Exhibition “Knowledge Cities – Libraries in Africa”




Making Of



This exhibition is the result of a student based project seminar during 2007/08 at Humboldt-University Berlin. Starting off from the seminar "Cities in Africa" dealing with latest developments in Urbanization and Globalization in Africa, the makers of this exhibition  decided to tear down the image of the "ideal city" and to draw a landscape of knowledge: libraries as urban access points to knowledge and development.

The makers of the exhibition are:
  • Robert Liebscher, Tobias Mörike & Brigitte Krause
  • Opening of the first Exhibition
  • Opening of the first Exhibition
  • Opening of the first Exhibition
  • Opening of the first Exhibition
  • Robert Liebscher, Tobias Mörike & Brigitte Krause
Brigitte Krause, student of Library and Information Science and African Studies, Robert Liebscher, student of Modern History and African Studies and Tobias Mörike, student of African and Middle Eastern Studies. Coming from different scientific backgrounds we joined together with a common interest in African issues.

We wanted to present an open and easily accessible exhibition about libraries in Africa including a wide set of examples from various regions and cities. Moreover we aimed to show information about library systems and the historical development of the pre-colonial, colonial and postcolonial times.

For the presentation of these huge topics we chose a special design. We decided to give the exhibition the character of a library and displayed the posters of the exhibition in empty bookshelves, showing the ambivalences of lacking access to information and the richness and creativity of information management on the African continent.

The textual contents of the posters can be seen here: (PDF GERMAN) | (PDF ENGLISCH).




Venues



April 2011

  

Basler Afrika Bibliographien. Namibia Resource Centre - Southern Africa Library 

 

Nov 2010

  

Conference KANT III, Institute für African Studies, Cologne

 
Jan 2010 – Jul 2010  

Zentrum Moderner Orient, Berlin (newly printed posters)

 
Summer 2009  

Lange Nacht der Wissenschaften, Berlin

 

Feb 2009  

The whole exhibition (shelves and posters) was given to AMOS BOOKS, a library for African students at Humboldt University, as a present. The exhibition can be seen there during their opening times.

 

Dec 2008 – Feb 2009


   Institute for Library and Information Science, Humboldt-University, Berlin

Okt 2008 – Dec 2008

  

Juristische Fakultät (Kommode), Humboldt-Universität, Berlin





Press about the Exhibition



>> Article in LoNam – The African Magazin (Jan/Dec 2011)

 

>> Article in LIBREAS(1/2009), here you can read a German article and see the posters with Impressum

>> Interview (Podcast) in German with the Library Journal LIBREAS




Sponsors & Contributors



Humboldt-University, Berlin

Zentrum Moderner Orient

Unikat Möbelmanufaktur

Andreas Vollmer

Angelika Tolxdorff

Martina Steinke



Layout Posters

Christoph Zelke



Maps

Benjamin Rütenik



Realisation Website

yrnuid: { your new identity }




Impressum | Imprint



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