Launched in the summer of 2012, we were asked to curate and lead a team of local creatives and sports community figures to develop, design and re-generate a local park in Hackney; Aske Gardens. The project was conceived to celebrate the launch of Nike’s newly launched Flyknit shoe, with the campaign centred around the shoe’s four key properties; sustainability, lightness, formfitting and performance. To inspire the re-design by local architects We Made That we produced four week-long youth ‘Creativity × Sports’ workshops, engaging the local community in the design and functionality of the space as well as designing all supporting print collateral. To launch the park, we commissioned art and design practice United Visual Artists to create a temporary community experience – an interactive installation of three sound and light responsive trampolines called Floating Point. The installation became the centre piece of a ten-day event programme organised by Seen Presents, called the Flyknit Festival.
Nike Flyknit Collective 'Lightness' video edited by Trim
Video by Giorgia Polizzi of UVA's Floating Point in action
‘To some extent we already knew about the great imagination and ambition that young people can have for the city, but the workshops have really emphasised that. There were great ideas, and an amazing level of enthusiasm from a diverse bunch of people.’
We Made That, Architects
