How does the way we receive information alter our experience of space in today’s library? How can we translate this into an activation of the public realm?
The project seeks to activate the public realm through connection, literally by connecting the subterranean Special Collections library with the stacks of Alderman. The intervention serves as a bridge between these two sources of information. Along this connective tissue the possibilities for the public’s interaction with knowledge and one another are limitless.
Spaces are carved out of chance encounters with the information that flows through this connective bridge. Accidents are encouraged. Information flows in complex paths and can be intercepted, rerouted, and discovered. This space seeks to represent and facilitate this process with the public who occupies it.
Christopher Kelly 