Nicola Cortese

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  4. Caliper Journal
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Design & Curation → Reading Space: The Common Room





Interview with designers and curators Nicola Cortese, Lauren Crockett and Stephanie Pahnis  about their work 'Reading Space: The Common Room' 2021–22 presented by ACCA as part of 'Who's Afraid of Public Space?'
Reading Space: The Common Room was a participatory public library that sat within the exhibition “Who’s Afraid of Public Space” over the summer of 2021. The project was a collaboration between Nicola Cortese, Stephanie Pahnis and Lauren Crockett of SENS.

The brief was to provide a place for visitors to ACCA to engage with material relating to the onsite and offsite projects as well as a welcoming space for book clubs, tutorials, meetings, yarn circles and a visitor lounge. The Reading Space offers this through a selection of publications that give context and access to the larger ideas in the exhibition, housed in an intimate space that is able to be reconfigured to suit the needs of those occupying it.

This project was made possible with support from Melbourne Design School at the University of Melbourne, Godfrey Hirst, Dowel Jones Arcade Pendants, Lauren Lea Haynes, Sustainable Living Fabrics, Melbourne Art Library and Caliper Journal.