Cardboard City Residency, 2022
Santa Monica Place
Commissioned by Rediscover Center
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As part of a week-long artist residency at Cardboard City, a free pop-up art gallery and community workshop that advocates for the creative reuse of cardboard, an exploration of the mid-century breezeblock was conducted to celebrate one of the most iconic architectural features of Los Angeles.
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M/PAL Studio also designed an exploratory cardboard puzzle for participants to generate their own architecture-inspired patterns.
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