Design process explication is an area of existing and continued practice in terms of research, learning and teaching with in the Department of Fashion and Textiles at The Glasgow School of Art (GSA). Research in this area has previously been carried out by Gilham and McGilp (2007) and McGilp and Stephen-Cran (2007). The CPJ method was developed for the taught postgraduate fashion and textiles programme at GSA and has been utilised for staff research. This paper analysed data collected from the Awaken Project (Stephen-Cran – Principal Investigator) to investigate the conceptual possibilities of reinterpreting archive material for contemporary textile design and related work. Britt, was one of fourteen creative practitioner who took part in the project and contributed to the data analysis and dissemination phases of the investigation.

The Awaken Project resulted in an exhibition (Mackintosh Gallery, GSA, 24 January - 28 February 2009), post conference publication (ISBN 978 0 9560317 4 7) and a seminar for archivists, to increase awareness of approaches to working with archival resources. Aspects of the Awaken Project have been by further disseminated via conference papers and selected symposium presentation including:

Britt, H. & Stephen-Cran, J. (2013) 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.

Britt, H. (2013) Inspirational Archives: Examining Utilisation by Textile and Fashion Practitioners. Textile Society: New Research Strategies II. Wellcome Collection, London, 16 March 2013.

Stephen-Cran, J., Britt, H. & McGilp, H. (2013) Inspiring Influences: Examining Creative Process Journals to Enhance Fashion & Textiles Design Knowing. Knowing (by) Designing. Proceedings of the conference 'Knowing (by) Designing' at LUCA, Sint Lucas School of Architecture Brussels, 22-23 May 2013. Brussels: LUCA, Sint Lucas School of Architecture Ghent/Brussels; KU Lenven, Faculty of Architecture.