the

SOCIETY for

CARE

AND

MAINTENANCE

January 25th | Open
Sundays, 12pm - 5pm | Viewing : Glass assembly
February 26th, 6-8pm | Closing Event : Sweeping

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

The Society for Care and Maintenance approaches care as a practiced, embodied, and conflicted act. The work began as a daily ritual of collecting shattered tempered glass from city streets after damage. Rather than treating these sites as spectacle or crisis, the project tends to what remains: 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; they are held in suspension, positioned in ways that register touch, pressure, and time. Over the duration of the exhibition, thousands of glass fragments are laid by hand in an ordered, reflective field that is continuously maintained and ultimately swept away at the closing, framing care as a condition shaped by time, attention, and restraint.

The exhibition is supported by the Graham Foundation for Advanced Studies in the Fine Arts

works by Jason Campbell

The Society for Care and Maintenance approaches care as a practiced, embodied, and conflicted act. The work began as a daily ritual of collecting shattered tempered glass from city streets after damage. Rather than treating these sites as spectacle or crisis, the project tends to what remains: 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; they are held in suspension, positioned in ways that register touch, pressure, and time. Over the duration of the exhibition, thousands of glass fragments are laid by hand in an ordered, reflective field that is continuously maintained and ultimately swept away at the closing, framing care as a condition shaped by time, attention, and restraint.

The exhibition is supported by the Graham Foundation for Advanced Studies in the Fine Arts

January 25th | Open
Sundays, 12pm - 5pm | Viewing : Glass assembly
February 26th, 6-8pm | Closing Event : Sweeping

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

the LINEN CLOSET

A contribution to SHIFT: Architecture in Times of Radical Change, the sixth edition of the Chicago Architecture Biennial.

September 19th, 2025 - February 28th, 2026

A contribution to SHIFT: Architecture in Times of Radical Change, the sixth edition of the Chicago Architecture Biennial.

September 19th, 2025 - February 28th, 2026

ell is an art and design practice led by Jason Campbell, whose work moves between architecture, archival process, photography, installation, and sculpture.

He tends to spaces and materials marked by incongruent narratives while exploring themes of care, memory, and reappraisal.

Campbell has exhibited in San Francisco, Los Angeles, Cincinnati, and Chicago with work currently on display at the Chicago Cultural Center -- a contribution to the 2025 Chicago Architecture Biennial. He is a 2025 Graham Foundation grant awardee and a 2024 Building Design + Construction 40 under 40 honoree. He has taught undergraduate and graduate advanced option studios at UC Berkeley College of Environmental Design, where his studios prioritized the immaterial and narrative structure of decommissioned and derelict objects, spaces, and the productive tension between seemingly incompatible ideas.

Ongoing inquiries delve into:

the collection and performance for acts of care, self-conditioning, and the space of introspection - an ongoing project that is currently reimagining a 250lbs. shattered tempered car glass collection swept from the streets of Oakland, CA. - the Society for Care and Maintenance;

and HOME PRODUCTIONS: reconstructions of the post-colonial home through memory, photograph, archival processes, and perspectival drawing technique – including works acquired by the Smithsonian NMAAHC digital archive, and commissioned for the 2025 Chicago Architecture Biennial.

Seeking space to feel deeply...a resonance between the quiet, the rational and the unhinged.

Here, there is no singular interest or type. Obsessions surface unknowingly, yet this flow aims to arrange disparate parts that typically exist in tension - what we thought wouldn't fit, wasn't possible, wouldn't make sense, or what we weren't ready for.