ONEDAY Shoes Nachtigall, Troy; Tomico, Oscar; Wakkary, Ron
Proceedings of the Thirteenth International Conference on Tangible, Embedded, and Embodied Interaction,
03/2019
Conference Proceeding
Personalization of shoes is of increasing importance to designers, design researchers, and manufacturers as mass customization progresses towards ultra personalized product service systems. Many ...attempts have been made to design co-creation platforms that allow end users to personalize their own shoes. Those co-creation platforms primarily concentrate on color selection. This research takes a different approach and designs a toolkit for maker-oriented users to co-manufacture their own shoes. The toolkit was designed in different levels and deployed to makers via crowdsharing worldwide. Backers were surveyed before deployment and interviewed after two years to understand personalization over a larger amount of time with the research product. We find that users who have greater bespoke tools and materials in their toolkits are more likely to personalize their shoes while co-manufacturing. The research provides guidelines for researchers and designers creating toolkits, designing personalization product service systems/configurators and engaging in tangible bespoke processes.
Despite the attention recently paid to Jakob Böhme's life and works, the Görlitz theosopher's most famous disciple, Balthasar Walther (1558—c. 1630), remains something of a historical puzzle. ...Utilizing several recently rediscovered print and manuscript sources located by the author, the present article seeks to provide the first detailed biographical study of Walther, highlighting his significance to sixteenth and seventeenth century history in a myriad of contexts. Far from being merely a follower of Böhme, Walther emerges as significant in his own right as a physician, Paracelsian, Kabbalist, Weigelian, religious heretic, and distributor of magical manuscripts, whose personal networks extended across Europe and beyond. In addition to providing a biography, this article seeks to discover new avenues of enquiry in which information concerning Walther's life and thought might be uncovered and contextualized. This investigation simultaneously throws light upon Walther himself, as well as Jakob Böhme's often neglected intellectual and social Umwelt. It also points to new and entirely unexamined sources for Böhme's thought.
Taking off from an anecdote of Pliny the Elder, the author examines the reputation and representation of shoemakers and cobblers in late medieval and Renaissance Italy, through to the 18th century. ...Traces the ancient tradition which places the trade on the lowest rung of the social ladder, and shows how shoemakers appear as the negative term of comparison or the butt of jokes in Italian literature until modern times, and with almost comparable force in painting. (Quotes from original text)
The name Simon the Shoemaker is not one immediately familiar to specialists in ancient philosophy. This may well be due, in part, to the tendency of many scholars both past and present to deny his ...historical reality altogether. Here, Sellars seeks to contribute to the project of uncovering the philosophy of the historical Socrates, or how that philosophy was understood by some of his immediate followers, in particular the Cynics. He considers Simon as a Cynic role model and suggests how this Cynic appropriation of Simon might contribute to the debate surrounding what has come to be known as "the problem of Socrates."
This essay considers Thomas Dekker's The Shoemaker's Holiday as a history play rather than as a comedy, and so seeks to situate it among other works from the late-Elizabethan area that focus on the ...lives and actions of what can be broadly termed the "middling sort." I argue that the part of the play devoted to the rise of Simon Eyre to the office of Lord Mayor of London seeks to historicize the city and its citizens, a narrative effect that is reinforced through the physical dynamics of performing London history on the edges of London itself.
In 1993 excavation of a privy at 27/29 Endicott Street in Boston, Massachusetts, yielded fragments of fashionable and work shoes dating from the 1850s to the 1880s. During these years, two household ...types lived at the house: all females, some of whom may have been prostitutes, from the 1850s to 1867; and a doctor and his family from 1867 to the 1880s. Three shoe features provide clues about shoe construction and the wearers' class, gender, and occupation: (1) construction methods, apparent in the soles; (2) style, most evident in shoe uppers; and (3) size. Artifacts provide new evidence of a rand, a shoe part found in the sole. Excavations of a 19th-century Boston privy and cistern yielded a wide variety of artifacts including glass, ceramics, buttons, leather, textiles, and food remains; the research focused on the leather artifacts, identifiable mostly as shoe fragments, and the occupants of two houses associated with the privy. Over a 30-year period, two different types of households lived at 27/29 Endicott Street. Differences in the leather artifact patterns for each household, based on the construction, style, and sizing of the shoes, provide inferences about the class, gender, and occupation of the occupants. Other archaeological finds provide comparative material in relation to prostitution, female boarding houses, shoe styles, and shoe construction (Anderson 1968; Huddleson and Watanabe 1990; Seifert 1991, 1994; Costello et al. 1998). The Endicott Street site artifacts also contain new evidence of a type of rand used in place of a midsole.
Elizabethan city comedy articulates new, mercantile values and concerns in the face of changing economic structures. In addition to characters (often in disguise) from the mercantile class, these ...plays are densely populated by foreign characters or Englishmen disguised as foreigners. This essay argues that the staging of such foreignness, especially as it connects to the Dutch, adds national identity to the list of values inculcated by city comedy. Paradoxically, while Dekker's The Shoemaker's Holiday represents an Englishman who negotiates a cosmopolitan world of changing trade realities, that broader knowledge serves a nationalist agenda, ultimately exorcising foreignness and celebrating the English nation.
