Book Gathering
13 June
Edinburgh & The Lothians Event
Event Summary
An open invitation to come together through books, gestures and collective reflection
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📖 2024/25 ESALA Projects Residency / City’s Reading Room at the intersection of Architecture, Art and Design
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6-9pm
Date(s)
13 June
Location
ESALA PROJECTS OFFICE
20-22 Chambers St, Edinburgh EH1 1JZ
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Organiser
Paula Szturc
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An experimental, communal reading experience at BOOK—SPACE. A table, a group of strangers and wrapped book offerings — no titles, just a small recommendation and a key quote. Rooted in the spirit of temporary libraries and ritual exchanges, this gathering draws focus to the materiality of books, the gestures of giving, and the slow unfolding of shared curiosity.
The event invites discoveries across disciplines, creating opportunities to share personal journeys, conversations and new perspectives. It’s a space to slow down, share generously and invite new ways of thinking — while reflecting on architecture’s role as a framework for dialogue and exchange, resonating with this year’s Architecture Fringe theme of reciprocity.
BOOK—SPACE is a project designed to gather a community centred around architecture and design books and their reading within a common space. This temporal reading room at ESALA Projects space, adjacent to the architecture school, will host a range of events exploring the performativity of the book space and experimental, spatial reading practices.
The space is curated by Paula Szturc, Architecture by Design PhD student. Her research project with NGS focuses on Artists’ Books, exploring their material, spatial and sensorial aspects. Investigating the book as a critical object of knowledge, she examines relationships between form, space and architectures of reading.
