In front of my house I made mud smooth and then made my footprint and filled it with water, decorated it with grasses, leaves, small plants and people and cattle made from clay<br /><br />My footprint in mud looks like a village map. In my foot print you can see my village. My village is a beautiful place; the river is flowing and everything is growing naturally. And in the village our carbon footprint is little.

Cardboard, plastic, paper, paper straws, magazine cuttings, pipe cleaners, ribbon, pegs and googly eyes.<br /><br />Each foot shows different ways recycling items could be used. Rather than buying paper use cardboard and magazine cuttings for a fun activity. Explain to your children (the future generation) about recycling and how to use things to help with climate change. The footprints also represent going for a walk rather than driving and they are hanging on a washing as it's more environmentally friendly than using a tumble dryer, and using up more energy.

Flowers, mini skateboard, pottery shoe<br /><br />My fantasy footwear is made from my boys tech deck fingerboard, a tiny red pottery shoe, and some little lobelia flowers picked from my garden.

Paper, paint, sequins and feathers

Waste materials like cardboard, newspaper, colour and glue<br /><br />The puzzle looks like a flat plate which is square in shape. This is a game which can be played alone and when sometimes we have no partner to spend our time with.

Handmade paper, water colour, pen.<br /><br />Through my art I wanted to warn about the enormity of carbon footprints. A single wrong step of mankind in their daily lifestyle can cause a huge devastation in mother nature. The enormity of our every single step is shown through this one giant footstep of my picture.

Thread, fallen leaves (mango, jasmine, water apple, betel)

Waste products like cardboard, colour and glue

Bioplastic made of Agar agar, gelatin and glycerine with turmeric as an additive<br /><br />The footwear is based on a bioplastic made using household items, namely agar agar, gelatine (a waste by-product of the food industry) and glycerine with turmeric as a colorant agent. It is flexible and beautifully reflects direct light. It has a unique grainy texture, and is sewn together using a sewing machine. The strips adorned have ochre undertone due to the addition of turmeric for texture.<br /><br />The footwear is inspired by the act of creating craft while minimising the harm. The material has significantly lower carbon footprint and exercises one’s creativity to form innumerable textures, properties and colours. It is also biodegradable, and can be used as a cast for various food and household waste thereby increasing its life.

Waste products like cardboard, paper and wood.<br /><br />This footwear is made for the future. Whenever I feel sad, I wish to wear this footwear and imagine the best thing that can happen to me in future. This is like a dream space where I sort things out with my peace of mind and work for my better future.

Paper cardboard and paint

Sugar, butter, eggs, flour, milk, fondant, vanilla extract, jam, food colouring, wooden dowels, cake board, cake tin, butterfly cutter, flower cutters, mini gardening tools and knife<br /><br />Freshly baked using U.K. and/or fair trade ingredients, this cake was made as an homage to all the wellies and shoes that have been recycled by gardeners all over the world as a way of displaying their beautiful flowers. Its butterfly design honouring our precious pollinators the world needs to keep our planet thriving and green.<br /><br />Recipes CAKE - 3 cups self raising flour - 2 1/2 cups plain flour - 4 cups caster sugar - 2 cup butter - 2 cup milk - 8 eggs - vanilla extract BUTTERCREAM - 1 kilo icing sugar - 500g butter - vanilla extract - having mixed all the cake ingredients, split between two cake tins and bake for one and a half hours. Whilst the cake is baking the buttercream is made. Once cooled the cake is then cut using a template to the correct shape. Spreading the jam and buttercream between each layer, the cake is stacked and shaped before being coated in a final layer of buttercream. The wooden dowels are used to help support the structure. The cake is then placed in the fridge to chill. To cover the cake the fondant is divided and coloured with the required food colours. To cover the boot, the blue fondant is rolled out and gently placed over the cake. Smoothing as you go to ensure there are no air bubbles and the fondant sticks to the buttercream. Cover the cake board with the green fondant and leave to set. Using the butterfly cutter, cut out the shape from the covered cake. Roll out fondant in the contrasting colour and using the cutter replace the spaces made in the fondant. Once the fondant has set, move the cake to its final board. With the remaining coloured fondant, cut out flowers and foliage. Using the brown fondant shape branches and arrange these along with the flowers on top of the cake. Add finishing touches of fondant grass and gardening tools.

