NYCxDESIGN is guided by core values of community, creativity, inclusivity, diversity, and sustainable design for the greater good. Beyond our annual Festival, our year-round programming provides a platform for NYC’s diverse design talent, from students and emerging designers to seasoned professionals. Each program fosters connection, education, and inspiration, empowering the next generation to use design as a powerful tool for positive impact and addressing the world’s most pressing needs.
“…things get broken, and sometimes they get repaired, and in most cases, you realize that no matter what gets damaged, life rearranges itself to compensate for your loss, sometimes wonderfully.”
— A Little Life, Hanya Yanagihara
Opening Reception: May 16, 6 PM
On View: May 15–19
An exhibition of work by recent RISD alumni now living and working in New York City. Through furniture, objects, and textiles, recuperated and repaired materials serve as the foundation of our practice. We center repair and reclamation—acts of extension and continuation—as a fundamental ethos for creating new work in today’s materially congested world.
Practices such as kintsugi, objets trouvés, and visible mending paved the way for this approach in the history of art and design—whether celebrated as fine art within galleries and museums or historically overlooked as domestic craft.
Featured designers include:
Piera Bochner, Annie Chen, Daniel Choconta, Kayla Feng, Benjamin Garbus, Elbert Girón, Pablo Ejarque Gonzalez, Luke Henderson, Jyotindra Idris, Zoe Lee, Anuj Malla, Sarah Mann, Isabel Jane Marvel, Caely Melford, Dominic Rishe, Isabella Ruggiero, and Ella Son.
The event is hosted at 7 Lispenard, an architectural space that unifies design practice, exhibition, and gathering.
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