AÑO
2021
CATEGORÍA
Cuerpo
OBJETIVOS
Salud y bienestar, Reducción de las desigualdades, Producción y consumo responsables
PAL. CLAVE
repair, Repair instead of throwing out, shoes, sustainable living, Singapore
PAÍS
Singapore
CRÉDITOS
Ng Luowei & Mervyn Chen
LINK
https://ngluowei.com/canvas
Canvas
Fix your once-great shoes with the use of a quick drying liquid rubber paint.
‘Canvas’ offers a visionary approach to the ‘make do and mend’ culture which fell out of fashion as goods became cheaper. Designers Ng Luowei and Mervyn Chen have repurposed quick-drying liquid rubber paint to become a material that can be used to restore and repair worn-out shoes in creative patterns. Shoe repair is democratised, and unique works emerge in every attempt to breathe new life into old favourites, thereby reducing the number of shoes that are unnecessarily thrown away each year. The work recalls old repairing cultures in the frugality of the impending economic recession due to the pandemic.