Designed by Eugenia Morpurgo, the RIY Shoes’ upper and sole are easily separable, and it comes with several repair kits. Not only do they last longer, the repairs also give it a distinct look over time.
Morpurgo say’s “The activity of repairing is a form of re-appropriating control on our material world, allowing us to understand how things function and acting as a key tool for the consumer to control his post-consumption goods (waste).
Shoes are one of those products that, with the rise of consumerism and mass production, evolved drastically from a completely repairable object; and the active social-economical structure that existed around shoe repair is slowly disappearing. “
Shoes, both crafted and industrially manufactured, are almost always assembled through irreversible stitching and/or gluing. These shoes are designed with a reversible connection between the sole and the upper, allowing the repair process to be more transparent in relation to the material the individual component is made of.
This project brings back in the hand of the consumers tools and knowledge for repairing.
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