From emergency to opportunities
the architecture libraries talk about spaces, services, activities and the digital and sustainable transition during the pandemic
;@ Google Meet UniFI – 18 November 2021
(h 09:00 a.m.-13:30 p.m. Rome time, https://bit.ly/3AsBPPP)
The Study Day aims at sharing methods and solutions adopted by architecture libraries to face and overcome the challenges posed by the Covid-19 pandemic since its very first beginning. The lessons learned show how the new opportunities have shortened distances, reduced costs, guaranteed safety and inclusion, and favored unprecedented and innovative usage of library space, both inside and outside, giving a wider significance to the idea of sustainability.
In collaboration with SBA – Biblioteca di Architettura dell’Università di Firenze
Program
09:00 Welcome and introduction, Laura Armiero (CNBA President), Presentation of CNBA and its 17th Study Day
Chair Luisa Marquardt (Università Roma Tre)
Keynote
09:20 Antonia Arahova (Greek Ministry of Education and Religious Affairs, Athens – IFLA President-Elect 2021-2023 – IFLA WLIC 2022 Dublin) Rethinking library space design for onsite and offsite library services during the pandemic and beyond
Part 1: Redesigning library space during the pandemic (and beyond)
- 09:40 Marco Muscogiuri (Politecnico di Milano ‐ Alterstudio Partners – AIB Gruppo di studio sull’architettura delle biblioteche) Designing libraries for a changing world
- 10:00 Alessandro Bertoni (Università Ca’ Foscari, Venezia) Libraries as public space and not just as building: redefining the concept of flexibility
- 10:20 Mario Panizza (Università Roma Tre, Roma) The library: once again a space for study and research and a meeting place
- 10:40 Carla Marchesan (The Prince’s Foundation, London – ArcLib) All the things we learnt in the pandemic, stories from UK architecture libraries
11:00 [Your own remote] Coffee break
Part 2: Sustainability and innovative solutions and practices
- 11:20 Harri Sahavirta (Helsinki City Library – IFLA ENSULIB) Sustainable libraries and libraries for sustainability: innovative practices in challenged times
- 11:40 Sergio Pace (Politecnico di Torino, Referente del Rettore per i Servizi bibliotecari, archivistici e museali) The library as a permanent arena for cultural action and creation during the pandemic emergency
- 12:00 Michela Rota (Architetta, PhD) Libraries, design criteria for sustainability and occupants
- 12:20 Q&A Session – Final Remark
12:30-13:30 CNBA Annual General Meeting
Free admittance, prior online registration via Eventbrite by Nov. 15, 2021: https://bit.ly/3AsBPPP
A certificate of attendance will be issued upon request
The proceedings will be published in «I Quaderni del CNBA» Series (ISSN 1723-140X)