Themes:

Ground: in our ancestral past, humans were walking on soft surfaces, like soil and grass; nowadays, we are walking on oftentimes harder surfaces, like cement and wooden floor, which requires shoes with more cushion, which then further change our foot, how we move and walk, and how we connect to the ground.

• nowadays shoes:

  • more commodified & less sustainable
    • boasting new high-tech cushions, creating needs
    • fast fashion trends, with more waste produced
    • made of not so sustainable or ethical materials, eg. plastic, animals fur & leather
  • cushion
    • less connected to the ground
    • ??may be more intrusive to the original ecology (kill the grass on the ground)??
  • beauty standards
    • toes are forced to be squeezed and pointed together
    • some materials may prioritize beauty and fashion over comfortabilty, eg. leather

• and it’s not only about shoes, but about the whole system and way of living, of how we relate… eg. the way the road is built, the way a city form, …

• reimagine shoes and how we walk

  • in future, where the receding nature can reappear and “take over” the current cement streets, where we can walk, gradually no longer relying on or so used to our current shoes, where we can walk, barefoot, feel the ground, feel the texture of the grass with morning dews, the fluffy fallen leaves, the soil, …
  • shoe: gradually from
  • family/local/community workshop

周四七点半后- together

• [x] bioyarn
• [ ] 蘑菇鞋底
• [ ] 种奇亚籽在洗脸巾上
• [x] 栗子碎
• [ ] 水果粉配方
• [ ] 偷根
• [ ] 本土种子research

【漫长的等待材料干和种子发芽🌱……