Circular Economy and Footwear Design
Learn how to fully reconstruct shoes from waste and put it into practice
Bilbao
ESP
Summer Course
Language
Spanish
Start date
July 2026
Frequency
Part-time
Fruition
On campus
Duration
2 Weeks
Credits
5
Course Coordination
Bárbara León
Price
Combine your interest in fashion design and the circular economy with a practical and
collaborative course that addresses the entire creative process, from the idea to the
manufacturing of the product.
The Summer Course in Circular Economy and Sports Footwear Design starts from the problem of waste generated by the textile sector, and footwear in particular, to proposing a second life for this type of product.
This intensive summer training will allow you to analyse the negative impact of current consumption patterns and propose solutions focused on recovering this waste from the commitment to the circular economy.
During the three-week course, you will go through all the aspects of the process of creating trainers: from the methodology to be used, through the design and planning phase to the practical work.
Information to decide
A course to explore your creativity, combining your passion for fashion design with your commitment to the circular economy.
During the two-week course, you will be fully introduced to the practical development of footwear recovery projects. You will rebuild imaginative models in line with current trends from textile waste.
Following a collaborative methodology, together with other students you will develop each of the phases of actual recovery projects for this type of footwear.
By doing so, you will achieve unique developments in each project and you will learn to cultivate a generation process of ideas, design and manufacturing in which the contribution and creativity of each student plays a relevant role in improving the final result.
This three-week summer course is primarily aimed at people interested in the fields of textile design and product design. It is also intended for people with an interest in design processes linked to the circular economy and the transformation of waste into a resource.
The course in Circular Economy and Sports Footwear Design will enable you to learn about the workshop process involved in disassembling footwear parts (deconstruction) and subsequently assembling them (reconstruction).
Thanks to this three-week training you will understand the mechanisms for recovering textile waste to give it a second life, identify patterns of use, and points to take into account when using and collecting raw material.
You will study at the IED Bilbao headquarters, located in the iconic Papelera Building on the so-called Isla Creativa, where you will share your time with other students interested in the circular economy, fashion design and creativity, and you will come into contact with the sector from a sustainable and future perspective.
Syllabus
An introduction
Practical alternatives to the linear economy.
Representation techniques.
Some practical cases.
Upcycling and craftsmanship techniques
Discarded footwear and material selection.
Assessing the state of the raw material.
The first ideas.
Feasibility analysis.
Methodology and prototyping
Designing the recovery methodology.
Pattern development.
Pre-prototyping at scale.
Development of the comprehensive project
Conceptualisation.
Creating the functional prototype.
Functionality testing.
Feedback and adjustments.
Entrepreneurship
Business models in the circular economy.
The product value proposition.
Adaptation to the market and target audience.
Marketing strategies.
Project presentation and feedback
Inside the labs
+2
Multidisciplinary Workshop on Artistic Techniques
+3
Prototyping Workshop
+4
Textile Workshop
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