The Amsterdam Metropolitan Area introduces gumshoe, a sneaker with soles made from chewing gum taken from the city’s streets. Designed in collaboration with Publicis one, Explicit Wear and Gum-Tec®, the sneaker is meant to raise awareness of Amsterdam’s gum litter problem in a creative and positive way.
Publicis one和Gum-Tec®开发了一种由口香糖制成的新型橡胶,当地的鞋类品牌Explicit Wear在其运动鞋产品中运用了这种材质,鞋底为阿姆斯特丹地图。阿姆斯特丹Metropolitan Area的Mustafa Tanriverdi解释说: “该项目可以通过增加额外的规则和限制来减少口香糖废弃物,但这并不是我们的唯一目标,通过这些运动鞋,让人们参与其中,而不仅仅只是提出解决方案;,这样我们的影响就更大了。”
Publicis one and Gum-Tec® developed a new type of rubber made of chewing gum, which local shoe brand Explicit Wear used in the design for the sneaker, finished with the map of Amsterdam on its sole.‘ adding extra rules and restrictions to reduce the chewing gum problem would be at odds with our mission,’ explains Mustafa Tanriverdi of Amsterdam Metropolitan Area, ‘with these sneakers we make people part of the problem, or rather of the solution; in this way we have much more impact.’
The streets of the Netherlands accumulate about 1.5 million kilos of chewing gum annually, costing the Dutch municipalities millions of euros to clean. With gumshoe, the Amsterdam Metropolitan Area aims to stimulate its citizens with a surprising innovation.