Caskia: Growing a MarsBoot
- Submitting institution
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Ravensbourne University London
- Unit of assessment
- 32 - Art and Design: History, Practice and Theory
- Output identifier
- LC01
- Type
- T - Other
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- Location
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- Brief description of type
- Exhibited artefacts
- Open access status
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- Month
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- Year
- 2017
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- Supplementary information
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- Output has been delayed by COVID-19
- No
- COVID-19 affected output statement
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- Forensic science
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- Criminology
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- Interdisciplinary
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- Number of additional authors
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- Research group(s)
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- Proposed double-weighted
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- Reserve for an output with double weighting
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- Additional information
- The outputs submitted for assessment consist of the Mars Boot, first exhibited at MOMA, New York and subsequent variants illustrating iterative mycelium variant and 3D print design prototypes.
The outputs are supported with a contextual information template attached in a PDF format. Our contextual information template incorporates a section called ‘Output and Description’ which identifies and describes the submitted output for evaluation. The sections of the template that follow provide contextual information, such as research narrative, funding, dissemination, reception, which accompany the submitted output.
The primary research question was:
How to raise public/industry awareness of design-led opportunities and challenges moving from a plastic throwaway society towards biomaterials/renewable circular economies, convey associated 21st century cultural/ethical and advance novel material and design innovations via a reinterpretation of Tecnica’s 1972 Moon boot.
The aim being:
1. to advance material and design innovations for everyday products (footwear).
2. to raise public/industry awareness of design-led opportunities and challenges of biomaterials/renewable circular economies, and associated cultural/ethical values in material/design narratives.
The research focused on strategies for more sustainable material and fabrication design by proposing systems of manufacture in the enclosed ecosystem, space. In this design narrative material is brought in small and expanded via growth and 3D print processes with the wearers assistance and own sweat to make woman’s boots during the seven-month journey to Mars.
The work demonstrated the power of design to afford an engaging design narrative that captured people’s imagination and advanced material innovation through design application.
- Author contribution statement
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- Non-English
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- English abstract
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