Fabric, cardboard and ribbon <br /><br />Soft little shoes for young children to wear.

Felt tip pens and paper

iPhone, trainers and some cardboard

Craft paper, glue, foil, paper, colours, markers<br /><br />Shoe Flower - has the power of becoming a flower after the shoe is worn out and decomposed. It is made of natural materials that can become a flower.

Cow dung cakes, kerosene oil and match box<br /><br />Even today, in rural India, cow dung cakes and timber is one of the main resources for cooking food. Almost every household in our rural area cook food on the stove (chulha) using cow dung and cakes (chipdi). Along with this, people also light up cow dung cakes to prevent themselves from mosquito bites and insects. Litti-Chokha, a popular dish of our community, requires a huge amount of ‘Goyatha’ or ‘Uplay’ (Cow dung). As a result, a huge amount of carbon is emitted in the environment around us. To represent this problem, we use cow dungs and cakes that are used for cooking in the community. Using these, children have created our planet on which half the part is covered with a footprint. The rest of the planet is covered with fumes, portraying the major reason for carbon emission in rural India.

Bubble bath and water

Paper & Paint<br /><br />.Paper, paint and glass crystals

Charcoal on paper.<br /><br />My foot, carrying my weight. Flexing, taut, sometimes sore. Supporting, never complaining, but enduring. Dirty, sometimes clean. Smelly, sometimes fresh. Rough, cut and peeling, sometimes renewed and buoyant. Like the earth, my foot is very able, but equally fragile. It wants to serve and is, at times, abused, it tries and tries to regenerate but the demands at times are too much. The day will come when the regeneration wanes, the energy and regrowth the dwindles and it can no longer support the selfish demands for being squashed into shoes, walking, tennis, dancing, me me me, what I want, what can you give ME? Rarely asking what do they need from me? Earth, land nature as we call it. We are intrinsically connected and interdependent. Earth, what do you need from me? I’m listening.

Waste ply wood, wooden sticks, waste plastic, chocolate wrappers, waste clothes, wall putty, iron nail, grass, waste shoe, glue, stone, wire, waste box, plastic cow, soil, paint Instrument used- Harmonium, Dholak, Kasht Tarang and Stones<br /><br />The project Chimney ka Dhuan depicts that nature wants to evolve in its own way, but the human development activities (the shoe) is thwarting the greenery around us. Villages in India are also left touched by these rapid development activities. There are many factors that contribute to carbon emissions in the villages, such as brick kiln chimneys, motorcycles, other public transport and deforestation. People are also not aware about the appropriate methods of disposing plastic waste which can be seen rotting in the narrow village streets. The polluted streets and fields vastly impact animals as they lose their source of nutrition and have nowhere to go. Such continuous anthropogenic interference in the climate system will lead to a life full of chronic diseases and problems if not stopped.

Terracotta pot, earth, feet (hidden)

Poetry fitted inside the shape of a foot

Discarded oven mitts & leaves that fell in the storm last evening

Cardboard, egg box, elastic and net

An organic cotton, plant based fibre shoe. Aiming to manufacture sneakers made of the most ecological materials and involving ethics. The pair of rubbers are made of ecological cotton which could return nutrients to the soil.

Lego bricks and time

Recycled fabric, cardboard, paper

Cardboard, bottle cap, plastic hangers (waste), grains (gram and wheat), mud, gum, grass and yellow and blue sellotape

Recycled packing material

Wool blankets & garden string. <br /><br />A shoe completely adjustable to any foot size - simply untie the string and re-wrap the blanket.

Fuzzy socks, decorative flowers and leaves

The materials that I used are plastic bottles, steel caps, plastic hanger, cellotape and a broken badminton shuttle. I made a recycled bottle shoe for my Millipede project. My shoe looks like a flying insect with wings.<br /><br />I chose to make shoes from waste bottles and other materials I found in the dustbin. I made bottle shoes because we have already polluted our planet and many plastics are flying around on earth. Very few people are thinking of making something out of used plastics because most people want new things. The message of my shoes is that we shouldn't pollute our earth but try to use what we have already, and only then go to new things. Reuse is also economical.

