Silkscreen halftone of a Pepsi bottle repurposed as an incense burner

Open Call · Onomichi, Japan

Found a jugaad?Send us a photo.

Your photo could become a silkscreen print, exhibited in Japan.

Closes November 30, 2026

Vol.1 · Jan 2026 · Onomichi

Different streets.
Same idea.

India, China, Germany, the USA, South Africa. Silkscreened onto Indian cotton and hung in a small room overlooking the sea.

What is jugaad?

Not beautiful. Not perfect.
Just clever.

A broken thing repaired in a clever way. An object doing a job it was never made for. It doesn't have to look like art — it has to be resourceful. Here's what people sent us.

Repair
Reuse
Improvise
Repurpose

A Pepsi bottle used as an incense burner

01Pepsi bottle → incense burner · Bill Aitchison

Rigging a market awning from scaffolding

02Rigging the market awning

An umbrella lashed to a bike in the rain

03Umbrella lashed to a bike

04Umbrella as a carry strap

A fan wired to the rafters under a corrugated roof

05Fan wired to the rafters

A toothpaste box used to hold cables on a wall

06Toothpaste box → cable hook

A festival cart loaded with goods on the street

07Festival cart, fully loaded

A zip-strap hung down steep stairs as a handrail

Gripping the zip while descending the steep stairs

08A zip for a handrail down steep stairs — it won't snap pulled straight down

A spoon used as a spindle for a cable roll

09A spoon for the cable roll

10Power socket → phone rest

11A parked bike for a bed

A tarp patched over rubble in the street

12Tarp patched over rubble

13Two scooters, one tow

A motor rigged into a barred workshop window

14Motor rigged in a window

Marigold garlands strung up in the street

15Strung up with marigolds

How it works

Photo to print.

What happens after you hit submit.

01
Find
Find a jugaad where you live.
02
Shoot
Take a photo.
03
Send
Tell us where and why.
04
Print
Selected works are silkscreened onto Indian cotton.
05
Exhibit
Displayed at BHARAT, Onomichi.

Submit

Your photo.
Printed by silkscreen.

Selected photos are turned into silkscreen prints on Indian cotton and exhibited at BHARAT in Onomichi, Japan — then sent back to you.

Submissions close November 30, 2026

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Not sure if it counts? If you had to make do, it probably counts — an improvised fix using whatever's at hand, a broken thing repaired in a clever way, an object doing a job it was never meant to do.

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