Reharvest Repair community gathering
+ Call for artwork/ repair projects
We are excited to announce two big updates in our reharvest repair project and invite you to join us for a conversation and gathering.
Our big updates:
- We would like to share our reharvest-repair mapping tool with you and invite collaboration
- We are curating an exhibition in the Fall 2026 and will launch a Call for Artworks for anyone who would like to be involved
Come by on Wednesday, Nov. 19th at The Repair Atelier and learn more!
We invite local makers, re-makers, artists, designers, hackers, fixers, scavengers, repairers and everyone who transforms scraps, off-cuts and materials deemed “waste”, into art works, tools and objects (of provocation). Engaging the afterlife of objects, those marked by wear, rupture or neglect, and connecting to larger themes of social, cultural and environmental notions of transformation.
At our gathering you can
- Mapping Tool: Learn about and participate in Creative community mapping
- Repair project rapid “open mic”: Share your project and learn about what others are up to_ You can also share ideas and/or images to show: Send us images at reharvest-repair@risd.edu or bring your objects of creative transformation
- Build a community of resource transformation: Bring along other artists, hackers, repairers you know
- Share ideas and work: Send us images (HERE!) or bring objects of creative transformation
- Learn about the upcoming exhibition in Fall ‘26 and how to be involved
Please spread the word and we hope to see you there!
Our big updates:
- We would like to share our reharvest-repair mapping tool with you and invite collaboration
- We are curating an exhibition in the Fall 2026 and will launch a Call for Artworks for anyone who would like to be involved
Come by on Wednesday, Nov. 19th at The Repair Atelier and learn more!
We invite local makers, re-makers, artists, designers, hackers, fixers, scavengers, repairers and everyone who transforms scraps, off-cuts and materials deemed “waste”, into art works, tools and objects (of provocation). Engaging the afterlife of objects, those marked by wear, rupture or neglect, and connecting to larger themes of social, cultural and environmental notions of transformation.
At our gathering you can
- Mapping Tool: Learn about and participate in Creative community mapping
- Repair project rapid “open mic”: Share your project and learn about what others are up to_ You can also share ideas and/or images to show: Send us images at reharvest-repair@risd.edu or bring your objects of creative transformation
- Build a community of resource transformation: Bring along other artists, hackers, repairers you know
- Share ideas and work: Send us images (HERE!) or bring objects of creative transformation
- Learn about the upcoming exhibition in Fall ‘26 and how to be involved
Please spread the word and we hope to see you there!
about the project
By re-harvesting waste, or more precisely, by reclaiming residual materials, we can significantly reduce or even eliminate the need for freshly extracted resources in architecture and design. When we shift our architectural and design thinking towards alternative methods rather than relying on conventional construction materials, we open up opportunities to utilize different material waste streams. These residual materials, often deemed unnecessary, can be repurposed either in their original function or given a completely new use.
re-
harvesting
to build networks with the RI Industries and document the material discard flows that can be utilized
re-
pair
the reimagination and transformation of these resources with and along community partners, institutional partners, students, and communities at large through community engagement
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