Week 5 : Design Ideas

Nowdays, technology become the centre of us. We can’t run from technology,  we are depending on the technology. For example is MRT, Smartphone, Laptop, etc is something that we can’t avoid. So I think that become our culture. Technology becoming our culture now.

Previously, I talk about the problem that we always facing, but there’s still no solution yet. So here I am talking about ideas that suddenly pop out from my mind, and I hopely it can be come true, so there no more slip when rain!

The first design idea is that our shoes that we always wear, it has portable sole, so we can wear then unpin the sole. It depend what the situation in our environment. Maybe the best way if our sole can adapt easily, like a temporary sole that will change automaticaly. For example that we want to go outside, but it’s rain, so the sole will change automatically into anti-slip mode. Or if we want to go playing soccer, the grass will be slippery if we don’t wear the proper shoes right? Maybe it will automatically appear the spikes.

The next design idea is the shoes that have the rocket turbo on it. So there will no slip anymore! Because our shoe will boost to everywhere we want to go. It can be in the air, but also it can be in the ground. When it in the ground, the turbo rocket will get into the shoes so we can use it comfortably. There will no more slip and tired of walking again!

Week 4 : Case Study

In these day, shoes are the important objects that we use everyday. But what becomes the problem is when the quality of our shoes is not good enough, the example like not comfortable, have no more grip, it have the hard sole that will make our foot injure and etc. The things that made serious is when our shoes become slippery, especially when rain. The impact of the result could be fatal, the example could be broken arm, sprain, and when we pratfall it could make our coccyx (tailbone) broke and cause the blindness. The victims can be from different ages, from children to elder. The place that always happen to slip is the place that we always crossed. The bus stop, roads, stairs, etc.

Broken arm that might be the cause of slip injury

Bus Stop. Place that fall accident happen

At the bus stop, people usually in hurry to catch the bus, so they are running, eventhough it was rain. So I think it will be the serious problem when we dont wear the proper shoes, so it can be slipped. Especially for children and elderly. The children usually play around when waiting at the bus top, they running until not realize that it’s not safe cause the wet surface that cause from rain can make them fall. And for the eldery, some of them already don’t have power to balance their own body, so when they slipped, they maybe not possible to equalize their body to the proper position.

Flat shoes sole that can make us slip

We should not belittle this problem, because small problem can become a really big matter. So that’s why, we take this topic. I want to find the solution that make our shoes won’t slip when rain or not, and ofcourse, comfortable to use everyday. Maybe our solution will be make shoes that will have changeable soles, so everyday in every situation we can go outside safely. 

Week 3 : Bibliography

Books : 

Walker, Harriet. Cult  Shoes : Classic and Contemporary Designs. Merrel, 2012

Pratt, Lucy. Heavenly Soles : Extraordinary Twentieth-Century Shoes. V&A, 1996

Magazine:

The Shoes We Wore.2013. Accesed on January 2015. http://www.bostonmagazine.com/news/article/2013/04/30/boston-marathon-shoes-stories/

Newman, Cathy. The Joy of Shoes. 2006. Accesed on January 2015. http://ngm.nationalgeographic.com/2006/09/joy-of-shoes/newman-text

Website:

Ketchum, Daniel.  How to Make Shoes Non-Slip.2014. Accesed on January 2015. http://www.ehow.com/how_4922804_make-shoes-nonslip.html

Ferrante, Maria. The Gift of Grip: The Fix for  Slippery Shoe Soles. 2011 Accesed on January 2015. http://patch.com/pennsylvania/radnor/bp--the-gift-of-grip-the-fix-for-slippery-shoe-soles-065166f3


That are some source that I post on this blog. It all telling about shoes. What the kind of shoes, the kind of design of shoes. and how steps to prevent shoes from slippery. as known as DIY (do it yourself).