Kintsugi refers to a Japanese tradition of repairing broken ceramics with gold, silver, or platinum-a process of refining the "scars" instead of hiding them. As a philosophy it treats breakage as part of the object's history rather than as an error or a failure to be covered up or discarded. A broken ceramic piece becomes an opportunity for innovation and new insight within this tradition. Both the process and philosophy of kintsugi provides the conceptual backdrop for the exhibit Kintsugi++ currently on exhibit at Le Laboratoire in Cambridge, Massachusetts. The project was created by Certain Measures, an office for design and science, which integrates architecture, mathematics, computer science, and history in order to redefine the human experience of space. Using custom-built software and hardware and embracing the concept of collaboration, Certain Measures, which was cofounded by Andrew Witt and Tobias Nolte, aims to transform design thinking and traditional notions of space and material.
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