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It includes all aspects of a society or group: living habits, language, expression, social consensus, rules, technical content, education system, knowledge structure, and so on (Linton, 1945) . The consideration and investigation of culture is an important part that designers can’t avoid in the design process.  \nIn today’s industrial design, shoes are one of today's multicultural collections of consumer goods and have played a non-negligible role in design considerations. The necessity of shoes in people's lives has provided a lot of cultural symbols in the eyes of designers. Most shoe designers mix multiculturalism into the design of a pair of shoes; however, there is no unified and specialized research to separate the specific cultural background required for shoes into two important considerations: function and fashion. Shoe design is usually a balance in these two directions, and the trade-off between function and fashion has always been a problem that designers need to pay attention to. How to apply one specific culture to shoe design through function and fashion? This is the main discussion of this thesis. Based on these two parts (function and fashion), this thesis will discuss and summarize various cultural scenarios. Mainly two main directions are discussed in this thesis: Different sports are used as examples to discuss the influence of footwear design to reflect the important role of functionality in shoe design; the thesis discusses the appearance and inspiration of footwear products with the design thinking of fashion designers to show the graphic culture, social relationship culture, and visual culture.  \nAcknowledgments  \nI am very grateful to all who have supported me to finish my thesis. First, I would like to thank my family for supporting me completed my degree at Auburn University. Thanks to my chair Tin-Man Lau for helping me manage the structure of my thesis, schedule my process, and some detail requirements help of my entire paper. At the same time, I would like to thank Benjamin Bush and Rich Britnell for giving me professional resources, knowledge, encouragement, and confidence in completing the paper. I couldn't have finished my paper without the help. Special thanks to Beth Topping who helped me to perfect and improve the language and structure of my paper.  \nA big thank you to all the professors and members of the industrial design department of Auburn University. In the past few years of study and life, I feel very proud to be part of the Auburn Family. As a Chinese whose first language is not English, I have felt all the help in this land, thank you! Thank you to all the friends I met in Auburn-a very important treasure in my life.  \n谢谢， Gengfu Out.  \nTable of Contents  \nAbstract ...........................................................................................................................................II  \nTable of Contents .......................................................................................................................... III  \nList of Figures .............................................................................................................................. VII  \nList of Tables ............................................................................................................................XVIII  \nCHAPTER 1 Introduction.........","cbCaib4U3XQe9qf7","https://ap.wps.com/l/cbCaib4U3XQe9qf7","pdf",10926016,231,"English","# CHAPTER 1 Introduction\n## Problem Statement\n## Objective of Study\n## Assumption\n## Limits\n## Anticipated Outcomes\n# CHAPTER 2 Literature Review\n## Broad Definition and Understanding of Culture\n## About Footwear\n## Broad Definition and Understanding of Fashion","[{\"question\":\"Why is cultural investigation important in the design process?\",\"answer\":\"Culture is linked to many aspects of society such as living habits, language, and education, and designers cannot avoid considering it when making design decisions.\"},{\"question\":\"What problem does the thesis focus on regarding shoe design?\",\"answer\":\"It addresses how to apply one specific culture to footwear design by balancing two key directions: function and fashion.\"},{\"question\":\"How does the thesis use function and fashion in its research structure?\",\"answer\":\"Function is explored through examples of different sports to study footwear’s role in reflecting functionality, while fashion design thinking is used to examine product appearance and inspiration, covering graphic, social relationship, and visual culture.\"}]","An Approach of Applying One Specific Culture to Footwear Design Through Function and Fashion - Thesis | PDF",1791841829,81]