This week's One-to-One guest is Jenna Didier, founder of the Materials & Applications research and exhibition space in Los Angeles. Didier started the driveway-sized venue in the front yard of her Silver Lake home in the early 2000s, looking for a space to establish community and exchange for like-minded architects, artists, designers, and makers in the city. M&A has since hosted installations by architects such as John Southern (Urban Operations), Jenny Wu and Dwayne Oyler (Oyler Wu Collaborative) and Benjamin Ball and Gaston Nogues (of Ball-Nogues Studio), among many others, and regularly holds events and gatherings.
More recently, Didier also founded Urban Applications: an initiative of M&A that works directly in and with local communities on environmental installations. We spoke about her work with robotics and fountains, and how creative communities are formed in sprawling metropolises.
Listen to Archinect Sessions One-to-One #3 with Jenna Didier:
↑ VIS-Á-VIS performance series at M&A, with installation "La Cage Aux Folles" by Warren Techentin Architecture
↑ "Light Frames" by Gail Peter Borden.
↑ "Maximillian's Schell" installation by Ball-Nogues.
![La Cage Aux Folles by Warren Techentin Architecture [WTARCH]. Photo by Nick Cope.](https://archinect.gumlet.io/uploads/ga/ga305wyag593qjoi.jpg?fit=crop&auto=compress%2Cformat&enlarge=true&w=80&h=80 "La Cage Aux Folles by Warren Techentin Architecture [WTARCH]. Photo by Nick Cope.")
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