Society for Care and Maintenance

Society for Care and Maintenance | Jason Campbell

February 2nd - February 26th, 2026

Design Museum of Chicago
72 E Randolph St.
Chicago, IL 60601

The Society for Care and Maintenance (SCAM) approaches care as a practiced, embodied, and conflicted act. It unfolds in the margins of legitimacy, where proximity to brokenness shapes how care is performed. The work began as a daily ritual of collecting shattered tempered glass from city streets in the aftermath of damage. Rather than engaging these sites as moments of spectacle or crisis, the project tends to what remains: the fragments that must be stewarded.

Through acts of sorting, mapping, transferring, embedding, and restraint, SCAM reframes care as a form of labor that is both calming and controlling, visible yet unacknowledged. The materials are not repaired or redeemed; instead, they are held in relationship between care and discipline, the practice of stillness, and the circulation of responsibility and meaning between bodies, materials, and systems.

The closing event for SCAM will take place on Thursday, February 26 from 5-8pm. This event is free and open to the public.