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reharvest repair exhibition



Location
Boghossian Gallery
Providence Public Library
Providence, RI, USA
Opening Reception
October 17, 2026, 12 - 3 pm
on International Repair Day

Exhibition runs from
October 17 – December 01, 2026


What if we engage the afterlife of materials and rethink the values and conditions that made something “waste” in the first place?


What if there was no such thing as waste?



 “Re-harvesting” challenges the traditional notion of waste as something useless or undesirable. It prompts us to see waste not as an end but as a beginning.

 The reharvest repair exhibitions work engages the afterlife of materials, especially those connected to the regions industrial, domestic, ecological, or community-based material streams. We are interested in projects that do not simply reuse waste, but rethink the values and conditions that made something “waste” in the first place.



ABOUT
reharvest repair invites artists, designers, makers, repairers, hackers, scavengers, and re-makers to submit work for a curated exhibition exploring acts of re-harvesting and repair as creative, social, and ecological practices. We live amid cycles of extraction, overproduction, and obsolescence. Yet within the cast-offs of industry, the remnants of consumption, and the objects marked by wear, rupture, or neglect, there remains an abundance of material and imaginative potential. reharvest repair asks how discarded objects, scraps, off-cuts, leftovers, and residual materials might be transformed into new works, tools, propositions, and objects that provoke new ways of thinking about waste, repair, and value.

reharvest repair resists the notion of repair as mere restoration to an original state. Instead, it advances repair as an act of reconfiguration and transformation, cultivating renewed relationships among people, materials, place, and value. Repair is understood here not only as fixing, but as remaking, re-pairing, revaluing, and reimagining.



CONTRIBUTORS

Abbie Gonzalez & Noëlle Gonzalez 

Ann T. Dinh 

Anna McNeary 

Anna Shapiro & Ethan Howard 

Anthony Zhang 

Armine Tahmassian 

Azulina Green 

Beth Williams Garrett 

Dara Benno 

David Karoff 

David Lee Black 

Elaine Alder 

Eliza Squibb & Issa Oumarou Yacouba 

Elizabeth Duffy 

Eric Fan 

Gabriel Feld

Guthrie Avrum 

Hanisha Thirth 

Hanji Xu 

Ian G. Cozzens 

Jason Xu 

Jeanette May 

Jenny Richie 

John W Rosenwinkel

Jon Theodore Ording 

Judith Inglese 

Jussara Lee  

Katie Gui 

Kris Badertscher 

Lara Tekindur 

Leslie Hirst 

Lily Zane 

Lu Heintz 

Maithili Rajput 

Mekala Kumar 

Noel Sanchez & B.L. Jordan 

Olivia Baldwin 

Padini Nirmal 

Paul Osimo 

Peter Fuller 

Reed McLaren

Rey Reyes & Charlston Britton 

Tory Reiff 

Vic Xu 

Yasmine Hassan
 


CURATION, TEAM


Head Curators
 Ayako Maruyama, Markus Berger

Invited Curator
 Hannah Liongoren

Associate Curator
Annatruus Bakker

Graphic Design
Clara Cayosa

Exhibition Assistants
Sydney Ross & Maithili Rajput




KEY DATES


Exhibition opening
October 17, 12-3 pm

November 21, 10 am - 3:30 pm_ Panel discussion on Repair and Reuse
November 23, 5 -6:30 pm_ Conversations on aesthetics with Prof. Yuriko Saito

Exhibition closing
December 01, 2026



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.

reharvest repair is a circular economy research project supported by the RISD Somerson Sustainability Innovation Fund and has two connected components:


re-harvesting
to build networks with the RI Industries and document the material discard flows that can be utilizedre-pair
the reimagination and transformation of these resources with and along community partners, institutional partners, students, and communities at large through community engagement


reharvest repair
a circular economy research project


Rhode Island School of Design
20 Washington Place
Providence 02906
USA