PROGRAM GOAL AND OUTCOMES​

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Program Goal

Lade`Cree Co. Shoe Design and Repair Program instructs the student in the skills necessary to design, repair, and modify shoes, including sizing, and polishing, in order to work for an established retailer or start a business of their own.

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Learning Objectives

Upon completion of this lesson, students will be able to:

• Apply the basic principles of design to a 3-dimensional object

• Critically consider the relationship between aesthetic design and function

• Follow a design process from planning through execution

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Curriculum Standards​

Follow precisely a complex multistep procedure when carrying out experiments, taking measurements, or performing technical tasks, attending to special cases or exceptions defined in the text.​

Propel conversations by posing and responding to questions that relate the current discussion to broader themes or larger ideas; actively incorporate others into the discussion; and clarify, verify, or challenge ideas and conclusions​

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Instructions

• Ask students to think about the outfits they are wearing and discuss them as a class:

  • Do clothes matter in our society?

  • What do people look for in good clothing?

  • How does this change by type of clothing?

  • How do designers balance the aesthetics of clothing with their necessary functionality? What happens if this balance is not handled correctly?

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Activity

• Explain to students that shoes are some of the trickiest and most important clothing items for designers to work with. Ask students to brainstorm the challenges and requirements of shoe design.

• Hand out one sneaker (not one pair of sneakers) to each student.

  • OPTIONAL: If you are unable to procure individual sneakers, you can easily modify this activity to only include a drawn or painted version of their sneaker design.

• Tell students that their job will be to redesign this sneaker. They can alter the color, shape, and overall design of this sneaker, but the final product must be substantially different from the original and should not rely on the original aesthetic design of the existing sneaker.

• Explain the following process to students. Remind them that since they are modifying an existing shoe, the final product does not have to be fully functional. Changing the shape or physical design of their sneaker may require stuffing the interior of the shoe, for example.