Todd Sieling was born, raised in and fled Ontario for Vancouver where he now lives. In the software industry for some 15 years, he’s spent the past 8 as an experience designer for digital technologies, working independently under Corvus Consulting and in a new partnership, Denim & Steel Interactive. More recently he launched Menuito, web software on a mission to rescue diners from bad experiences with restaurant websites on mobile devices. He’s also currently serving a second term on the board of Public Dreams, producers of the Illuminares and Parade of Lost Souls events.

His interests include long-term thinking, interactive game design, and the strange social phenomenon of shoes hung from powerlines. For over a decade he’s been photographing and thinking about hanging shoes. Some of his 600+ photographs and conversations documenting the hanging shoes were extensively featured in the 2010 Australian short film High Flung Soles: The Why of Shoes on Powerlines. His talk will share some favourite photos of hanging shoes from different cities, discuss popular theories and present his own take on the one eternal question the shoes pose: why.