Every Spring the Ontario College of Art & Design puts on their annual Graduate Exhibition. In Environmental Design, all graduating students traditionally take on the design and construction of our department's exhibition space. In the Spring of 2009, I was a part of the core team of about 8 students who led the design work. For this particular year, a private donor generously donated several dozen large plywood boards reclaimed from a previous construction project. Using these as our main modules, along with recycled cloroplast sheets and a handful of aluminum studs, we managed to put together a great show on a very tight budget.

Aside from being a part of the physical design and construction, I was also in charge of the branding and graphic work for the show. Because our program focuses largely on adaptive reuse of structures, we started to play with this idea of RE, as in re-connect, re-generate, re-discover, etc. The result proved to be a simple and effective concept that tied all our projects together in a coherent way.