Medium Library
Medium Library is a collaborative project, created and constructed with Nikki Bennett, for the International Rescue Committee (IRC) in Salt Lake City, Utah.
We were inspired by the idea of a “Little Free Library”, small hand-built libraries in our neighborhoods that encourage people to “take a book, leave a book” and scaled it, dubbing it the “Medium Library”.
Medium Library encourages people to take, leave, or borrow and share. As a proposed permanent installment in a park in downtown Salt Lake City, this intervention identifies gaps in services available to a community, but optimistically enlists the same community to look out for each other.
Colorful, shelf-like pockets on each side vary in size to allow for a variety of items to fit in the library, while the space surrounding them creates space for flyers and community communication.
Process:
The final presentation of this work was presented in the coutryard of the Architecture building at the University of Utah. To see people approach it and interact with it supported our intention that it would provoke community engagement.
