Footwear for Barefoot

Creator

Bao, Qian Cheng, Steven 包乾成

Title

Subject

Industrial design -- China -- Hong Kong -- Exhibitions

College graduates

Date Created

2019-06-27

Relation

PolyU Design - Projects gallery

Hong Kong X Foundation FYP+ Supporting Scheme TOP40 Projects

PolyU Proof-of-Concept (POC) Fund 2019

Format

Photographs

Identifier

ASSD2019BAPDD09P001

ASSD2019BAPDD09P002

Is Part Of

BA (Hons) in Product Design

Award Winning

Description

Footwear for Barefoot

In the East Africa and Third World countries because of poverty, more than half of the people don’t have shoes and a large part of people are affected by foot bacteria and parasites.

Some Africans use abandoned tires to make shoes. even though tire sandals have many defects, abandoned tires are cheapest, most endurable material they can find. And the strong local style already made the tire shoes become an icon of African footwear.

This project will design footwear in ‘Modern Tribal’ style to attract customers from developed countries raising attention towards those populations in need. The design is inspired by the tire shoes and will use tire as a key material. each of the reclaimed tires will be sliced and made into 1 pair of high-ended shoes and several pairs of basic shoes, the high-ended shoes are for civilized world customers, and the profit will be used for delivering the rest basic shoes to the Africans in need.

This project builds a bridge between the developed countries' consumers to third world countries' people. The footwear design raised consumers' attention and provide them a chance to get into action, purchase the shoes to give barefoot people shoes, This is the reason why the project is called "Footwear for barefoot".

Awards and recognition

Hong Kong X Foundation FYP+ Supporting Scheme TOP40 Projects
PolyU Proof-of-Concept (POC) Fund 2019

Collection

PolyU Design Annual Show 2019: beyond the surface = 二〇一九理大設計年展: 表裡以外