Innovative shoes designed and made using the natural properties of bacterial cellulose to weave strong and lightweight hybrid materials.

Science and technology researcher Jen Keane manipulates the growing of k. rhaeticus bacteria and uses it in the process of microbial weaving.

“This is Grown” shoes created with new digital and biological tools are designed and grown to shape with little or no wastage.

“The upper is grown in a single piece with no sewing and one continuous yarn held into place by the cellulose produced by the bacteria.”

This is Grown

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