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New libraries in old tenement blocks

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2 votes, Feasibility 0% Originality 25% Humour 45%

The Problem:
Old tenement blocks

The Social Invention:
The solution:

Our society is thirsting for new practical and creative ideas that are clean, inexpensive and practical so why not transform one in twenty of the great British tenement blocks that are underused or victims of Anti Social behaviour into elaborate libraries which are fun to use and imaginative.

Could include computer facilities and lecture hall and recital rooms and hanging gardens Could be a trip out for all the family with progressive levels of intellectual, physical and spiritual levels (the stairs)

Open only during office hours these blocks would resemble the aedificium in the Name of the Rose and could have multi purpose commercial and community use. At all times however the knowledge should be carefully governed and administered with an online borrowing service and fully qualified staff for loans, enquiries and security. The aim being to allow thinking cognoscent people to have some thing positive to do on their doorstep. And what better places to have these libraries than the recent social and community flash points of the last twenty or thirty years. First one should be in the new Olympic Development area where there is plenty of funding.

With more access to education and knowledge then people will see these Le Courbusiers in a new light and much of the anti social malaise in our estates could be dissipated through effective cultivation of its positive results. Perhaps it could be done in stages with a floor at a time so that the change happens naturally and organically. if the libraries are linked to local history and structured along those lines then we can really engage the community in a profound way.

Finance: this would be by subscription and through Trusts which govern funds on behalf of famous residents who left inheritances or Trusts. i.e. John Evelyn Foundation, Andrew Carnegie Foundation. Aswell as relying on grave money we could ask people for voluntary donations of books, plants, cuttings etc. Money that was set aside for demolition could be used for partial demolitions to reduce overall heights and areas, money could be saved as buildings would not have to be rebuilt from scratch.

Subscriptions should also be focussed into surrounding land acquisition for gardens and plants and generating "a new atmosphere" that would attract media attention and there fore visitors. The library should ask for donations to keep its stock up to date and ask young people to help through volunteering and a free hand in some of the donations of books and equipments that are not related to the history or identity of the area. Musical and other events should be primarily involving the young people from the locacl area but also local music colleges and universities so that good practice can be available.

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The Author - Hamish Gallie (Hamish Gallie)

Born in Leicester in 1978, Hamish grew up near Evington in Leicester and then West Bridgford Nottingham. He currently works in the Youth and Community Sector for Connexions Prospects Woolwich. He is an active baritone and has recently sang Faust in the Cantata "Seid nuchtern und wachet" by Alfred Schittke (1983) conducted by his biographer Alexander Ivashkin. Hamish recently performed in the Goldsmith's College's Performance of Die Zauberflote under Nan Christie as Sarastro and the priest in black. See: www.goldopera.co.uk or www.prospects.co.uk

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