Prosthetic feet, trainer shoe, cd and camera

Fabric, an old stole, natural indigo, lime and seawater <br /><br />Clothing and fast fashion in particular is one of the major contributors to water pollution. Firstly they use a lot of fresh water which is our only source of drinking water, secondly they make it toxic, unfit for any life-form. We, at ColorAshram are a team of dedicated members who keep researching and documenting innovative ways to apply natural colours on fabric, paper and more. When we were in Goa for a workshop, we accidentally discovered that sea water can be an excellent resource for making an indigo vat. This is what we decided to present for our shoe submission.

Paper, a tree and lots of sun

Paper, fabric, glitter

Waste fabrics like handwoven cotton & linen, pieces of jute rope & burlap patches, coconut buttons, food waste including potato, avocado & onion peels & leftover all purpose flour<br /><br />These pieces have been constructed by hand from food & fabric waste. The idea is to not waste even a single piece of jute rope or potato peel. By stitching patches of cloth together, or drying & then attaching cuts of vegetable peels like a sheet of mosaic, we have re-created a whole from little pieces that were discarded during the production of food for a cafe and garments for a store. In a world in which, there is too much wastage & we consume & produce in excess, we need to focus our attention on reusing what we tend to throw away instead of buying something new. We need to go on a shopping diet from time to time, and that means having to make do with what we have and to reimagine the old. These shoes represent that very ethos. Created by artisans Vineeta (a Madhubani artist from Bihar), Mithali (a student of fashion design), and conceptualised by Sulagna (a self taught designer), the Sienna fam has attempted to create responsible footwear of the future.

Paper, flowers, old jeans, rubber, string, metal and old travel tickets

Felt slippers, pen, paper, photograph and words

Steel, electricity and not the car!

Chart, paint, glue, scissors, cardboard, golden border designs, golden sheet, brown sheet, tape and feviquick (a type of super glue)

Steve Madden shoe, weed webbing, peat-free compost, cacti, metal button badges<br /><br />We upcycled a shoe that would otherwise have been thrown out. The shoe chosen is a stiletto style, not known for comfort, but a very powerful style, often used to show dominance. The black colour is generally associated with business, and this was chosen deliberately, rather than choosing a floral, or brightly coloured shoe. The idea to use this as a planter came from the display in a local kindergarten where wellingtons that were no longer watertight had been re-purposed as planters, and placed on the ground to form a colourful display. We wanted to use formal adult footwear as an alternative to the better known children’s boots. The shoe was lined with weed webbing to create a ‘pocket’ for the peat-free compost, and the compost packed inside the shoe. For us, these cacti are significant, as the Gardens lost many species due to neglect, and these are some that we managed to save. Cacti themselves are included in Appendix II of the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora, which lists species that are not necessarily now threatened with extinction but that may become so unless trade is closely controlled.’ Our native spiky thistle, while similar in some respects, is more used to rain, where cacti cope with drought; more used to cold, where cacti are more used to heat; and is certainly not endangered, being found, as it often is, in gardens, by roadsides, and in fields. The additional metal button badges were added to remind observers that recycling benefits us all.

Solar and Battery Power. <br /><br />These shoes have many abilities. They can make you fly above 40mtr and I have created it for two purposes 1. using these shoes we can travel long and short distances without any pollution 2. they allow u to go up to 300km per hour these shoes use solar power as their energy source. At night or cloudy times, they use two extra batteries in the shoe which make u fly anytime. These shoes keep u warm in cold climates and cool at hot climates. Thank You

Pen and paper

Paper, flowers, old jeans, rubber, string, metal and old travel tickets

Pen and paper

Bottle gourd, brinjal, ladies fingers, bodi (long bean) and local fruits (looks like peas but not peas)<br /><br />It looks like a caterpillar. It is green and decorated with different types of village vegetables. I attached the vegetables using spikes that had fallen from a broom made of dried coconut tree leaves. All the materials I used were not usable, I bought nothing from the market. Maybe our animals can eat them but not humans. All were local vegetables and fruits which I use in my daily life. I am surrounded by these things.<br /><br />Through this project I wanted to reduce the carbon footprint by being simple and not very luxurious. I wanted to add greenery which can shape a green future world. Instead of a carbon footprint I wanted to make a green footprint with my shoes and add beauty. These shoes are decorated with different types of vegetables that I picked in our village. All the vegetables are different from each other, taste is also different but still their message is the same. It also tells that this world is not only for humans but for other creatures too. My story is about a balanced world between humans and all other life.

