This is a really long post but bear with me, its a changing point in the project!
One of the objectives i have to meet for the Play stage of this project is to work on the story. Apart from proving I can make shoes I personally think this is one of the most important aspects of the project. The story comprises of the thinking and social context of the project. Why am I doing what I am doing?
Well I've been working on my story. I've been thinking and yesterday I did some free writing where i just wrote for 5 minuets on a topic from my project to try and get the momentum. I wrote about what i wanted to achieve and the aesthetic. This worked well in getting my mind flowing but was mostly just gibberish!
Today I went back to the story. I feel I need to get the story and theme of the project right before i can actually start designing and clarify the end result as this will influence the form and characteristics of my project. Here's the start of today's thinking:
-clogs of the future
-plastic fantastic
-recycled technology
-pretty cakes
-wooden wonders
-new wood
-industrial wasteland
-hard wood
-pain and pleasure
When I got to here I was defiantly struggling with my thinking. Then I came across designer and Illustrator Jasper Goodall
more themes arose like
-fantasy and reality
- dreams
-tomorrows shoes
-the future of feet
Then I realised that I have been working irrationally. I was trying to come up with a theme when i didn't even know what i wanted to represent, what influence i wanted to make.
Thinking back to my FIND stage, what was it i was looking at? What was the rational behind my FIND?
"So many people experience joy from their feet...How can you recreate and improve pleasure whilst reducing pain?"
I have therefore decided to go back to FEET instead of concentrating on SHOES. Don't get me wrong I'm still going to make shoes but they are going to concentrate on pleasures from the feet instead of "what new things can i so with shoes"
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hey so will the asethetics of the shoes represent a pleasure that you can feel from shoes? is that wat you mean, like warmth, comfort? or are you trying to recreate shoes that do these things for you and not look at the asethitics?
is this what you mean?
interesting that you got side tracked by shoes away from feet.
Have you heard the song - You need feet - by Bernard Bresslaw?
When you look at moon boots or those furry boots then you can do a awfull lot under that padding or fur with the boot or the foot without altering the aesthetic.
What about heated boots - or boots with warm sand in them to recreate the feeling of walking on a tropical beach.
Boots with live fish in them to eat the skin like in the theraputic pools.
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