Bibi Chan

 Target Audience: Grade 5 (10-11 years old)

Purpose:
1. To learn some role of footwear history, culture, and social life of humanity

2. To understand the purpose of wearing shoes
3. To understand sustainable and do our duty to protect the world

Introduction of the gallery:
Bata Shoe Museum has 5 floors with an interesting display, showing the timelines from history for more than 4,500 years, and across cultures of the shoes in the world. It collected over 13,000 shoes and footwear-related objects. Though the museum demonstrates the habits and the culture of people from around the world, it talks about the history of footwear and shoemaking through displaying physical evidence. 

What kind of shoes are you wearing?

Why did you wear these shoes today?

Do you wear these shoes everyday? Why?

Can someone guess when the old days what kind of materials will they form a shoes?

And why do they create shoes?

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Started from the 3000BC:
The timeline will state from the basement where it talks about the oldest history of shoes and different religions that contribute to shoes. 

The Ötzi Man

When: The earliest European footwear ever found belongs to the Ötzi Man who died in the Ötztaler Alps around 5,300 years ago. (description box in Bata shoes museum) This was discovered in 1991 where he was still wearing one of the shoes.

Materials: Made of half-tanned deerskin uppers covered with a finely tangled plant mesh, topped with grass. The sole is made of thin bearskin, an odd choice since it's not for good

longlasting.

Why: To protect the human foot from the natural environment.

Activity #1 “Material”

Use your imagination to design shoes by using natural and recycled materials in drawing. Imagine you are living in the old days by using natural resources. On the other hand, trying to use recycled materials to make an art.     Natural: Wood sticks, Leaves, Cotton     Recycled Materials: Newspapers, Magazines, Cardboard, Bottles, Jars, Strings.

Have you finished the design? Can you share it to us and talk about the process.

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What are the reasons to buy shoes?

Comfortable? Famous? Beautiful?

19th Century: Through the time being, as industrialisation advances. Inventing much more materials, colours that makes the complex of meaning, manufacture and in many cultures shoemaking became a specialised craft of footwear. Therefore, designers bring up new ideas to customise the customers’ attention into the market.

New colours During 19th century, this men slippers display a new colours of bright purple has invested that replaced many natural pigments. Activity #2 "Who is Undercover"

Setting up with two groups, picture guessing game. The picture would be the shoes we have shown. Player's identities are hidden from each other. The game starts where the players read their picture.

Remember to keep your secret shoes hidden from the others!!!

Each round every player needs to describe the shoes by using a word a phrase. Once the round of description is complete, players discuss and debate who is the allies and enemy.

The more round it goes, the more clues to discover their own identity, build allies and identify enemies.

Remember!!! DON'T EXPOSE YOUR SHOES TOO EARLY!!!

When the discussion ends, all remaining players will need to vote for one player they want to oust. (The players that were already ousted can't join the voting)

Until one of the team has oust.

Have fun~

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Future and Now:

Name me some types of shoes~ Air Forces. Ballet Shoe. Derby Shoe. High-heeled footwear. Slipper.

Sustainable

Do you know what is sustainable?     Able to maintained for certain time.

More and more style and type of shoes produce each year, almost over 20 billion pairs of shoes has produced each year. The global of creating shoes are become a fast fashion that people thrown their shoes as quick as they buy a new one. In industry hope that using sustainable in materials and production method to reduces the waste.

Interchangeable Parts Nike X Marc Newson Zvezdochka, 2005 | Collection of the Bata Shoe Museum Marc Newson's 2004 Zvezdochka is using four structure features from in and out, that design for different ways of use. There's parts that could replaced when the interlocking system eliminates needed to be change.

Can you think of one shoes that can carry in many styles?

Sporty. Formal. Casual.

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Museum Response

Do you like to visit the Bata Shoes Museum? Why? Name two things you have learn about this museum.

In these three shoes. Which are the better shoes? Why? (draw the shoes out)