Britt and Bremner worked as collaborative creative practitioner-researcher participants for Awaken. Stephen-Cran was principle investigator, exhibition curator and editor of the post-exhibition publication for the Awaken Project. Britt presented the co-authored paper (Britt, Stephen-Cran and Bremner 2013) at Futurescan 2: Collective Voices (organised by the Association of Degree Courses in Fashion and Textiles) and subsequent related papers including: ‘Textile Design Utilisation of Archive Resources and the Creative Process Journal Method’, The 7th International Conference on Design Principles and Practices, Chiba University, Japan 6-8 March 2013; ‘Inspirational Archives: Examining Utilisation by Textile & Fashion Practitioners’, Textile Society - New Research Strategies II, Wellcome Collection, 16 March 2013.