Cardboard City
Cardboard City is a space where families experiment, play, and create, using cardboard as a springboard for imagination. Visitors explore the creative possibilities of cardboard, adding to an ever-changing cityscape made of cardboard.
Visitors become engrossed in exploring new tools and techniques to build with cardboard.
Cardboard City immerses visitors in a world where anything they can imagine can be made with cardboard. With epic cardboard installations by artists Asaki Oda and Josh Short, this temporary exhibit transforms the Bay Area Discovery Museum’s art studios.
Two spaces designed for children of different ages invite open-ended play and creative discovery.
A lively makerspace offers tools and materials to think outside the box. Visitors work together to build tall clock towers, friendly robots, boats and rocket ships, and much more.
Younger children stack and knock down towers of cardboard boxes and create crawl-through forts and tunnels, with endless possibilities for imaginative play.
A large-scale factory-themed cardboard installation by artist Asaki Oda creates a focal point and sparks imagination for visitors to build their own cardboard creations.
An elaborate cardboard cityscape by artist Josh Short sets the tone for visitors to add their own cardboard creations, from duck and robots to swingsets and sailboats.
Visitors experiment and learn about tools and techniques to bring their cardboard visions to life.
PROJECT OVERVIEW
Project Type & Size
Temporary Exhibition
1500 square feet
Location
Bay Area Discovery Museum, Sausalito, CA
Project Role
Interpretive planning and experience development, project management of in-house and external design and production, liaison with museum stakeholders and artist partners
Collaborators
Bay Area Discovery Museum staff: concept and experience development prototyping, graphic design, exhibit production
Cardboard installations: Train factory by Asaki Oda, cardboard cityscape by Josh Short
Graphic production: Landmark Grafix
