The Footprintless shoe is a carbon-based innovation of 10xBeta , an international team of multidisciplinary designers and industrial thinkers based in America. They work together to rethink existing tools and design methods to enhance consumer and health products.
So with the NRG Carbon XPrize, we are encouraging really smart people from around the world to focus on how to take this byproduct, carbon dioxide, and turn it into something useful.
The team considered a number shoe designs during the early stages of the process. Earlier concepts also included high-top versions of a similar concept. There is a lot of research happening in the space around how to best capitalise on the CO2. However, it is not possible to produce these kinds of carbon-based materials in a cost-effective way on a massive scale β yet. In the age of Black Lives Matter, Occupy Wall Street and an incumbent Donald Trump presidency, one could conclude from the media that the United States is at the height of its protest action.
However, photographers have been documenting these expressions of citizen dissatisfaction for decades and now, a new exhibition aims to visually and historically demonstrate how this struggle for justice is nothing new. Our Streets! Featuring the work of 37 different photojournalists, the exhibition will include a range of striking images of protest action taken between the years and , none of which have ever been displayed together. Featuring the work of photographers like Ricky Flores , Clayton Patterson , and Lisa Kahane , the exhibition covers protests that targeted everything from racism, police brutality, war and queer activism, to abortion rights, housing issues, education and labour.
The only difference is that now more people are documenting themselves. With the goal of preserving this fundamental feature of American government for future generations, the exhibition also serves to aid in bridging the gaps in understanding that can often develop between generations of activists and protesters.
