This is Not a Shoe

Image courtesy of Phillip Toole, 2021

The Affordances of Affordance Theory for Sustainable Design Pedagogy

How can old shoes be used to effect a shift from a traditional ‘design-led’ to a circular ‘material-driven’ approach to design? In this article for the Footwear Research Network, I presented Research conducted at RMIT University that used shoes to explore the transferable knowledge and capabilities that can be developed through material reuse and upcycling in design education.