Cloak →
Yuanjia Cai for Alice Motion
Alice Motion is a chemist and science communicator at the University of Sydney whose research and practice explore ways to connect people with science. Alice is also a key member of the CLOAK team.
Fashion + Textiles program at UTS.
“When Yuanjia presented me with my CLOAK, it was a very special moment. I don’t wear a lab coat very often anymore, apart from when I’m teaching. In the first workshop, we talked about how I try to balance my time between research, teaching and science communication. I think that’s why she chose to create an extra pair of arms for me; another pair of imaginary hands sitting in the sleeves as my own slipped through the slits in the side of the coat. We also chatted about one of my science heroes, Nobel prize winner Prof Tu YouYou; I made a very rough sketch of her while we were talking and it made it into the fabric of the cloak. I love the punk feel of the garment. It resonates with my desire to rethink the way that we do, teach and share science and who has ‘permission’ to take part. A do-it-yourself science, as it were, one that empowers people who haven’t always felt included to take part.”