RESEARCHING, RECONSTRUCTING & REIMAGINING 200YRS OF WEARABLE TECH
"Politics of Patents: Re-imagining citizenship via clothing inventions 1820-2020" is a five year research project funded by an ERC Consolidator grant [2019-2024].
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SPECULATIVE SEWING INVENTORY
A collection of research reconstructions of historic wearable tech
WOMEN ON THE MOVE
Short film about the history of women’s sports & activewear
Made by POP + The Adventure Syndicate + Mór Diversity
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POP is an ambitious global investigation of 200 years of patented clothing inventions
Q
– How have clothing inventors attempted to change the world stitch by stitch?
– What kinds of citizens are made possible or re-imagined through clothing inventions?
– Can clothing inventions be read as acts of political resistance, contestation or subversion?
– What might a study of clothing inventions reveal about citizenship in the past, today & the future?
POP PEOPLE
Dr Roselind Sinclair
Collaborator
Nahuel Cano
Collaborator
Dr Julien McHardy
Collaborator
Nikki Pugh
RA/PM
The Adventure Syndicate
Collaborator
Aneela McKenna, Mór Diversity
Collaborator
Patent illustrations from Espacenet, used with permission of the European Patent Office.