- Clothing inventions as acts of citizenship? The politics of material participation, wearable technologies and women patentees in late Victorian Britain Jungnickel, Kat. 2023. Clothing inventions as acts of citizenship? The politics of material participation, wearable technologies and women patentees in late Victorian Britain. Science Technology & Human Values, 48(1), pp. 9-33. ISSN 0162-2439
- Introduction to Creating Feminist Futures: Research Methodologies for New Times Coleman, Rebecca and Jungnickel, Kat. 2023. Introduction to Creating Feminist Futures: Research Methodologies for New Times. Australian Feminist Studies, 38(115-6), pp. 1-13. ISSN 0816-4649
- Patently revolutionary What an 1895 bicycle skirt tells us about gender, citizenship and change Jungnickel, Kat; May, Katja and Fowles, Ellen. 2022. Patently revolutionary What an 1895 bicycle skirt tells us about gender, citizenship and change. The Sociological Review Magazine, 2022(June), ISSN 2754-1371
- Speculatively sewing historic clothing patents Jungnickel, Kat. 2021. Speculatively sewing historic clothing patents. Interactions, 28(4), pp. 15-17. ISSN 1072-5520
- Politics of Patents: Researching, making and wearing alternative histories of clothing inventions Jungnickel, Kat. 2021. Politics of Patents: Researching, making and wearing alternative histories of clothing inventions. Digital Culture & Society, 6(1), pp. 207-210. ISSN 2364-2114
- The ingenious cyclewear Victorian women invented to navigate social mores, The Guardian Bike Blog, June 2018 Jungnickel, Kat. 2018. The ingenious cyclewear Victorian women invented to navigate social mores, The Guardian Bike Blog, June 2018. The Guardian, Bike Blog,
- Sewing as a design method Jungnickel, Kat. 2015. Sewing as a design method. ACM Interactions, 22(6), p. 72.
- ‘‘One needs to be very brave to stand all that’’: Cycling, rational dress and the struggle for citizenship in late nineteenth century Britain Jungnickel, Katrina. 2015. ‘‘One needs to be very brave to stand all that’’: Cycling, rational dress and the struggle for citizenship in late nineteenth century Britain. Geoforum, 64, pp. 362-371. ISSN 0016-7185
- Hacking Binaries/Hacking Hybrids: Understanding the Black/White Binary as a Socio-technical Practice Forlano, Laura and Jungnickel, Katrina. 2015. Hacking Binaries/Hacking Hybrids: Understanding the Black/White Binary as a Socio-technical Practice. Ada: A Journal of Gender, New Media, and Technology(6), ISSN 2325-0496
- Methodological entanglements in the field: Methods, transitions and transmissions Jungnickel, Katrina and Hjorth, Larissa. 2014. Methodological entanglements in the field: Methods, transitions and transmissions. Visual Studies, 29(2), pp. 136-145. ISSN 1472-586X
- Why culture matters for transport policy: the case of cycling in the UK Aldred, Rachel and Jungnickel, Katrina. 2014. Why culture matters for transport policy: the case of cycling in the UK. Journal of Transport Geography, 34, pp. 78-87. ISSN 0966-6923
- Cycling’s Sensory Strategies: How Cyclists Mediate their Exposure to the Urban Environment Jungnickel, Katrina and Aldred, Rachel. 2013. Cycling’s Sensory Strategies: How Cyclists Mediate their Exposure to the Urban Environment. Mobilities, 9(2), pp. 238-255. ISSN 1745-0101
- Getting there… and back: how ethnographic commuting (by bicycle) shaped a study of Australian backyard technologists Jungnickel, Katrina. 2013. Getting there… and back: how ethnographic commuting (by bicycle) shaped a study of Australian backyard technologists. Qualitative Research, 14(6), pp. 640-655. ISSN 1468-7941
- Matter in or out of place? Bicycle parking strategies and their effects on people, practices and places Aldred, Rachel and Jungnickel, Katrina. 2013. Matter in or out of place? Bicycle parking strategies and their effects on people, practices and places. Social & Cultural Geography, 14(6), pp. 604-624. ISSN 1464-9365
- Constructing Mobile Places between ‘Leisure’ and ‘Transport’: A Case Study of Two Group Cycle Rides Aldred, Rachel and Jungnickel, Katrina. 2012. Constructing Mobile Places between ‘Leisure’ and ‘Transport’: A Case Study of Two Group Cycle Rides. Sociology, 46(3), pp. 523-539. ISSN 0038-0385
- On being 'out there': Experiencing, examining and representing cycling cultures. Jungnickel, Katrina. 2012. On being 'out there': Experiencing, examining and representing cycling cultures. Off Tour,
- Exhibiting ethnographic knowledge: Making sociology about makers of technology Jungnickel, Kat. 2010. Exhibiting ethnographic knowledge: Making sociology about makers of technology. Street Signs, pp. 32-35. ISSN 2043-0124
Kat Jungnickel
Kat researches invention, mobilities, gender and DIY tech communities of practice
Staff details
Kat's research explores the role of technologies in relation to mobilities, bodies, gender and DiY cultures. Drawing on STS and Feminist Technoscience, she explores how people radically re-invent and re-imagine socio-political worlds with mundane and ordinary things.
