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A Living Library is an indoor/outdoor culture-ecology-technology park and lifelong learning magnet that brings the local culture and ecology of a place to life as well as the humanities, sciences, and social sciences. This is accomplished through integrating the built and ecological environments, plants and other living forms, the arts, programs of lectures, demonstrations, workshops, research institutes and state-of-the-art communications technologies. A goal of A Living Library is to link interactively these individual culture ecology parks into an national and international network that represents the diversity of different cultures and ecologies around the world and promotes sharing and understanding among the peoples of the earth. |
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As a living learning laboratory and central integrative community magnet, A Living Library brings together many sectors of the community including: students, teachers, artists, historians, futurists, business people, tourists, environmentalists, ecologists, horticulturists, families, senior citizens, foreign dignitaries, scientists, media technologists, visitors, and others—all in a celebration of creation, lifelong learning and environmental stewardship. |
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A Living Library is designed in a site and culturally sensitive way, whether located in a park, plaza, university campus, school, schoolyard, museum, botanical garden, shopping mall, new town development, or other public indoor / outdoor open space. Each highlights and integrates the local features and resources: human, ecological, historic, economic, aesthetic, and technological. As such, each Life Frame or Living Library is a unique reflection of its local cultural and ecological diversity. |
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Once A Living Library is fully functional, it serves the community as a cultural, aesthetic, educational and social magnet. And, it can become self financing. A Living Library will also increase national and international visibility and tourism for the community. Additionally, it will link the community with other institutions and cities around the world. |
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Bonnie Sherk is well-known in art, environmental, and
educational circles with a strong track record for creating innovative
public landscape projects integrated with programs like: Crossroads Community
(The Farm), an urban farm, art and environmental education center in San
Francisco: Portable Parks 1-III, temporary bucolic transformations of
inner-city freeway & street sites: A Garden Of Knowledge, a travelling
environmental installation with an "Electronic Tree of Knowledge", and
others. Having created the concept and plan for A Living Library, she
is now exploring ways and means to create A Living Library with communities
and institutions around the United States Ms. Sherk is an environmental architect, planner,
educator, and exhibitor of art in galleries and museums around the world.
Her work has been published widely and critically acclaimed in books,
magazines and journals, and she is also the author of many published articles.
She has been a faculty member and lecturer in universities throughout
the United States and Great Britain and with students in elementary and
secondary schools. |
A Living Library, Think Park & Life Frame
are Registered Trademarks |
