OurOwnsKIN is currently working on various projects, and has previously collaborated on a number of ventures that have led to the formation of the company.
Ourownskin project

OurOwnsKIN Project

OurOwnsKIN – The project The story – OurOwnsKIN is a project which explores human foot skin to rethink how we design for future manufactured 3D printed and grown shoes. Historically footwe...
Reboot - Kings College London

Reboot – Kings College London

OurOwnsKIN are consulting on a research project with Kings College London which seeks to redesign footwear for people diagnosed with Epidermolysis Bullosa - a rare skin condition affecting around 5,00...

Reconstructing Ourselves

Reconstructing Ourselves How does our clothing change as our body transitions through complex surgery? What informs women’s choices both during and following treatment for breast cancer? Second Skin...

sKINship

Skinship is a collaborative network exploring the subject of the human body as a meeting place between medical and design fields....
Flax shoe design by Liz ciokajlo

Natural Selection 

Natural Selection The Objectification of the Shoe The project started with the examination of how 3D printing could alter footwear architecture and identify new design constructions. Observations wer...

Crafting Anatomies

Crafting Anatomies was an exhibition that placed the human body at the centre of a multidisciplinary dialogue, exploring how it has been interpreted, crafted and reimagined in historic, contemporary a...
BioCouture 'Grown Shoe'

BioCouture ‘Grown Shoe’

Part of what we do is contact designers, artist, scientist and engineers doing interesting work for collaborations. Near the end of working on the Natural Selection work, it became evident synthetic b...
Rhian Solomon | Our Own Skin

Bodycloth – Wellcome Trust

Bodycloth – Wellcome Trust A film commissioned by The Wellcome Trust investigating the similarities in materials and craft practice between the disciplines of reconstructive plastic surgery and ...
Project related films...