Often in design, it is the combination of Form and Material that create the function of the object. After a week long workshop and many expert consultations with Mike Friton, lead shoe designer at Nike, Troy created a shoe that changes its shape while being worn.

Mike Friton has spent a career designing with the biomechanics of feet in their relationship with shoes. Analyzing the changing of the foot in locomotion lead Mike to develop new ideas about how shoes should work to keep feet healthy not only on the near scale, but over a lifetime. This shoe was meant as an initial exploration to express many of the ideas discussed.

The use of the TPE material FilaFlex allowed for dynamic flexible geometries that aid the foot in its need for flexibility.