Design is Repair
Department of Design
On view at Hopkins Hall Gallery
Using repair-oriented techniques for fabrication and prototyping, Industrial Design students produced new products by undoing, disassembling, reconceptualizing, remaking, restoring, or reinventing objects that are in a state of disrepair. These broken or worn goods served as both raw material and creative starting point for exploring design and concepts related to a circular economy. The end-products of a focused week-long charrette take the form of newly “repaired” works along with documentation of the process(es) used to create them. The results will encourage viewers to consider processes of repair and how they might be incorporated into their own lives to give meaning to their relationship with objects.
Design is Repair is presented in partnership with Hybrid Arts Lab, a multi-venue learning lab that experiments with how art is imagined, made, viewed and understood within physical and digital spaces.
