Sneaker Deconstruction as Project-Based Learning

Pedagogy
Written By Alexandra Sherlock

It was my pleasure recently to run a Project-Based learning workshop at RMIT University with a class of year-10 students from Melbourne’s St. Columba’s College.

The workshop adapted the ‘This is not a shoe’ activity, developed through the research project ‘The Affordances of Affordance Theory for Sustainable Design Pedagogy’, to teach high school students about the environmental impacts of fashion and footwear production.

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Alexandra Sherlock

Alexandra is an academic in the School of Fashion & Textiles at RMIT University, Melbourne. Her research is situated in the field of material culture studies and focuses mainly on fashion, footwear, identity, embodiment and the theory of affordances. She was the postgraduate Researcher on the ‘If the Shoe Fits’ research project (2010-2013). In 2021 she relaunched the ‘If the Shoe Fits’ blog as the Footwear Research Network

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