Wearable Utopias - Imagining, Inventing, and Inhabiting New Worlds

A collection of thought-provoking interviews with cutting-edge designers who transform ordinary wearables into extraordinary sites of personal expression, public engagement, and radical political action. Is the revolution hanging in your closet? The interviews in

List of contents

Contents
Introduction. Embodied acts of resistance – Kat Jungnickel
Chapter 1. EXPANDING
Chapter 2. MOVING
Chapter 3. CONCEALING
Chapter 4. CONNECTING  
Chapter 5. LEAKING
Chapter 6. WORKING  
Conclusion. Inventing new civic and social futures – Kat Jungnickel
References
Index

About the author

This book is part of the European Research Council–funded project Politics of Patents (POP): Reimagining Citizenship via Clothing Inventions, hosted at Goldsmiths, University of London, led by Kat Jungnickel with Ellen Fowles (Research Assistant), Katja May (Postdoctoral Fellow), and Nikki Pugh (Research Assistant).

Product details

• Authors: Ellen Fowles, Kat Jungnickel, Katja May, Pugh, Nikki Pugh
• Publisher: The MIT Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 03.12.2024
• EAN: 9780262548250
• ISBN: 978-0-262-54825-0
• No. of pages: 258
• Dimensions: 154 mm x 229 mm x 17 mm
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Art > Interior design, design; DESIGN / Product, DESIGN / Fashion & Accessories, Industrial / commercial art & design, Fashion and textile design, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Technology Studies