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Dr Kat Jungnickel
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Sociology Department
Goldsmiths, University of London

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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

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).

Day two! Another seriously intense and enjoyable f

Day two! Another seriously intense and enjoyable full day at the V&A’s Digital Design w/e. Today’s team was @geo_kalivis @tita.1981 @katjungnickel. There’s been a lot of interest in our sewing AI experiment and we’re learning constantly too. We told more research stories and collectively generated an eclectic range of new clothing designs with curious creative people. It’s been a really great experience so far. We went for an evening social and networked with other researchers / designers/ artists. Looking forward to the last day tomorrow.

First session done. Constant interest and particip

First session done. Constant interest and participation for 3.5 hours. Really honed our collective storytelling as we guided people into the project and to play with the potential and discuss the problems of AI. Thanks to the energetic Fri POP team: Britt Hatzius, @geo_kalivis, @jamesfraser.architect @will_cenci @katjungnickel

More tomorrow!

POP are very pleased to be part of the @vamuseum D

POP are very pleased to be part of the @vamuseum Digital Design Weekend with an experiment in Speculative Sewing AI. It’s a collaboration of POP research brought to life by Jamie Shilvock’s great computational skills. We’ll be here all weekend. In the learning centre.

Thanks to everyone for sending in pics. Loving see

Thanks to everyone for sending in pics. Loving seeing the POPFest showcase from different perspectives.

POPFest was so great! We had a wonderful book laun

POPFest was so great! We had a wonderful book launch and celebration of the POP research - with talks, film showing, performance and a fantastic catwalk of reconstructed patented costumes. Enormous thanks to everyone involved. 🎉

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