“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.

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. Head curators Ayako Maruyama and Markus Berger are on the hunt for work that engages the afterlife of materials, especially those connected to the regions industrial, domestic, ecological, or community-based material streams. They are interested in projects that do not simply reuse waste, but rethink the values and conditions that made something “waste” in the first place.

Some examples:

• artworks

• tools

• prototypes

• repaired objects

• design objects

• speculative artifacts

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.

To be considered for the show, it is strongly advised that you first visit the reharvest repair project website and read all materials. Next, submit your artwork/s via their Google Form For more information, contact head curators Ayako and Markus at reharvest-repair@risd.edu