Designing an ‘UnLibrary’: Insights & Perspectives
Join us for this informal sharing session as three of the volunteers involved in Project UnLibrary share their insights and perspectives about the design thinking behind the installation designs.
This sharing session is held in conjunction with the ongoing exhibition of the UnLibrary installations at the Art, Design & Media Library and is jointly organised by NTU Library and the National Library Board.
About the speakers:
Ms Cheong Yian Ling graduated with a Bachelor of Arts (Honors) in Industrial Design from NUS in 2008 and was awarded the Lee Kuan Yew Gold Medal for being the top graduate. During the course of her studies, Yian Ling has received recognition in various competitions, including the Lite-On Award 2009, Core77 Greener Gadgets Design Competition 2008, OSIM-NUS ‘Imagine Healthy Living 2010-2015’ and DELL-NUS ‘Integrating IT into Future Retail Spaces’. Upon graduation, she joined DIC as a design researcher, actively looking for new tools to facilitate all creative processes and design workshops in the centre.
Mr Qiu Wenhao graduated with a Bachelor of Architecture from the University of Sydney in 2006 and worked with DP Architects upon graduation. Wenhao is currently with the National Parks Board promoting Skyrise Greenery in Singapore. His loyalty remains with architecture and believes that the creative processes of practicing architecture can be applied to a wide range of disciplines.
Mr Alvin Liau graduated with a Master of Architecture from NUS in 2007 and worked with Teh Joo Heng Architects for 2 years. Currently he is an architect associate with Surbana International Consultants.
Extracted from NTU ADM Library blog:
UnLibrary @ IFLA 2009 Pre-conference satellite (Turin, Italy)
Damien Wang, project manager the UnLibrary, presented a paper entitled “The UnLibrary: library within a library” at the IFLA 2009 pre-conference satellite meeting held in the city of Turin in Italy.
UnLibrary exhibition & talk @ NTU ADM Library
The UnLibrary installation has roved to the Arts, Design & Media Library at the Nanyang Technological University, and will be on display from 11 Aug to 18 Sep 2009.
UnLibrary @ international unconference 2009 (Aarhus, Denmark)
Gene spoke about the UnLibrary at the recent unconference in Aarhus, Denmark.
Quote Tree leaves from Geylang East Public Library
This is a sample of inputs received from patrons of Geylang East Public Library, between 19th May to 5th June 2009:
In all, we received 161 ‘leaves’ from our readers during this period.
Apart from the usual quotations, wise cracks, words of wisdom, declarations of love, aspirations, we noticed an increase in the number of well wishes and exhortatons amongst students preparing for their PSLE or GCE ‘O’ Level examinations.
UnLibrary @ Geylang East Public Library
The UnLibrary installation was transplanted to Geylang East Public Library this morning. Here are some photos which show what happened before the library gates opened at 10am….
The UnLibrary exhibition at Geylang East Public Library will end on 16 Jun 2009. Thereafter, it will travel to Jurong Regional Library.