Making and engaging are integral to Kat’s work. Her multi-dimensional practice research spans from time-lapse videos and enquiry-machines to installations and costumes. She started “speculative sewing” in the Bikes & Bloomers research and develops this further in her ERC funded Politics of Patents (POP) project about citizenship, invention and 200 years of wearable-tech. This approach stitches together theory, data and methods into 3D arguments. It opens up for discussion embodied, object-oriented and performative ways of thinking with and about inventive forms of knowledge transmission.
She is PI on the ERC funded “Politics of Patents: Re-imagining citizenship via clothing inventions” and Director of Methods Lab
Research interests
Kat’s research combines critical analysis and inventive practice with a commitment to public engagement. Her focus on mobilities, bodies, gender and DiY cultures contributes to STS, feminist technoscience and queer studies. Her approach is informed by an interest in making arguments in multi-dimensional forms.
Kat has a track record for rigorous, original and interdisciplinary funded research. She has experience leading multi-scaled projects and teams, developing inventive methods and new modes of knowledge transmission. These include ESRC, AHRC, college and industry grants and an ERC consolidator grant.
Projects include:
Politics of Patents - PI
POP is an ambitious European Research Council 5yr project that examines 200yrs of clothing inventions in the European Patent Office and other sites. Kat leads a team of sewing social scientists in the POPLab using quantitative, in-depth visual and document analysis, ethnography, interviews and speculative sewing – making and wearing historic data – to develop insights into the history of invention, wearable technology and citizenship.
Bikes & Bloomers - PI
B&B explores Victorian cycling, early wearable technology and radical feminist cultures of invention. It combines archival research with the making of a collection of “convertible” cycle costumes, inspired by 1890s patents. Kat led an interdisciplinary team - tailor, artist, weaver, researchers - to make costumes, give talks, workshops, performances and exhibitions. The project resulted in a book, articles, animations, time-lapse videos and open access sewing pattern packs.
Transmissions - PI
Transmissions is an ESRC/ Intel funded project that brought together a range of researchers in and outside the academy to explore, critique and foster knowledge exchange around inventive methods and knowledge transmission. Held in UK, US and Germany, events featured talks, workshops, exhibitions and performances. An edited book was published by MIT Press.
Publications and research outputs
Book
- Creative Practice Ethnographies Hjorth, Larissa; Harris, Anne M.; Jungnickel, Kat and Coombs, Gretchen. 2020. Creative Practice Ethnographies. Lanham, Maryland: Lexington Books. ISBN 9781498572125
- Bikes and Bloomers: Victorian Women Inventors and their Extraordinary Cycle Wear Jungnickel, Kat. 2018. Bikes and Bloomers: Victorian Women Inventors and their Extraordinary Cycle Wear. London: Goldsmiths Press. ISBN 9781906897758
- DIY WiFi: Re-imagining Connectivity Jungnickel, Katrina. 2014. DIY WiFi: Re-imagining Connectivity. Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan. ISBN 978-1-137-31252-5
Edited Book
- Wearable Utopias: Imagining, Inventing, and Inhabiting New Worlds Jungnickel, Kat; Fowles, Ellen; May, Katja and Pugh, Nikki, eds. 2024. Wearable Utopias: Imagining, Inventing, and Inhabiting New Worlds. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press. ISBN 9780262548250
- How to do social research with… Coleman, Rebecca; Jungnickel, Kat and Puwar, Nirmal, eds. 2024. How to do social research with…. London: Goldsmiths Press. ISBN 9781913380427
