Of Clothes and Clay: Conversations about interdisciplinary research translations

This article is about stories embedded in clothes and clay. We explore the “queer use” of patented historic clothing and reclaimed earth bowls. At first glance they appear to have little in common. Yet, they are intimate and mundane artefacts that hold things —bodies and food. They retain their own uses, and hold more, such as stories about lived pasts and imagined futures. Both are central to our research in sociology, art and landscape. We discuss how these ordinary artefacts become extra-ordinary translations in our interdisciplinary creative practice, helping us understand and respond to larger socio-political issues around gender equality, private/public space, citizenship and climate crisis.