Grunewald's Athenaeum Razna Begum

摘要

The project is set 250 years into the future, a time when books have become virtually obsolete. The digital age has deemed the paper book unnecessary and the art of paper-making is lost with it. An excavation has taken place at a site in the Grunewald forest, where the Berlin British School previously existed. A book was first discovered there by Wilhelm, a descendant of the famous folklorist Franz Xaver Schonwerth, a collector of fairy tales contemporary of the Grimm Brothers. Each of the excavated books was found sealed in a plastic bag, some of which had been severely damaged. As Wilhelm endeavours to salvage and preserve the remaining books, a monumental scheme develops to restore the printing and archiving of paper books in a library. It glorifies the lost art of paper-making and is a hub for lost books of the past and present.