Sociologist Dr Kat Jungnickel, who teaches at Goldsmiths College at the University of London, is a guest of the residency programme "HGK Basel @ Atelier Mondial" from 6 to 24 May at the invitation of Prof. Dr Aylin Tschoepe, Head of metaLAB (at) Basel.
Picture: A collection of convertible sportswear reconstructed from 1890-1940s patents by Dr Kat Jungnickel’s POP research team and put to the test in the "Women On The Move" short film.
Dr Kat Jungnickel, who teaches in the Department of Sociology at Goldsmiths College, University of London, is Researcher-in-Residence at the HGK Basel from 6 to 24 May 2024 at the invitation of Prof. Dr Aylin Tschoepe, Head of metaLAB (at) Basel at the HGK Basel, as part of the residency programme "HGK Basel @ Atelier Mondial".
During the research stay, Kat Jungnickel will explore inventive approaches to archival research, radical histories of clothing patents, speculative sewing, and DIY wearable tech cultures. Her interests and practice research lie at the intersection of art, design, history and science.
In collaboration with Prof. Dr. Aylin Tschoepe, Prof. Dr. Kat Jungnickel will connect across the Institute of Contemporary Design Practices (Scenography, Fashion Design, Industrial Design) and shared interests in feminist technoscience, feminist spatial and embodied practice etc. and contribute to an exchange through a lunch talk, workshop and interactive presentation in the recently opened metaLAB (at) Basel at the HGK Basel. Atelier Mondial and the community on Campus Dreispitz will be invited to these events:
Thursday, 15 May 2024, 5 pm
Talk and Workshop - Queer and feminist speculative research methods
DIY approaches to clothing inventions and inventiveness
Wednesday, 22 May 2024, 4 pm
Show & Tell presentation: interactive talk about sewing as a social science research method and radical act of resistance
Kat Jungnickel is a Professor in the Sociology Department, co-Director of Methods Lab and PI on the European Research Council–funded project Politics of Patents (POP): Reimagining Citizenship via Clothing Inventions 1820-2020 at Goldsmiths, University of London.
Her research draws on Science and Technology Studies (STS) and Feminist Technoscience to explore how inventors of the past and present have sought to radically re-invent and re-imagine socio-political worlds with mundane and ordinary things. She leads a team of sewing social scientists in the POPLab using ethnographic research, interviews and speculative sewing – making and wearing historic data – to develop insights into the history of invention, wearable tech and citizenship.
Recent publications include: (ed) How to Do Social Research With… (with Coleman and Puwar, Goldsmiths Press 2023), (ed) Transmissions: Critical Tactics for Making and Communicating Research (MIT Press 2020), Creative Practice Ethnographies (with Hjorth, Harris and Coombs, Rowman & Littlefield 2020) and Bikes and Bloomers: Victorian Women Inventors and their Extraordinary Cycle Wear (Goldsmiths Press 2018).