Footwear and the Future

This project explores footwear in relation to trend and future forecasting with my final report reflecting future societal trends, formulated through extensive, speculative research. This allows viewers to visualise how society will interact and function in the year 2120. These trends were created using my research throughout the project, I focused heavily on the ways in which our footwear helps and hinders our overall health and explored how this may affect us in the future. My investigation into current events provided me with a source of inspiration when formulating my future trends as I was able to theorise how the issues we face in society today would directly affect how those in the future live their lives and interact with one another. For example I looked into aspects such as the effects of the Climate Crisis, technological advancements and the outbreak of Covid-19, all three of these things sure to have a massive effect on how we live our lives in the future. A big thing that helped with my trend prediction research was to explore human development and growth and the factors that affect these things. This enabled me to consider both past and future speculations in relation to footwear. Using this method of analysis, I was able to create footwear with the needs of the wearer in mind. View my final animated report 'Future Forecast 2120' using this link: https://indd.adobe.com/view/c7e5b3f0-1770-4161-9fc7-b5598e5414e2