FOOTDISTRICT has started a new project called FOOTNOTES. It is built around conversations with people who operate from peripheral positions but still help shape contemporary culture. The thinking behind it is simple. Behind every significant story, there are footnotes. The people, processes and perspectives that rarely sit at the center of the narrative, yet remain essential to understanding it fully.

At a moment when culture moves fast and the obvious tends to dominate, FOOTNOTES proposes something different. It suggests pausing at the margins. The series focuses on dialogue rather than straight exposition, treating the exchange of ideas as something worth preserving.

The conversations take place in FOOTDISTRICT’s own spaces. The stores in Madrid and Barcelona, along with Headquarters and SEGUNDO ESPACIO, serve as settings. It is a way of bringing back the kind of talk that used to happen in specialized shops, where the conversation went beyond products to include culture, references and context.

Frankie Pizá kicks things off. The first episode was recorded at FOOTDISTRICT Madrid and features Pizá, a figure connected to music culture who has built his work from a deliberately peripheral position. He approaches criticism as a way of creating context, focusing on what surrounds the more visible cultural phenomena. The dynamics underneath. The narratives that run alongside.

His conversation sets the tone for what FOOTNOTES aims to do: explore culture from the margins to better understand what is happening at the center. Check out the first episode below:

 

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