Grass, earth and the sun

Plastic, drawing and digital drawing<br /><br />The image in the photo was created by found plastic on a beach, except for the foot, which is bruised. It is being comforted by the hand, and on top of the foot is a bird-like shape, because birds are being damaged by our human waste. The two red shoes in the digital image were made after finding a very little red plastic shoe on a beach (I have a large collection of plastic found on beaches). The two shoes together also look like two birds, which connects to the photo. The third image is a drawing I made and it is simply someone who is very proud of their new green shoes.

Kathak-informed body, Kathak movements, ghungroo (bells), plants, leaves, images of human faces, paper, paint, padhant, typewriter sounds and audio track<br /><br />This piece is an exploration of how we as the human race are such an integral part of the cycle of nature but how we keep on destroying it for our own selfish gains. The video is our collective response to this intense exasperation as Kathak students and dancers, so we have tried to portray the damages, the carbon footprints and the apathy through the body and the language of Kathak. <br /><br />Footwork, the ghungroo (the bells), padhant - reciting rhythmic variations while keeping the beat - and mnemonic syllables with their euphonic effects are a very integral part of the Indian classical dance form Kathak, as are the sharp linear movements and the vertical stance.

Dough and vegetable peelings<br /><br />Dimensions: the dimensions of your stomach<br /><br />Taking the context of 'Migration' and the need of shoes to search for food, shelter and jobs. Our fantasy footwear becomes the mode of transport and the source for energy, both at once. The collection is called 'Shoes of Hunger' and each of them represents a separate step: 1. The raw dough step 2. The baked bread step 3. The reused disposable dish step.<br /><br />The shoes were a result of two workshops conducted online with children in the age group of 6-14 years. The primary question asked was - Why do we need shoes? The children responded with many fascinating answers including travel, for food, jobs and safety. We then did breakout rooms for each of these sub topics and came up with material around the house that we could use to design the shoe of our dreams. The children sourced disposable dishes from take out dinners, dough and other material. The second workshop incorporated these materials and produced a variety of prototypes from the children.

Paper and Paint

Found objects and shoes

Photo of myself standing in a raised bed of lavender

Beautiful and imaginative set of shoes designed to be made from recycled materials - glass, cardboard, plastic and fabric

Waste products like cardboard newspaper, colours and stones.<br /><br />My fantasy footwear includes this piggy bank in the shape of a shoe which will help me be on the right track in my life and save money as much as possible. I understand the value of money in life and want everyone to earn money in a right way and also save it to some extent.

Concrete stepping stones and paint

We decided to focus on community involvement as a priority for this project. To make this manageable, we contacted a local primary school, knowing that this would involve children and their families. We invited the children to donate a sock- any sock. We sent a lesson plan to the school for the teachers to use, and pointed out that socks are as individual as their wearers. We were hoping for a selection of socks, with each one able to be identified, and we were not disappointed. We received socks that were tall, and socks that were short. Tiny baby socks, and large adult socks. Brand new socks, and well-worn socks. Sports socks, and frilly socks. Brightly coloured socks, and calm, muted socks. Some socks came as a pair, and some had a missing partner. A real cross-section to represent our community. Following the collection, we looked at where to display them. We had considered laying them on the ground, but after research, chose to hang them on our Yew hedge. Traditionally, yew trees are linked with the land, people, and ancestors. They are often found in the main squares of villages where people gathered for open councils, which ruled village affairs. Yew branches touching the ground take root, and re-sprout, leading them to become the symbol of death, rebirth, and immortality. Nature’s recycling. A suitable symbol for COP26. Following the display for ‘Millipede’, we will use these socks to teach about growth, wearing the socks outside to collect seeds, and then walking in mud before placing in trays and watering them to see what grows. We will also use them in activities to grow cress, which can be eaten.

Marine litter found on an Italian beach<br /><br />Our fantasy footwear shop is located on a beautiful sandy beach in Northern Italy, sadly covered with marine litter - enough shoes to make a shoe store, enough bottles to make a beach bar. Imagine: the kite surfers leaping into the air as they turn, the sun glittering on a turquoise sea, while on the beach, we collect marine litter to create the amenities that the beach was so clearly missing – the place to be for an ice-cold Aperol spritz, and a row of shops selling random bits of plastic, fishing equipment and flip flops.

