The Society for Care and Maintenance (SCAM) explores the acts of care and devotion we perform in the aftermath of destruction. The project began with a daily practice of collecting shattered tempered glass from sites of car theft around Oakland, California. Through this act, the focus shifts from the immediate spectacle of damage to the systems that produce conditions for harm to occur. The work serves as a tool for transfer and erasure, preserving and reimagining the value of an unassuming and forgotten remnant of trauma. The exhibition offers a unique perspective on urban detritus as a medium for architectural inquiry, challenging visitors to consider the invisible forces that influence urban design and social interaction. By doing so, SCAM provides a critical commentary on how architecture can reframe care, responsibility, and divisive narratives in cities. This exhibition presents the full range of SCAM materials—collected glass, photographs, documentation of the performance, and related artifacts—while offering a space for critical reflection on how architecture can respond to urban inequalities through acts of civic care.

Jason Campbell, working under the diminutive [ell], is an American artist and spatial designer. Recent inquiries have delved into reconstructions and imaginaries of the post-colonial home through memory, photograph, and perspectival drawing techniques, as well as ellSF: a five-year research initiative that prioritized art production's spatial and operational condition via a coopted commercial storefront space. Campbell has taught undergraduate and graduate advanced option studios at the University of California, Berkeley’s College of Environmental Design, where his studios prioritized the immaterial and narrative structure of decommissioned and derelict space and the tension between seemingly incompatible uses. He is an associate and lead designer with SmithGroup in the higher education discipline and is a 2024 Building Design+Construction 40 under 40 recipient. Campbell received a master’s of architecture from the University of California, Berkeley, and a bachelor’s of science in architecture from the University at Buffalo’s School of Architecture and Planning.