Spaces between stitches

Set in 2086, after the collapse of the UK manufacturing industry, society has become increasingly disconnected through reliance on social media and AI. This project draws from the history of embroidery and the embroidery hoop, exploring how a craft once dismissed as domestic held powerful messages of protest, identity and female solidarity. Located within Nottingham’s former Lace Market, the Lace Market Car Park is reimagined as a space that adapts to the social and cultural needs of the future. At the centre of the project is “The Binding Circle”, a group of women resisting the technological conditions of 2086 by redefining embroidery as an act of rebellion, using the embroidery hoop to shape spaces that reconnect people and communities.