"Repair Rolodex" presents a series of exchanges with strangers met online. Each transaction
centers around the repair of a broken thing in return for a trade-in-kind payment. Through the
brief relationship between owner and designer, these interactions suggest an object is almost
never entirely obsolete despite its perceived obsolescence. At the core of these trades is a
grassroots protest of the landfill and a critique of our global capitalist commerce system.
The apparent desire for and nature of these trades demonstrates that stories make our objects
meaningful. Each interplay studies peoples’ mercurial understandings of value. Each repair
celebrates the scars that become evident when an object lives a long life. Each decision is rooted
in the belief that small (inter)actions cause large ripples.

Shown below is the physical manifestion (exhibition) of my graduate thesis work at RISD.
It highlights my year’s long research and making, all of which centered around the idea and process of repair.

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