Playing The Library

Inspired by David Byrne’s sound installation ‘Playing the Building (2005)’, which transformed a physical structure into a playable musical instrument, this project reframes the LCC Library collection as a performative site. The challenge was to move beyond traditional editorial design by devising a generative design system, a set of procedural rules that allows the ‘playing’ of existing archives to produce a new, unique publication. The project focuses on the tension between the fixed nature of the library’s archive and the fluid, generative outcomes produced by a custom designed method of intervention.