Rebuilding Exchange Product Workshop
Connecting the Chicago community through reuse
Faculty Lead:
Marty Thaler
Class:
Product Design Workshop
Students:
Aamena Ansari
Tyler Besecker
Vaaibhav Bhardwaj
Xuanyu Chen
Todd Cooke
Rodrigo Dyer
Kaitlyn Forsythe
Ananya Garg
Sanya Karwani
Janine Zhong
Working with the Rebuilding Exchange, a socially-oriented nonprofit based in Chicago, students designed ten products for sale on the newly formed Rx online platform over a ten-week span. Although it was launched as a response to the city-wide shutdown of all “non-essential” businesses during the COVID-19 pandemic, the platform aims to increase the scale of Rx’s business and enlarge its community of like-minded people who value affordable and sustainable products. Thank you Julian Pastin and Ted Burdett for working with us on this great project!
All concepts are intended to be made and assembled in one of three ways:
through the purchase of pre-made, unassembled components
through participation in virtual workshops
through the direct patronage of Rx Made
