Unpacking the potential of feminist building and making practices ‘Hard Wear, Soft Wear’, focuses on the pedagogical value of technical spaces in UK Art Schools. Through process of research, design and the fabrication of pieces of workwear ’Hard Wear, Soft Wear’ highlights the various skills and techniques that are being taught or have been lost since the period that the Handicraft course ran at Loughborough University.  Workwear often serves a communal purpose, with one apron or jacket accommodating multiple users, bodies and spaces. Through the means of communal use, often remnants of projects, tools, techniques, notes and drawings accumulate within the fabric serving as evidence of the inherited knowledge and skills acquired within technical learning spaces. 

 'Hard Wear, Soft Wear' focuses and references the history of the Handicraft Department at Loughborough Art College, and incorporates the technical knowledge and skills of current staff members. The crafted workwear provides a new design language within functional pieces created with traces of pedagogical, and passed on knowledge in mind.