(What is it.)
ORA is a reading space that’s open to the public. A collection of publications centered around the arts. The kind of library that values place, knowledge, and encounters. ORA is a body of knowledge with a program of activities designed to further dissemination and exchange.
(Why.)
It’s a way of getting little-known and scarcely distributed editions into circulation. A route to discovery for published material that’s rare, hard-to-find, or didn’t receive much promotion.
(Who for.)
For anyone who’s interested in the contemporary publishing process, particularly in relation to the arts, visual communication, and ideas. ORA makes resources available to students and professionals in the creative disciplines.
Vanishing point
ORA is a reading space that’s open to the public. A collection of publications centered around the arts. The kind of library that values place, knowledge, and encounters. ORA is a body of knowledge with a program of activities designed to further dissemination and exchange.
(Why.)
Let them come, let them arrive
It’s a way of getting little-known and scarcely distributed editions into circulation. A route to discovery for published material that’s rare, hard-to-find, or didn’t receive much promotion.
(Who for.)
The guest
For anyone who’s interested in the contemporary publishing process, particularly in relation to the arts, visual communication, and ideas. ORA makes resources available to students and professionals in the creative disciplines.
(The library.)
Words are like trees and phrases like fountains
ORA brings the visual arts, architecture, design, and photography into circulation, via books and magazines. The collection is vast but accessible, selected by experts with creative visions. It inspires thought, learning, and feeling. It’s a living lounge, nomadic in nature.
(Space.)
A landing strip
ORA brings reading as an everyday activity to cafes, cultural centres, and private studios that are open to the public for set periods. It sees the library as a gallery of published objects whose spatial appearance is a statement in itself. A stop-off designed as a disruption and an invitation, tucked away in a variety of meeting places.
(Imprints.)
Spirits in the material world
ORA celebrates the printed book as an artifact that’s unbeatable at its job. A tangible object that contains and disseminates ideas. A bond born out of a gesture or expression. Material reality brings anchoring and presence in the face of the frequent dissociation fostered by digital reality.
Words are like trees and phrases like fountains
ORA brings the visual arts, architecture, design, and photography into circulation, via books and magazines. The collection is vast but accessible, selected by experts with creative visions. It inspires thought, learning, and feeling. It’s a living lounge, nomadic in nature.
(Space.)
A landing strip
ORA brings reading as an everyday activity to cafes, cultural centres, and private studios that are open to the public for set periods. It sees the library as a gallery of published objects whose spatial appearance is a statement in itself. A stop-off designed as a disruption and an invitation, tucked away in a variety of meeting places.(Imprints.)