A banana and a hungry boy

Cardboard, stapler, masking tape, rubber band, cardboard, paint, my footprint and white paper

Pen and paper<br /><br />We, consciously or unconsciously, talk and discuss a lot about saving and conserving our environment, but very often, it remains only on the paper, and does not get implemented in reality.

Digital Words <br /><br />Recently I have felt more effected by the waste and thoughtlessness involved in my past regarding my own carbon footprint. I think it was the trail of plastic that I knew I had created since I was little, the fact that every plastic-covered meal I have had or every item of newly bought clothing is linked to me by invisible threads and that these connections STILL exist from every age of my life really shocked me. The plastic I used when I was a baby is probably still about on the Earth! It made me really think through these steps and helped me think positively about how I can make my movements lighter through actions such as charity shopping and buying or foraging foods that are not completely covered head to toe in plastic. A move to the greener side of life!

Green paper

Disposable dishes<br /><br />Dimensions: the dimensions of your stomach<br /><br />Taking the context of 'Migration' and the need of shoes to search for food, shelter and jobs, our fantasy footwear becomes the mode of transport and the source for energy - both at once. The collection is called 'Shoes of Hunger' and each of them represents a separate step: 1. The raw dough step, 2. The baked bread step, 3. The reused disposable dish step. <br /><br />The shoes were a result of two workshops conducted online with children in the age group of 6-14 years. The primary question asked was - Why do we need shoes? The children responded with many fascinating answers including travel, for food, jobs and safety. We then did breakout rooms for each of these sub topics and came up with material around the house that we could use to design the shoe of our dreams. The children sourced disposable dishes from take out dinners, dough and other material. The second workshop incorporated these materials and produced a variety of prototypes from the children.

Old sandals, sparkles, stones, glue, plastic eyes and lace

Egg box, cardboard, paper

Old sock

Fresh air, the size of an invisible cloud.

Cardboard and elastic

Bamboo, cloth and nails<br /><br />"First I found a thick piece of bamboo at home then I cut it in two pieces. After that I found one piece of cloth which is reused because it was left from my mother's blouse piece. There is one small nail. It took me 2 hours to complete. <br /><br />Nature gives us everything to live a good life. The use of bamboo is important because it is natural. When we cut bamboo grass then it grows more. Bamboo is available in my village. In our culture bamboo is used at birth and at death. At birth the baby is rolled five times in a bamboo object (otherwise used to clean rice) which is locally called ‘soup’. This is done to make the baby cry. At death we carry the person on a bamboo structure to the cremation place. During monsoon bamboo supports the soil and helps us by preventing floods. We can say bamboo is happy or bam bam (local language) because of the way it sways in the wind, and how the many grasses grow together like a close community. I made this bamboo slipper because it is not harmful for us and the environment and it reflects how people live in my village. We live simple lives and make materials like natural hand made buckets and fans from whatever is available and growing in our surroundings. Like many materials we use here, the bamboo slipper can be recycled and/or reused."

Sandstone

Coloured paper and glue

Paper, flowers, old jeans, rubber, string, metal and old travel tickets

Luminous paper, ankle boot with low heel, wire, tracing paper, & electric bulb

Dr Martens Boots (Red)

Egg, flour, butter, chocolate and marzipan

On my painting you see the shoe of the future. It has a solar panel, a battery, a bulb and a clock. The shoe is made of rubber.<br /><br />My future shoe is going to make anything possible on earth. It will guide us in the night. The soles are have a special structure that provide grip for walking fearlessly. This shoe is going to help you to reach the goal it will give you light and make you shine. This shoe is not going to push you back it is going to push you forward. In the corners I also made drawings of suns that give energy to my shoes. The solar panel is for sustainability which is important now we are facing global warming and environmental destruction. On the shoe the clock is important because clock guides us in life about the right time to do something.

