #popfest #research #sewing #cycling #invention
We’ve been waiting patiently for copies of our n We’ve been waiting patiently for copies of our new edited book Wearable Utopias. It just arrived and the covers are so great! - ⭐️credit @rebirthgarments &  @colectivomultipolar. It’s amazing to see something up close in this form after spending years thinking about it and working in it. We’ll be posting copies to everyone involved soon! 

We are of course also super happy that the digital version of the book is available FREE and OPEN ACCESS. See link above to get your copy.
We’ve edited together some of the lovely footage We’ve edited together some of the lovely footage from the POPFest rehearsals. Thanks to everyone involved 🌈⭐️
You may have noticed the hats or head pieces the P You may have noticed the hats or head pieces the POP models were wearing in our Speculative Sewing Catwalk.

Everyone was dressed in black to showcase the patented calico toile inventions. And we wanted a colourful flourish to match the brightness of the POP logo and project as a whole. 

So we tasked @aliceeangus to make some wearable flourishes! In addition to being an excellent dressmaker is also a practicing artist. 

Each piece is unique and most of them mirror the shape of the converting technology hidden in the inventions. They were also all made of spare or scrap materials in the office. 

We think they turned out well 🌈 ❤️🎉⭐️

Here’s a close up of a few of them.

ID: images of neon thin circular shapes with contrasting coloured netting worn on people’s heads

#wearablesculpture #wearableart #wearableutopias #inventions #patents #practiceresearch #sewing #speculativesewing
A few more images of the team as they rehearsed fo A few more images of the team as they rehearsed for POPs recent Speculative Sewing Catwalk.
 
#practiceresearch #sewing #speculativesewing #studio #academic #exhibition #wearables #invention #womenshistory #design #patent #patentresearch #STS #scienceandtechnology #catwalk #rehearsal #clothes
POPFest catwalk rehearsals! Our recent Speculativ POPFest catwalk rehearsals!

Our 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 1857.

Because the costumes need to be worn for the convertible aspects to be fully appreciated, we invited 9 people to dress in the research for the POP Fest showcase.

All clothing inventions transform in some way – this was not a standard runway event. And no one involved had ever been in a fashion show or organised one before. 

So, rehearsals were essential to get all the pieces together and work out what we were doing. 

There were a lot of details to refine: Kat’s intro’s, camera angles, transformation logistics, music lists, synchronisation, sashays, twirls and boogies.

Needless to say, the dress rehearsal was as much fun as the public event later on.

The models were students from Goldsmiths, researchers and friends of the Politics of Patents project. Thank you to @mene_vou @Jo_honeyx Stephanie @wadsworth_tom @iamyourotherfriend @suheflora @silviabombardini @geo_kalivis and @tita.1981 for their contributions to the showcase and to the POP research as a whole. We are indebted to them for the enthusiasm and energy they brought to the event, and the way they helped to share and showcase the stories, inventiveness and, in some cases, bravery of the inventors.

Many thanks also to @aliceeangus & @aaureliaclara for managing the dressing and behind-the-scenes activities. 

Image credits: Britt Hatzius, @aaureliaclara, @jamesfraser.architect and many more. Thankyou!

IN THIS POST:

1) Team briefing
2) Hennie spinning
3) Jo dancing
4) Tom transforming
5) Tal performing
6) George turning
7) Stephanie walking
8) Flora posing
9) Mene lifting 
10) Silvia getting help – she had the most complicated costume!

#practiceresearch #sewing #speculativesewing #studio #academic #exhibition #wearables #invention #womenshistory #design #patent #patentresearch #STS #scienceandtechnology #catwalk #rehearsal #clothes
Part of our recent POP Fest extravaganza involved Part of our recent POP Fest extravaganza involved setting up a small version of POPLab in the beautiful River Rooms at Somerset House. This enabled us to provide our showcase guests with a glimpse into our practice research.

In one of the side rooms we curated artefacts and documentation of the wider Politics of Patents project to invite people into all the different research activities we've been working on over the last few years.

Alongside many of the tools of our practice (such as sewing machines, scissors, thread and materials) the exhibition included paper and other prototypes at multiple scales, full scale fabric toiles, short films, animated gifs, and traces of the many research stages in between. All of which made for quite the packing list to transport from the POP Lab!

