views from the bike lane, interactions with street vendors, happenings in vacant lots, cat-like uses of interstitial space, seeking out community kitchens and commissaries, tracing the work of elders and organizers
maura chen is an artist, architectural designer, educator, and writer from unceded tovaangar (los angeles) with roots and/or homes in the east bay, san francisco, new york, and west philly. drafting curbside is their "ephemeral note-taking practice".
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