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The article discusses methods for creating smart things, using the example of the use of innovative
technologies in the field of materials for clothing and footwear. The factors of form formation are substantiated
by the example of the preferences of an individual customer who forms its image through accessories and shoes.
The author considers the factors of shaping, based on the special functional features of shoes in connection with
ergonomic factors. The designer is able to foresee the factor of transformability in modern footwear, changes in
functional qualities, appearance, and design features of new footwear. As a result, on the basis of these
transformations, to get a new emotional image and a new form. The shape of the shoe becomes a factor for
transformations at the request of the customer. The article discusses the functional tasks of this shoe, plastic
characteristics, technical and design tasks. As research methods, the article proposes variants of experimental
models with possible stages of transformation, presents preliminary technical data, conducts a comparative
analysis with innovative footwear samples of famous world designers, and makes assumptions about the
development of this model in the future. An experimental method was used during the study.
A shoe shape was developed, which took into account the preferences of the age group of 12-16 years
old, relying on this category of consumers, we were able to go beyond the rational understanding of shoes as a
functional form and gave it the meaning of a fantastic image, which allowed us to consider the form in the
semantic and artistic context dictated by this age group of consumers. In addition, investing in this model the
concept of "smart shoes", we considered not only the ability of modification and transformation by rearranging
replaceable parts, the possibility of designing and reincarnating from one form to another, combining the
constituent elements of the shoe into one whole, but also the development of the creative potential of the
consumer, who at its own discretion can rebuild the structure and, in fact, as a designer itself, form a new model.
The article makes assumptions about its further development in various fields of activity. For example, medicine,
sports, art, etc. Considering the introduction of new materials, we relied on discoveries in the field of
nanotechnology and considered among the possible features of this model the change in color on the basis, the
reaction of materials to light, temperature, etc.
The project is aimed at creating such shoes that will be developed for a wide range of consumers thanks
to the wide range of possibilities contained in the design of the form and the features of modern materials.
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