Footwear Museum anniversary with exhibition on sustainability in the industry “Trend or future? Footwear and Sustainability”
Installed in the emblematic building of Torre da Oliva, the Footwear Museum completed, on the 5th of november, six years of activity, during which it received around 53 thousand visitors, even with the constraints caused by Covid-19 in 2020 and 2021. To mark the event, this cultural facility in the municipality inaugurated, on that day, the exhibition “Trend or future? Footwear and Sustainability”.
In partnership with the Centro Tecnológico do Calcado de Portugal (CTCP) and Apiccaps - Associação Portuguesa dos Industriais de Calçado, Componentes, Artigos Pele e Sucedâneos, this exhibition, which can be visited until June 25, 2023, presents projects, materials, innovative products and actions towards a more sustainable future for footwear production in Portugal.
The very assembly of this exhibition was made using the reuse of objects, as was highlighted in the inauguration session by the mayor, Jorge Vultos Sequeira, and by the museum director, Sara Paiva, who underlined the environmental aspect underlying this initiative, this aspect was also highlighted by representatives of Apiccaps and CTCP, respectively, Paulo Gonçalves and Flora Bastos.
In fact, in 2021, 22 billion shoes were produced worldwide, with the expected useful life of each pair being just one year. In this context, as highlighted by the organizers of the exhibition, “an ecological and environmental awareness is beginning to take hold among designers, industrialists and consumers”.
Addressing the fact that the Footwear Museum is marking its sixth anniversary, the Mayor left words of recognition to those who were at the origin of the idea, to those who implemented it and to those who have ensured the operation and development of this equipment, which it is part of a “great project” of the municipality, which translates into providing “a cultural and tourist offer, within the framework of Industrial Tourism, based on its industrial history”.
Source: Turismo Industrial S. João da Madeira
