What is a library when 'everywhere is here'? UPDATE- This thesis won the National Corobrik Architectural Thesis Award 2010. I have made the entire Thesis Document available for download here: http://www.activeingredient.org/pdf/Everywhere%20is%20Here%20-%202009.pdf -UPDATE This architectural animation explores the question of the role of the public library when digital information is everywhere and is everything. What happens to the spaces of books? and how should traditional spaces of information change for a digital world? Even better... in the developing world, how could the library nurture an information society, when people don't have access at home? Could the future of the library be an urban information bar? or a theatre of knowledge? and what does that really mean anyway? This animation is just an introduction to my architectural masters thesis called EVERYWHERE IS HERE. There some preliminary stuff at www.everywhereishere2009.blogspot.com Personal Website: www.activeingredient.org All comments and thoughts welcome!

Comments

1. we love libraries...<3
2. Some seriously good comments here!  - I may reference some of these in a next publication / update to the conversation started in 2009. 
3. Thanks for making the Thesis available for download.
4. Great video, I'm doing thesis about library and I find this very useful! Thank you.
5. And how easy it is to change digital information. How easy it is. Too easy.
6. querover los videos
7. Can i get the Area Statement of this Thesis.
8. Mava 314 burada da karşılaştık =p
9. thanks a lot lol, this helping me so much..
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12. ToxicOdiousOne, your name says it all. You are a blight upon enlightenment. Schools never produce a profit so we should probably close them all too. And how about all those sick and old people, what a liability to the community, right?
13. The music is a total byte on a Lisa Hannigan song... just saying.
14. @ToxicOdiousOne "a liability".... my guess is you are not entirely aware of a developing world's needs.
15. There is no hope for any democracy without public libraries. There will never be any hope for the poor of the world to become educated without libraries.
16. Libraries are more heavily used and more desperately needed today than ever before just as they are, and books are going nowhere... they will stay with us at least for one or two more generations. Libraries are essential as a community gathering space, a place for meeting rooms, for tutoring, for books on CD for commuters, for DVDs, for information, for tax forms, for wi-fi access, magazines, storytimes, for internet access for the poor, the old, and those whose computers are broken, etc.
17. @TLB73737 except that the digital divide exists in who can access computers and internet and who cannot.
18. Great video. Great ideas. I give my thumbs up, but it's all just a dream. Design a reality. Review, improve, and finalize the design, and lets get to work.
19. @Rownery perhaps my sarcasm did was not apparent with mention of cave walls, lol.
20. @Rownery Ok, calm down with the "dumb" stuff, I am asking you to get your opinion, I currently live in Chicago, IL and there is standoff here between some mothers and the school district, the school has no library and they have asking for one for years yet the city says it does not have the funds. I understand children need books but is there viable compromise between cost and efficiency so that all involved with education and those inherit responsibilities can be made happy.