#practiceresearch #sewing #speculativesewing #studio #academic #exhibition #wearable #invention #womenshistory #design #patent #patentresearch
The first event in last month's POPFest was the We The first event in last month's POPFest was the Wearable Utopias symposium, held in the River Rooms of Somerset House, London.

POP hosted a small networking seminar to celebrate the launch of the new edited collection - Wearable Utopias - and the approaching end of the POP project. 

We invited an exciting group of speakers from a range of different disciplines to share their insights on the topic of wearable world-making in histories, futures and fabulations:

Key speakers included:
Ben Barry - @bendrakbarry - Dean and Associate Professor of Equity and Inclusion in the School of Fashion at Parsons 
Alison Matthews David - @alisonmd - Associate Professor in the School of Fashion, University of Toronto
Laura Forlano - @laura4lano - Professor, Art + Design and Communication Studies at Northeastern University
Melissa Gregg - @melgregg - Sustainability advisor, Meta Reality Labs and incoming Professor of Digital Futures at BDFI
Kat Jungnickel - @katjungnickel - Professor in Sociology, Goldsmiths 
Lucy Orta - @lucyjorgeorta - Professor of Visual Arts at UAL and award-winning visual artist with Studio Orta

Plus we heard shorter presentations from:
Eldina Begic - Creator of ‘Dresstopia’ and curator of the exhibition ‘Workwear’ in Rotterdam 2023
Silvia Bombardini - @silviabombardini - Visual Sociology, Goldsmiths 
Bastien Lefebvre - Architectural Association School of Architecture
Yunpei Li - @ppliyunpei - London College of Fashion
Qian Yang - @qianyangrae - Architectural Association School of Architecture

More about the event is on the POP website – see link in our bio. 

Many thanks to all our speakers and also to everyone else who took part and made the symposium possible. It was a great day exploring varied approaches to harnessing the power of wearables to affect change.

If you're interested in learning more about what wearables can do, then our new book 'Wearable Utopias: Imagining, Inventing, & Inhabiting New Worlds' is now available as a free open-access download from @mitpress (see link ⬆️) and to buy in all the usual places.

#wearables #utopia #invention #symposium #practice #practiceresearch #speculativesewing #newbook
The FREE open access version of our new book Weara The FREE open access version of our new book Wearable Utopias is out and available NOW. See link above ⬆️ 🎉⭐️🌈⚡️❤️🤩

Wearable Utopias explores the promise of wearables for reimagining social and political problems of today for diverse and inclusive worlds for tomorrow. 

It’s edited by @katjungnickel @ellenfowles Katja May & Nikki Pugh and features interviews with 26 amazing new and established international cutting-edge designers.

23 interviews are organized into six key themes: 

EXPANDING (wearables that push physical, social, and political boundaries), 

MOVING (wearables that enable participation in a wider range of sport and activities), 

CONCEALING (wearables that defend privacy or keep secrets), 

CONNECTING (wearables that link individuals to large-scale issues); 

LEAKING (wearables that challenge the idea that urinating and menstruating are problematic or taboo), 
 
WORKING (wearables that address inequalities in the workplace).

The collection covers everything from coats designed to protect digital privacy to high-performing jeans that combat air pollution and to hi-vis cyclewear as a response to urban harassment.

We’ve all worked really hard to develop this collection and feel very privileged to feature the work of lots of inspiring creative people - we hope many of you will find it useful and interesting in your work and study.

ID: photo of a pile of books on a table with @rebirthgarments on the front cover (fantastic cover photo by @colectivomultipolar)
That’s a wrap! Third day of @vamuseum Digital De That’s a wrap! Third day of @vamuseum Digital Design W/e. We thoroughly loved being part of it. Chatted non-stop about ideas with interesting visitors, met lovely staff members, enjoyed crafting a 5 sentence intro of a massive 5 yr project and co-created some fascinating/bonkers clothing designs! Today’s POP team was @silviabombardini @aliceeangus @katjungnickel Thanks to everyone involved in making this happen - esp @will_cenci Jamie Shilvock and all in the V&A learning/education team (you run an impressively smooth and friendly event).

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