{"id":703,"date":"2014-04-24T08:27:43","date_gmt":"2014-04-24T12:27:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.fitnyc.edu\/thelook\/?p=703"},"modified":"2014-08-24T20:13:26","modified_gmt":"2014-08-25T00:13:26","slug":"the-ideas-box-a-library-for-refugees","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.fitnyc.edu\/thelook\/2014\/04\/24\/the-ideas-box-a-library-for-refugees\/","title":{"rendered":"The Ideas Box &#8211; A Library for Refugees"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright\" style=\"color: #333333;font-style: normal;line-height: 24.375px\" src=\"http:\/\/www.starck.com\/data\/actualite\/actualite_fiche\/112\/xlarge_photo_bsf_news_3bb31.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" \/><\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Libraries without borders home page\" href=\"http:\/\/www.librarieswithoutborders.org\" target=\"_blank\">Libraries without Borders<\/a> asked French designer Philippe <a title=\"Philippe Starck official website\" href=\"http:\/\/www.starck.com\" target=\"_blank\">Starck<\/a> to create a pop-up library to serve\u00a0refugees from the Congo.\u00a0 What he and his team came up is a beautiful, functional set of information treasure chests called the<a href=\"http:\/\/www.ideas-box.org\/en\/\"> Ideas Box<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Each set is comprised of four boxes &#8211; Connect, Learn, Play and Create -which contain among other things: 15 tablets and 4 laptops (internet connected), 50 e-readers and 5000 ebooks, 250 hardcopy books, a cinema modale, 5 HD cameras, board games, videos, craft materials and more. Tents and tables are also included.<\/p>\n<p>Read more about it and check out the video!<\/p>\n<div>\n<ul>\n<li><a title=\"Library Lifeline by Rebecca Miller\" href=\"http:\/\/lj.libraryjournal.com\/2014\/04\/opinion\/editorial\/library-lifeline-the-ideas-box-from-libraries-without-borders-editorial\/\" target=\"_blank\">Miller, Rebecca T. \u201cLibrary Lifeline: The Ideas Box from Libraries Without Borders | Editorial.\u201d <i>Library Journal<\/i>. N. p., n.d. Web. 24 Apr. 2014.<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/online.wsj.com\/news\/articles\/SB10001424052702303725404579459770368396100\" target=\"_blank\">Maloney, Jennifer. \u201cThinking Inside the Ideas Box.\u201d <i>The Wall Street Journal<\/i> 24 Mar. 2014\u00a0<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<!--YouTube Error: bad URL entered-->\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Libraries without Borders asked French designer Philippe Starck to create a pop-up library to serve\u00a0refugees from the Congo.\u00a0 What he and his team came up is a beautiful, functional set of information treasure chests called the Ideas Box. Each set is comprised of four boxes [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":214,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[20033],"tags":[30777,30776,30778],"class_list":["post-703","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-art-design","tag-libraries-without-borders","tag-library-a-place","tag-philippe-starck"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2ECrj-bl","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.fitnyc.edu\/thelook\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/703","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.fitnyc.edu\/thelook\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.fitnyc.edu\/thelook\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.fitnyc.edu\/thelook\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/214"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.fitnyc.edu\/thelook\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=703"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.fitnyc.edu\/thelook\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/703\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.fitnyc.edu\/thelook\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=703"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.fitnyc.edu\/thelook\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=703"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.fitnyc.edu\/thelook\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=703"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}