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Cardboardia is a state without territory, founded in 2007 and aimed at creating a community with a sustainable economy without territory and without natural resources. Cardboardia brings together creative people from around the world — artists, engineers, artists, producers, filmmakers, and other professions. All together they implement both the most incredible and quite realistic ideas. Cardboardia organizes public spaces and creative economy projects.

Cardboardia has no land, which means it has no natural resources, the main source of other countries' prosperity. The goal of Cardboardia 's experiment is to create a precedent where the economy of an international multinational community is built around a non-fossil natural resource: creative energy. Cardboardia looks for opportunities to digging this resource not in the natural environment, but in human nature itself.
All projects — workshops, carnivals, performances, parades — are interactive, inviting the audience to participate in all stages from preparation to realization.

Street performance laboratories, street and site-specific performances, exhibitions, parades and carnivals. Cardboardia celebrates its own national holidays and participates in festivals around the world. Cardboardia has realized several hundred different projects in Latvia, Slovakia, Finland, the Netherlands, Poland, Russia, Denmark, Great Britain, Korea, Germany, and Taiwan.

Cardboardia. State of Mind

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Cardboard Town. Why and for whom?

A Cardboard Town is a working model for building a society. It is a practical simulator for studying local communities, manifesting potential creative resources and searching for leaders.

Safe game environment

A Cardboard Town allows you to try new types of creative and business activity. You may not have such an opportunity in everyday life, but it is easy to let yourself to get used to a new role in a safe gaming environment. Here you can develop personal and team skills, become more creative and find commercial prospects.
Checking ideas

A Cardboard Town is an opportunity to test your creative ideas in live trading conditions. This is a practical intensive how to generate and develop projects in the field of creative economy.
Like-minded people

Do you want to find like-minded people? Participants are actively included in to the process. A Cardboard Town becomes an ideal place to build a team and to exchange creative energy.
It is a memory for life

This is a truly large-scale holiday, the most remarkable and memorable creative festival in your life!

Cardboard Town is perfect for:

searching and developing creative economy projects;
supporting small business and studying its capabilities;
initiating communication within the local community and making connections stronger;
doing research in the field of territorial development.

Cardboardia implements as a platform for creativity, work and experiments. The town is open to everyone though it lives according to its own laws and a certain schedule. So it is not always allowed, for example, to spend the night there.

What is a Cardboard City?

The life span of such town lasts from two to four weeks and then Cardboardia completely disappears. But everyone who was involved in the huge interactive project will remember priceless experience and unique memories.

Residents — «personages» of Cardboardia:

representatives of the creative industry and small business;
artists, actors, architects, producers;
students, pensioners, schoolchildren, parents with children interested in arts creative thinking.

Cardboardia tourists – family audience (parents with children), youth, schoolchildren, elderly people and all who enjoys visiting large-scale performances and having creative leisure.

Audience

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It is very important to indicate the goals and objectives of the specific Cardboardia materialisztion for all organizers and initiators of the project in advance. The preparation period lasts from 3 to 12 months and consists of several stages with the mandatory local creative community inclusion:

to form a Cardboardia team, to connect project curators;
to search for participants who are ready to implement their ideas and projects in a Cardboard Town;
to create an architectural plan and Cardboard Town events schedule;
to attract wider audience attention to the project, providing a tourist flow.

The more detailed study and opening Cardboardia embassy is possible in your town.

Preparation for the Cardboardia materialization:

9th materialization (Ulyanovsk, shopping center «Pushkarev Ring», November 1-7, 2011). 15,000 visitors. Part of the project «Ulyanovsk — CIS Capital of Culture 2011».

Kartonsk

11th experimental materialization (Perm, Esplanade, June 1-24, 2012). 400,000 visitors. Part of the festival «White Nights in Perm».

Kartonkamsk

10th materialization (Slovakia, Kosice, May 20-27, 2012). 10,000 visitors. Part of the project «Kosice 2013 — European Capital of Culture», Festival «Use the City».

Kartónové Mesto

Educational Center for Cardboard Innovation. (Moscow, Central Park of Culture, September 3-4, 2011). 15,000 visitors. Part of the city festival «Moscow Day».

Cardboardkovo

8th materialization (Perm, Center Plaza, June 1-13, 2011). 70,000 visitors.
Part of the festival «White Nights in Perm».

Cardboard-on-Kama

7th rematerialization (Moscow, design factory Flacon, January 3-16, 2011). 15,000 visitors.

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Such a city usually lives for two to four weeks and then it completely disappears, leaving behind a lot of benefits for the local community, invaluable experience and unique memories for everyone who saw and was involved.

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5th materialization (Moscow, Red October Factory, 8-14 June 2009).

CardboardTown Free!

6th Materialization (St. Petersburg, Bai-Bai Ballet, November 1-7, 2010) 5,000 visitors.

Saint-Cardboardburg

5.1 materialization (Helsinki, Kasarmitori, August 18-23, 2009), 10,000 visitors. Part of the Helsinki Festival.

Pahvistan

presentation party (Berlin, Brotfabrik, March 21, 2009).

PappeStadt

2nd materialization (Moscow, PROJECT_FABRIKA, January 2008).

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1st materialization (Moscow, Kolomenskoye, July 27, 2007). Part of the Moscow Picnic Festival «Afisha».

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The site

Usually the Cardboard Town territory is from 600 to several thousand square meters. The main platform should be closed or covered by tent to protect cardboard from rain and wind. As a rule we also are in charge of the adjacent open territory, where we organize holidays and hold competitions. Up to 20 thousand people can visit a Cardboard Town during the day.

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