Innovation invariably requires risk-taking and ample out-of-the-box creativity. It’s about finding the magic in experimentation and inspiring designers to dream big and think differently. It’s about embracing “What if…” and rediscovering wonder.

After all, it is only by manifesting the previously unimaginable that true innovation takes place. Nike designers engage in this fantastic thinking daily. For The Nature of Motion, a Nike exhibition at Milano Design Week 2016, however, they applied it to the concept of natural motion. Starting with Flyknit uppers, they created a collection of aptly named Experiments in Natural Motion, inventions that rethink materials and take inspiration from places as diverse as cat whiskers and champagne packaging.

These crazy Nike Natural Motion Samples are all built with Nike Flyknit uppers that comes equipped with hair rollers, plungers, pine needles and plenty others.

Check out the creations below and let us know what you guys think in the comments section. For more details on the experiment of the Nike Natural Motion effort, click here.