CAMPO (Adidas Brooklyn Creator Farm)

Objective

To understand the problem better, I relied on my years of experience from volunteering in the

Dominican Republic. My goal was to find out two things:

How can I enhance a child’s experience while playing?
How can I protect the child’s feet throughout the day?

From this I found that children enjoyed the feeling of the ground beneath their feet and therefore did not always enjoy wearing shoes. However, they were still worried about causing harm to their feet.

Ideation

Sketches focused around ensuring that the underfoot experience was minimal, yet protective. While also incorporating handwoven materials that campos can produce themselves.

Weaving

I began creating handwoven swatches to incorporate in my design. I found that by using unexpected materials, I could manipulate tensions in the weave, and deliberately place zones of lockdown.

Product Development

Creating the handwoven materials, dip-dying cotton rope, developing minimal underfoot experience, and exploring construction variation.

Final Prototypes

Hand-crafted at the Adidas Brooklyn Creator Farm MakerLab.