Bobbie the Cat's paws in brown paper with garden background

Video of leaves, manure, sandals, butane torch

Flat Bread<br /><br />Dimensions: the dimensions of your stomach<br /><br />Taking the context of 'Migration' and the need of shoes to search for food, shelter and jobs, our fantasy footwear becomes the mode of transport and the source for energy - both at once. The collection is called 'Shoes of Hunger' and each of them represents a separate step: 1. The raw dough step, 2. The baked bread step, 3. The reused disposable dish step.<br /><br />The shoes were a result of two workshops conducted online with children in the age group of 6-14 years. The primary question asked was - Why do we need shoes? The children responded with many fascinating answers including travel, for food, jobs and safety. We then did breakout rooms for each of these sub topics and came up with material around the house that we could use to design the shoe of our dreams. The children sourced disposable dishes from take out dinners, dough and other material. The second workshop incorporated these materials and produced a variety of prototypes from the children.

Shawn's creative madness

This is a mini game developed by the students using 'Scratch coding platform’<br /><br />The mini game has an earth with multiple objects including plastic waste, bottles and other things falling on it which results in the ozone layer changing colour. Check out the game at: https://scratch.mit.edu/projects/553641988<br /><br />Presented with the concept of the carbon footprint and given the task to come up with something, the two brothers aged 8 and 10 yrs, came up with an idea of making a game instead with what they have learned at Phoenix Robo Lab in terms of coding. A few brainstorming sessions, a bit of guidance from Phoenix Robo Lab and once off the training wheels, they came up with this game!

Chart, paint, glue, scissors, cardboard, real leaves, a fake ladybug, tape, chart paper and some lace

My shoes and petals and biodegradable confetti.<br /><br />I like walking everywhere! Any shoes that help me do this - I love!!

Boots, socks, paint

Pastels and paper

Photograph of feet<br /><br />This is a pivotal time for our Earth and for all species inhabiting this precious and beautiful planet. There can be no more denying the impact we are having and the catastrophic effect of climate change as a result of our HUMAN consumption. My inspiration came from a recognition that if every human being was able to slip on some Gratitude Slippers, and even make a concerted effort to walk barefoot in nature as often as possible, then the separation many feel from this crisis may just evaporate and there would be a huge awakening of humanity realising we must all come together and ACT as one to co-create a new future. The time is NOW.

Crayon on paper.

Paper, crayons, pens and pencils

Our words<br /><br />The idea behind the poem was to highlight the reality of the present time and talk about climate crisis. We address the impact of our shoes on the earth by also talking about those whose feet crush our hopes for a cleaner future underneath them. This poem is a conversation with our ailing Mother, who we wish we could hold on to for longer. We talk about our relationship with the earth and the climate and convey the problems that our coming generations might face because of our actions.

Clingfilm and self-adhesive vinyl.<br /><br />Cast from shoes of all sizes for an event at Manchester Museum called Rubbish Night at the Museum. The photographs have been recycled from the shoes in the display and are cast from a variety of shoes & boots.

Drawing paper, paints and marker pens

Cardboard, paper, paints, shoe lace<br /><br />I chose this creation to remind me of the fact that my father will always be there for me no matter how old I grow. In his arms I feel comfort protected and whole lot of love which only a father could provide in my deepest hours of sorrow. It is to remind us children that to fill in a father's step is not that easy , therefore this design is just as complicated as trying to understand a father's love for his child.

Waste products - old jeans cloth, cardboard, foam, stones, sparkles and fake feathers.<br /><br />The shoe is made by sewing jeans cloth with pieces of cardboard and foam inside to make it soft and comfortable to wear.

Poster colours and chart paper.\<br /><br />Afsa Kibria was moved by the rapid deforestation, land deals made by the government to private holdings for real estate developments, factories, ashrams, which have severely impacted the ever so dwindling wildlife population as well as the climate due to greater pollution. Hence she came up with this project to voice her concern through her poster colours!

Coloured paper beads and glue<br /><br />Since the colour pink symbolises youth and good health we would wish everyone who wears this shoes good health and secondly it is a colour associated with flowers, babies and little girls so anyone who wears these shoes will not only feel like a princess but will feel special.

Vintage silver boots worn by Jill Piercy in the 1970s currently displayed at Ceredigion Museum in Aberystwyth

Cardboard, glass, plastic, fabric and crayon on paper

A conga for humans hands, birds and ants!

Image conscious, fashion loving, consumer culture in a time of environmental crisis and disparity across the planet