In the current environmental crisis, seasons and natural disasters are gradually getting more and more extreme. As a consequence urban and wildfires are increasing in frequency and intensity. Some even refer to the profession as being on the front line of climate change.

In parallel to those drastic changes, firefighting is still very much a male-dominated profession, where women are continuously challenged both from a social and a physiological viewpoint. The first female fire-fighter was integrated into the force only little over 40 years ago in Canada, and fire halls are now actively working to recruit women, and failing. In 2019, the Vancouver municipal fire department reported only 3% of the Urban firefighting force as females. However, female professionals and volunteers struggle with their equipment on a daily basis, increasing the effort they need to produce for efficiency and compromising their safety as well as the civilians’, and possibly even the whole team’s. 

The aim of this project is to design a pocket which will be useful for female firefighters and assist them in the various tasks that need to be performed, the equipment that needs to be carried and the nature of the physical activities exerted.