SHOEDES - Footwear Design for the Circular Economy (MOOC) (SHOEDES-MOOC OPEN)

This unit is designed to provide learners with a comprehensive overview of the waste management strategies and best practices in the footwear sector.

Waste management is the collection, transport, processing, recycling or disposal, and monitoring of waste materials. The term usually relates to materials produced by human activity, and is generally undertaken to reduce their effect on health, the environment or aesthetics. Waste management is also carried out to recover resources from it. Waste management can involve solid, liquid, gaseous or radioactive substances, with different methods and fields of expertise for each.

This course will familiarize the students the sources of waste in manufacturing process of the different types of shoes, waste collection procedures and valorisation of wastes.

Throughout the course, learners will engage in a range of activities, including case studies and quizzes. Moreover, role playing exercises will be included in order to encourage students to think more critically about complex and controversial subjects of waste management in footwear industry and to see situations from a different perspective.