We are a London-based Design Collective. Our work spans from installations to performance and participatory live-experiences.
By augmenting reality through physical and digital means, we invite audiences to perform body politics as they join our collective experiences. Motivated by macro systems of social and political context, our work is guided by our understanding and knowledge of traditional making and offers a response on a micro-level; informed by fashion, textile and silversmithing techniques, we create wearable artefacts that expand the realms of wearable technology, meandering the fine line between gadget and garment, costume and avatar, and the interdependence between self and other.
The idea of the subject-object, best described in the metaphor of a mask that only truly comes into being when activated - is one that we have studied in our work by creating interactions with garments and devices that transform our relationship to others: being watched diverges from being the one watching, and our theatric experiences offer entry to ritual-like moments of dressing and becoming, whilst inviting the idea of gameplay, agency and interaction.
Peut-Porter’s work was exhibited and performed internationally. We have shown at the Venice Biennale, Design Museum London, Sadler’s Wells Theatre, Museum of London, Jerusalem Design Week, BFI London, Deutsches Technikmuseum, De Doelen Theatre Rotterdam - amongst others.
By augmenting reality through physical and digital means, we invite audiences to perform body politics as they join our collective experiences. Motivated by macro systems of social and political context, our work is guided by our understanding and knowledge of traditional making and offers a response on a micro-level; informed by fashion, textile and silversmithing techniques, we create wearable artefacts that expand the realms of wearable technology, meandering the fine line between gadget and garment, costume and avatar, and the interdependence between self and other.
The idea of the subject-object, best described in the metaphor of a mask that only truly comes into being when activated - is one that we have studied in our work by creating interactions with garments and devices that transform our relationship to others: being watched diverges from being the one watching, and our theatric experiences offer entry to ritual-like moments of dressing and becoming, whilst inviting the idea of gameplay, agency and interaction.
Peut-Porter’s work was exhibited and performed internationally. We have shown at the Venice Biennale, Design Museum London, Sadler’s Wells Theatre, Museum of London, Jerusalem Design Week, BFI London, Deutsches Technikmuseum, De Doelen Theatre Rotterdam - amongst others.
Peut-Porter is led by Alexa Pollmann and Bine Roth. Our projects are conceived with the help of many great individuals and some of our best work results from these collaborations. Their names can be found in each of the project pages.
Alexa Pollmann is a design-researcher with a background in fashion and an MA in Design Interactions (RCA). As Subject Leader in Wearable Technology at London College of Fashion (UAL) she works closely with the MA Fashion Futures in expanding fashion practice. Fostering discourse around fashion technology, she focusses on human representations in physical and digital realms: she designs bodies, avatars and interactions and uses critical and speculative design to craft narratives.
Bine Roth is a material specialist and trained jewellery designer with an MA in Textiles Mixed Media (RCA). Bine is a research tutor at the RCA, teaches on the MA Textile Design and researches smart textiles. She investigates haptic experiences and textile interfaces and her skillset reaches from coding to weaving, tinkering and experimenting with in digital and physical alike.