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ENTROPIC DESIGN "KAJOLA" FOOTWEAR SERIES = Plant skin is an internal structural element which is essential for all plant life to thrive. It is through this element that plants have diversified their shape, form, structural and reactive properties that make them unique. Its an elemental botanical binder than supports plants internal functions, immune system, and protection from externalities. The chemical elements that are held within its internal molecular structure make it a perfect additive to the creation of plant based materials with skin like properties. When embed with material science field research additives, these materials react as if they were still plant skin in a living form, yet have new molecular properties of tension based on the natural additives that control their decay rate along with environmental fluctuations. With this in mind Olaniyi Studio has an ongoing design research project around how agricultural waste, natural fibres, and root extracts can create living footwear using plant skin. Agbo-Ola’s design aim was to create a multi-layered component based series of entropic shoes that will decay as they are worn, while providing medicinal properties to the foot of the wearer as well as have reactive exchanges with the environment. This process would happen when heat is accumulated in the shoe; the inner plant based skin would melt or react over time releasing the medicinal extracts from the sole’s skin into the foot of the wearer. The collection of footwear will evolve based on the properties of the roots that are used in the future, and will act to establish multiple uses for plant skins and roots. “Our goal is to experiment and fabricate a higher trajectory of exposure for applications of re-use, re-cycle, and re-connection with natural yet entropic systems of production. [KAJOLA 2021 Y.Agbo-Ola]
Design Components = External Plant Skin + Cassava Internal Skin + Soil
Design Formula = Aloe Skin Extract + H2O + Burdock Root Skin + Cyanobacteria Pigment
KAJOLA] Collection: [FEx352.8]-[9oi]
Upper Material Composition: Indian Clay + Black Clay + Cacao Roots + Cacao Powder + Ce[U]12i + Matter Dye + Volcanic Dust + Lava Pebbles + Black Pearl Extract + Nansemond River Clay + Iron Oxide
Outer Sole Composition: Grey Sandstone Clay + Ce[U]12i + Iron Oxide + Cotton Fibre
[KAJOLA] Collection: [FEx471.3]-[9oi]
Upper Material Composition: Diorite Particles + Palm Acid + Black Berry H2O + Elder Berry Dye + Zinc Ce[U]12i + Lizard Urine + Orange Pulp + Lava Ash
Outer Sole Composition: Banana Fibre + Ce[U]12i + Cotton Fibre
[KAJOLA] Collection: [FEx824.7]-[9oi]
Upper Material Composition: White Trillium Flower Extract + Greek Island Clay + Zinc + Pine Sap + Algae Soil + Henna + Ce[U]12i + Carnelian Particles + Sandstone Mica
Outer Sole Composition: Grey Sandstone Clay + Ce[U]12i + Iron Oxide + Cotton Fibre
[KAJOLA] Collection: [FEx928.1]-[9oi]
Upper Material Composition: Henna + Sulphur Clay + Ce[U]12i + Yellow Iron Oxide Clay + Tumeric Root + Ginger + Cayenne Pepper Dye + Lotus Ash + Honey + Ocean Silica
Outer Sole Composition: Grey Sandstone Clay + Ce[U]12i + Cotton Fibre
[KAJOLA] Collection: [FEx645.9]-[9oi]
Upper Material Composition: Red Jasper Dust + Desert Silica + Algae Fibre + Violet Volcanic Ash + Peat + Coconut Shells + Almond Milk Pulp
Outer Sole Composition: Pyracantha Berries + Turmeric + Ce[U]12i + Cotton Fibre
[KAJOLA] Collection: [FEx555.4]-[9oi]
Upper Material Composition: Coconut Milk + Cashew Milk + Hibiscus Dye + Apricot Agate Fragment + Ce[U]12i + Red Jasper Dust + Desert Silica
Outer Sole Composition: Soil + Jute Fibre + Ce[U]12i + Cotton Fibre
KAJOLA] Collection: [FEx352.8]-[9oi]
Upper Material Composition: Indian Clay + Black Clay + Cacao Roots + Cacao Powder + Ce[U]12i + Matter Dye + Volcanic Dust + Lava Pebbles + Black Pearl Extract + Nansemond River Clay + Iron Oxide
Outer Sole Composition: Grey Sandstone Clay + Ce[U]12i + Iron Oxide + Cotton Fibre
KAJOLA] Collection: [FEx352.8]-[9oi]
Upper Material Composition: Indian Clay + Black Clay + Cacao Roots + Cacao Powder + Ce[U]12i + Matter Dye + Volcanic Dust + Lava Pebbles + Black Pearl Extract + Nansemond River Clay + Iron Oxide
Outer Sole Composition: Grey Sandstone Clay + Ce[U]12i + Iron Oxide + Cotton Fibre
KAJOLA] Collection: [FEx352.8]-[9oi]
Upper Material Composition: Indian Clay + Black Clay + Cacao Roots + Cacao Powder + Ce[U]12i + Matter Dye + Volcanic Dust + Lava Pebbles + Black Pearl Extract + Nansemond River Clay + Iron Oxide
Outer Sole Composition: Grey Sandstone Clay + Ce[U]12i + Iron Oxide + Cotton Fibre
[KAJOLA] Collection: [FEx747.0]-[9oi]
Upper Material Composition: Brazil Nut Bark + Cashew Fruit Skin + Baobab Wood Pulp + Ce[U]12i + Burdock Root Pulp + Cassava Skin + River Soil + Hibiscus Dye
Outer Sole Composition: Coconut Fibre + Grey Sandstone Clay + Ce[U]12i + Cotton Fibre
[KAJOLA] Collection: [FEx695.8]-[9oi]
Upper Material Composition: Hazel Nut Bark + Walnut Shell + Baobab Wood Pulp + Ce[U]12i + Cacao Root Pulp + River Clay + Turmeric Dye
Outer Sole Composition: Coconut Fibre + Hemp Fibre + Ce[U]12i + Cotton Fibre
KAJOLA] Collection: [FEx352.8]-[9oi]
Upper Material Composition: Blue iron phosphate pigment + Zinc + Cobalt Dust + Indigo + Dehydrated Soil + Mica Ash + Ce[U]12i
Outer Sole Composition: Soil + Jute Fibre + Mica + Ce[U]12i + Cotton Fibre
[KAJOLA] Collection: [FE99.3]-[9oi]
Upper Material Composition: Amazonian Poison Dart Frog Skin Dye + Coconut Shells + Dried Rose Fiber + Cochineal insect Dye + Ginger Root Fiber + Ce[U]12i + Red Parrot Wing Dust + Mica
Outer Sole Composition: Turmeric Dust + Dried Banana Fiber + Red River Clay/Stone + Jute Fibre + Ce[U]12i + Cotton Fibre
KAJOLA] Collection: [FEx352.8]-[9oi]
Upper Material Composition: Dehydrated Compost Soil + Lemon Pepper + Ce[U]12i + Matter Root Dye + Peach Stems + Honey + Jabuticaba Seed Fragments + Yellow Bromeliad Dye
Outer Sole Composition: Soil + Jute Fibre + Ce[U]12i + Iron Oxide + Cotton Fibre
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