Margaret Jennings: The Living Taking and Giving Back Library: A Participatory Experience

The Alternative Library offers participants the stimulus to re-appropriate, re-utilize and transform found materials. Essentially however it also requires the responsibility to give back, to replenish the shelves with other found materials that are selected to inspire with thought for others - for communal use.

The re-evaluated status of found materials/objects/stuff is set provocatively juxtaposed in a culturally revered library context, investigating our unconsidered, waste throw-out-buy-again mentality and relationship with consumerism and the environment.

Elements of re-appropriation and play, through a participatory approach, suggest alternatives for environmental responsibility.

Please note access times:
Goldsmiths card holders: 9 am-12 midnight daily
Visitors: 9 am-5 pm Mon-Fri, 11.30 am-5 pm Sat-Sun
(Visitors may be asked for ID: Proof of address)

Library exhibitions

Dates & times

Date	Time	Add to calendar
8 Jul 2014	9:00am - 5:00pm Goldsmiths card holders: 9 am-12 midnight	apple google outlook
9 Jul 2014	9:00am - 5:00pm Goldsmiths card holders: 9 am-12 midnight	apple google outlook
10 Jul 2014	9:00am - 5:00pm Goldsmiths card holders: 9 am-12 midnight	apple google outlook
11 Jul 2014	9:00am - 5:00pm Goldsmiths card holders: 9 am-12 midnight	apple google outlook
12 Jul 2014	11:30am - 5:00pm Goldsmiths card holders: 9 am-12 midnight	apple google outlook
13 Jul 2014	11:30am - 5:00pm Goldsmiths card holders: 9 am-12 midnight	apple google outlook
14 Jul 2014	9:00am - 5:00pm Goldsmiths card holders: 9 am-12 midnight	apple google outlook
15 Jul 2014	9:00am - 5:00pm Goldsmiths card holders: 9 am-12 midnight	apple google outlook
16 Jul 2014	9:00am - 5:00pm Goldsmiths card holders: 9 am-12 midnight	apple google outlook
17 Jul 2014	9:00am - 5:00pm Goldsmiths card holders: 9 am-12 midnight	apple google outlook
18 Jul 2014	9:00am - 5:00pm Goldsmiths card holders: 9 am-12 midnight	apple google outlook
19 Jul 2014	11:30am - 5:00pm Goldsmiths card holders: 9 am-12 midnight	apple google outlook
20 Jul 2014	11:30am - 5:00pm Goldsmiths card holders: 9 am-12 midnight	apple google outlook
21 Jul 2014	9:00am - 5:00pm Goldsmiths card holders: 9 am-12 midnight	apple google outlook
22 Jul 2014	9:00am - 5:00pm Goldsmiths card holders: 9 am-12 midnight	apple google outlook
23 Jul 2014	9:00am - 5:00pm Goldsmiths card holders: 9 am-12 midnight	apple google outlook
24 Jul 2014	9:00am - 5:00pm Goldsmiths card holders: 9 am-12 midnight	apple google outlook
25 Jul 2014	9:00am - 5:00pm Goldsmiths card holders: 9 am-12 midnight	apple google outlook

Accessibility

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