1. PUC-Rio, PPGDesign
Novo Hamburgo - Brasil
Key words: scholar shoes, shoes
worker unemployed, empowerment
The scholar shoes from Novo Hamburgo:
a social design model to sustainability
How to contact: desis.brasil@gmail.com

2. Context: students want shoes on the size of their feet;
schools want to avoid the absence of students for lack of shoes;
the government wants to buy seasonally suitable shoes; the
Industry would like attend this demand without compromising
the business; and unemployed shoes workers need to work.

3. experiment to fit for modularity
Project: Pilot-project, co-
participatory, able to design
and manufacture a regional
scholar shoes with: students
+ parents + school + social
workers + university + NGO +
Government + Industry +
unemployed from the
industrial exodus + wastes.
Considering DfE and Reverse
Logistics.

4. Design role: to gather and
facilitate the communication among
actors, to co-design integrating
skills, proposals and tasks, to
empower unemployed shoes
workers stimulating, providing and
Fábrica da Cidadania from Novo Hamburgo| Credits: Renata Arteiro maintaining a creative environment.