Future Footwear Foundation

19 Dec 2018

Do You Want Your Feet Back?

Future Footwear Foundation is thrilled to announce its first book! " Do You Want Your Feet Back? Barefoot Cobblers " Els Roelandt & Catherine Willems (eds.) 19 x 27 cm, 148 p, ills colour, dust jacket, EnglishISBN 9789490800994design: 6′56″ edition of 1500 € 28,00- About the book: What makes Catherine Willems’ work on “future footwear” so appealing is its promise to leapfrog more than 150 years of industrialization, with all its attendant afflictions—environmental des truc tion, depletion of

27 Jun 2017

Barefoot Seminar 1

By catherine willems

On June 27th we had a full day seminar in Ghent, where the futurefootwearfoundation advisory board members introduced themselves, the centers that they represent, how they relate to futurefootwearfoundation, and the students involved in futurefootwearfoundation presented their work. In the seminar all three pillars of our foundation came together: Design, Anthropology and Biomechanics. From L to R : catherinewillems, founder of futurefootwearfoundation - els_roelandt from schoolofartsgent - board member eelko_moorer from lcflondon_ - board member Kristiaan D'Aôut from university of Liverpool -

16 May 2016

Ju’/hoan San and the evolution of footwear

By catherine willems

Reflections, October 2015. By Catherine Willems. I am in Namibia. The thermometer indicates 32 degrees Celsius. This is my first time in Southern Africa. The purpose of my visit is to remake the indigenous hunting sandal with the Ju’/hoan San of Nyae Nyae in Namibia, near the border of Botswana. At the same time I will investigate the impact of the leather sandal on gait. The biomechanics of movement; example of the pressure plate set

12 May 2016

KICKSTARTER: THE ORIGINAL SAN-DAL

By catherine willems

https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/vivobarefoot/the-original-san-dal Shoes should allow your feet to do their natural thing — the way they have done for tens of thousands of years. Own a pair of the original bushman San-dals, designed for persistence hunting and barely changed for thousands and thousands of