Monday, 7 October 2013

Manifesto: Exchange-as-Value

The Future of the Library is not fully defined.

The Library is evolving into what it does for people rather than what it has for people.

The Site holds passage for a transient blurred community appearing momentarily and then disappearing into the city.
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Exchange increases the range of possibilities, for it supports more than a single value.

Exchange is the capacity to confront, relate, and incorporate other structures, and people in an interface, and therefore as a process of constant revision.

Exchange and Combination can be added to issues of access and retrieval, as opposed to conservation, storage and collection. If value is not stored in the collection, then value is established in the exchanges between the institution, users and visitors.


Value does not reside in a fixed collection but rather is created and recreated in the form of exchange-as-value.

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