ABSTRACT
The exquisite examples of invisible repair were on display at the 2018-2019 exhibit Repair and Design Futures at the Rhode Island School of Design Museum. Although human beings grow and mature, we are more concerned with when we are past our prime, namely when we start our decline before reaching our ultimate end. In light of this problem, repair is making a comeback. In addition to the passage of right-to-repair legislations in increasing number of states in the United States, countries, there are also grass-roots movements, such as the issuance of the Repair Manifesto and the global proliferation of the repair café in 1,500 venues since its beginning in Amsterdam in 2009. Close-up of the back of a pale white platter with brown markings of wear and a browned bottom rim. Finally, this method of material repair is sometimes taken as a metaphorical expression of repairing a fractured psyche, and fragility turned into resilience in the field of psychology.
