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A Cultural Compass
For the World Traveler
A Cultural Compass
For the World Traveler

Future Library: A Century Unfolds

Apr 16, 2020 – Sept 20, 2021
The Mound, Edinburgh EH2 2EL, United Kingdom

Think of Aurora’s 100 years of dreaming in The Sleeping Beauty. In 2014, Katie Paterson began creating her own sort of fairy tale in a forest. From 2014 to 2114, a writer per year will be asked to write a book. None of these 100 books will be read until 2114, when they will be published and bound together in a special anthology. While the manuscripts wait in trust at a Public Library in Oslo, engineers will be nuturing a forest that was planted in Norway to sustainably publish these dreams. —E.C.

Katie Paterson, “Future Library,” 2014-2114. Photo © Mind The Film. Image courtesy the artist and James Cohan, New York.