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. Wearable Utopias explores the promise of wearables for reimagining social and political problems of today for diverse and inclusive worlds for tomorrow. Kat Jungnickel, Ellen Fowles, Katja May, and Nikki Pugh entangle science and technology studies, gender studies, and cultural studies with contemporary issues to highlight the role wearables can play in forging alternative paths through conventional landscapes. Featuring twenty-three interviews with new and established international designers, this 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.
The interviews in
Wearable Utopias are organized into six key themes addressing a selection of pressing civic issues:
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), and
working (wearables that address inequalities in the workplace).
Wearable Utopias offers insight and inspiration for students, researchers, designers, and anyone making things to wear who is frustrated with daily inequities and normative limitations and wants to do things differently.
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).
Wearable Utopias offers insight and inspiration for students, researchers, designers, and anyone making things to wear who is frustrated with daily inequities and normative limitations and wants to do things differently.
一系列引人深思的訪談，與前沿設計師探討如何將普通的可穿戴設備轉變為個人表達、公眾參與和激進政治行動的非凡場所。《Wearable Utopias》探索了可穿戴設備在重新想像當今社會和政治問題方面的潛力，以創造多元和包容的明天。Kat Jungnickel、Ellen Fowles、Katja May 和 Nikki Pugh 將科學與技術研究、性別研究和文化研究與當代議題交織在一起，突顯可穿戴設備在傳統環境中開創替代道路的角色。本書包含二十三篇與新興及知名國際設計師的訪談，涵蓋從設計用以保護數位隱私的外套，到對抗空氣污染的高性能牛仔褲，以及作為對城市騷擾的回應的高可見度自行車服等各種主題。
《Wearable Utopias》中的訪談分為六個關鍵主題，針對一系列緊迫的公民議題進行探討：擴展（推動身體、社會和政治邊界的可穿戴設備）、移動（使參與更廣泛運動和活動成為可能的可穿戴設備）、隱藏（保護隱私或保守秘密的可穿戴設備）、連結（將個人與大規模議題聯繫起來的可穿戴設備）、洩漏（挑戰排尿和月經被視為問題或禁忌的可穿戴設備）、以及工作（針對工作場所不平等的可穿戴設備）。
《Wearable Utopias》為學生、研究者、設計師以及任何對日常不平等和規範限制感到沮喪並希望有所改變的穿戴物品創作者提供了見解和靈感。本書是由歐洲研究委員會資助的專案「專利的政治（POP）：通過服裝發明重新想像公民身份」的一部分，該專案由倫敦大學金史密斯學院的Kat Jungnickel主導，Ellen Fowles（研究助理）、Katja May（博士後研究員）和Nikki Pugh（研究助理）共同參與。
《Wearable Utopias》為學生、研究者、設計師以及任何對日常不平等和規範限制感到沮喪並希望有所改變的穿戴物品創作者提供了見解和靈感。
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).
