Infrastructural Manoeuvres
Infrastructural Manoeuvres is an ongoing project of the Rietveld and Sandberg library; its aim is to foreground the role and possibilities of a library technical infrastructure, opening it up to reflection and experimentation.
The project consists of a series of changes in the software and network systems of the library and a series of collective situations aimed at discussing these choices and their broader socio-technical context. Instead of being set up by technicians as a service to the library, the new infrastructure comes from the library and its network, allowing it to reflect the way it wants to work, the concerns it wants to share and the collaborations it seeks.
Shifting away from just offering an interface to users-students, who are normally limited to a superficial interaction, the intention is rather to expose the catalogue and its interface/s to experiments and collaborations.
This way, the current discussion on the shifting role of libraries and digital books, is informed by practice, in the form of a series of hands-on workshops, aimed at introducing students to the creative possibilities of the new system.
The library becomes a site to explore the specific features of an art-school-catalogue in terms of publishing and archival practices, while the orientation towards the free-software community aims at connecting our experiences with other libraries and library-projects.
past
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21.03.2021 Library Encounters of the Third Kind: BBBr̶u̶s̶s̶e̶l̶s̶ Edition
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15.03.2021 Monday Readings: Catalogs
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04.04.2019 Library Workshop at PUB e-Pub 2
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18.04.2018 A Tool / Book / Reference-guide / Shelf / Library FOR Convivial Tools / Books / Reference-guides / Shelves / Libraries
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12.02.2018 → 13.02.2018 Library Encounters of the Third Kind with SPLOTR