- Failurists: When Things Go Awry Lammes, Sybille; Jungnickel, Kat; Hjorth, Larissa and Rae, Jen, eds. 2023. Failurists: When Things Go Awry. Amsterdam: Institute of Network Cultures. ISBN 9789083328201
Book Section
- How to do social research with... sewing Jungnickel, Kat. 2024. How to do social research with... sewing. In: Rebecca Coleman; Kat Jungnickel and Nirmal Puwar, eds. How to do social research with…. London: Goldsmiths Press, pp. 241-252. ISBN 9781913380427
- Cycling and Gender: Past, Present and Paths Ahead Bonham, Jennifer and Jungnickel, Kat. 2022. Cycling and Gender: Past, Present and Paths Ahead. In: Glen Norcliffe; Una Brogan; Peter Cox; Boyang Gao; Tony Hadland; Sheila Hanlon; Tim Jones; Nicholas Oddy and Luis Vivanco, eds. Routledge Companion to Cycling. Abingdon: Routledge, pp. 24-32. ISBN 9780367683993
- Doing Critical Creative Practice and Social Research Jungnickel, Kat and Hjorth, Larissa. 2020. Doing Critical Creative Practice and Social Research. In: Larissa Hjorth; Adriana de Souza e Silva and Klare Lanson, eds. The Routledge Companion to Mobile Media Art. New York: Routledge. ISBN 9780429242816
Article
- Convertible, multiple and hidden: The inventive lives of women’s sport and activewear 1890–1940 Jungnickel, Kat. 2024. Convertible, multiple and hidden: The inventive lives of women’s sport and activewear 1890–1940. Sociological Review, 72(3), pp. 588-610. ISSN 0038-0261
- From 100-year-old women’s motoring masks to contemporary PPE: A socio-political study of persistent problems and inventive possibilities Jungnickel, Kat and May, Katja. 2023. From 100-year-old women’s motoring masks to contemporary PPE: A socio-political study of persistent problems and inventive possibilities. Sociology, 57(6), pp. 1430-1449. ISSN 0038-0385
- Speculative sewing: Researching, reconstructing, and re-imagining wearable technoscience Jungnickel, Kat. 2023. Speculative sewing: Researching, reconstructing, and re-imagining wearable technoscience. Social Studies of Science, 53(1), pp. 146-162. ISSN 0306-3127
Conference or Workshop Item
- AHRC ProtoPublics Project Presentation - "The Dewey Organ" Jungnickel, Katrina; Fairfax, Duncan; Ballie, Jen and Wilkie, Alex. 2015. 'AHRC ProtoPublics Project Presentation - "The Dewey Organ"'. In: AHRC ProtoPublics Research Projects Presentation. AHRC Design Symposium, United Kingdom 25/09/2015.
- Live Transmissions: Critical conversations about crafting, performing and making Jungnickel, Kat. 2014. 'Live Transmissions: Critical conversations about crafting, performing and making'. In: Live Transmissions: Critical conversations about crafting, performing and making. London, United Kingdom 11-14 June 2014.
Design
- Bikes and Bloomers Pattern #5 Side-Button Cycling Skirt Jungnickel, Kat. 2018. Bikes and Bloomers Pattern #5 Side-Button Cycling Skirt.
- Bikes and Bloomers Pattern #4 Cycling Skirt/ Cape Jungnickel, Kat. 2018. Bikes and Bloomers Pattern #4 Cycling Skirt/ Cape.
- Bikes and Bloomers Pattern#2 Cycling Semi-Skirt Jungnickel, Kat. 2018. Bikes and Bloomers Pattern#2 Cycling Semi-Skirt.
Film/Video
- Women on the Move - film and afterword Jungnickel, Kat and Syndicate, Adventure. 2023. Women on the Move - film and afterword.
- Women on the Move Trailer Jungnickel, Kat and Syndicate, Adventure. 2023. Women on the Move Trailer.
- Goldsmiths research questions: What secrets did Victorian cyclists hide in their wardrobes? Jungnickel, Kat. 2018. Goldsmiths research questions: What secrets did Victorian cyclists hide in their wardrobes?.
Show/Exhibition
- The Dewey Organ Project Jungnickel, Kat; Fairfax, Duncan; Ballie, Jen and Wilkie, Alex. 2015. The Dewey Organ Project. In: "Imagination Festival", Govanhill Baths, Glasgow, United Kingdom, 4-6 September 2015.
Thesis
- Making WiFi: A Sociological Study of Backyard Technologists in Suburban Australia Jungnickel, Katrina. 2008. Making WiFi: A Sociological Study of Backyard Technologists in Suburban Australia. Doctoral thesis, Goldsmiths, University of London
