Indian and UK students hope to revive traditional footwear
11/05/2015
Engineering students from IITG developed ideas to reverse the decline in sales of the traditional Indian shoes, visiting Northampton Museum and Art Galleries’ footwear archives to gain an understanding of the town’s shoe-making heritage.
Chris Doyle, a product design student at the University of Northampton, has been advising the Indian students on a new design for the shoe. It is hoped the newly designed modjadi will appeal to manufacturers in India and help reverse the shoe’s decline in popularity.
Vicki Dean, principal lecturer at the University of Northampton’s School of The Arts, said: “It’s been a real meeting of minds. We are now discussing the potential for student internships and these sorts of projects are essential to enable our curriculum to be truly international.”
Film footage of the project will be screened at Northampton Museum and Art Galleries as part of the University’s Changemaker exhibition, which runs from 15 May to 14 June.
Image: The traditional Indian modjadi shoe.
Photo credit: Salim Zubair
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