{"id":17285,"date":"2014-01-30T09:01:56","date_gmt":"2014-01-30T13:01:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/devwp.davison.com\/blog\/?p=17285"},"modified":"2025-02-26T09:09:15","modified_gmt":"2025-02-26T14:09:15","slug":"human-library-gives-new-meaning-to-judging-a-book-by-its-cover","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.davison.com\/blog\/human-library-gives-new-meaning-to-judging-a-book-by-its-cover\/","title":{"rendered":"Human Library Gives New Meaning to Judging a Book by its Cover"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Here at Davison, we\u2019re always interested in finding a Better Way to do\u2026 well\u2026 just about anything! In the past few weeks, our blogs have focused on creative packaging designs to environmentally-friendly packaging designs and everything in between. \u00a0So, when we read a recent\u00a0Design Taxi post about an innovative \u201cHuman Library\u201d project, you can bet that we were intrigued.<img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-17287 size-medium\" title=\"Human Library\" src=\"https:\/\/www.davison.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/Human-Library-300x243.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"243\" \/><\/p>\n<p>If you\u2019re not much of a reader, but love to learn, a human library may be just the thing for you.<\/p>\n<p>Nearly 15 years ago, a group of Danish activists had the idea to start a mobile library project to literally loan out people, instead of books. The idea behind their Human Library project was to promote dialogue and understanding among diverse audiences.<\/p>\n<p>According to the Human Library website, the \u201cbooks\u201d or people are available to \u201cloan out\u201d for about 30 minutes or so, and vary by age sex and cultural background. So, whichever \u201cbook\u201d you may choose, you are sure to learn something new!<\/p>\n<p>It turns out that those young activists in 2000 were on to something bigger than even they may\u00a0have realized. Human libraries now have spread across various countries worldwide.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-17290 aligncenter\" title=\"HumanLibrary2\" src=\"https:\/\/www.davison.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/HumanLibrary2-221x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"221\" height=\"300\" \/><\/p>\n<p>In fact, not too far from our Pittsburgh headquarters, the\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/news\/show.php?id=8082\">University of Rochester<\/a> in New York hosted their first human library last Saturday!<\/p>\n<p>While we don\u2019t know where the next Human Library may be, we do know that we love a good story and this innovative idea could have quite the shelf life!<\/p>\n<p>Learn more about the Human Library project\u00a0here.<\/p>\n<p><em>Copyright Davison 2014<\/em><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Sources:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>http:\/\/designtaxi.com\/news\/363268\/Human-Library-Loans-Out-Interesting-People-Who-Would-Tell-You-Stories\/<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Here at Davison, we\u2019re always interested in finding a Better Way to do\u2026 well\u2026 just about anything! In the past few weeks, our blogs have focused on creative packaging designs to environmentally-friendly packaging designs and everything in between. \u00a0So, when we read a recent\u00a0Design Taxi post about an innovative \u201cHuman Library\u201d project, you can bet &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[39],"tags":[1561,443,72,1562],"class_list":["post-17285","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-innovation-2","tag-human-library","tag-idea","tag-innovation","tag-innovative-idea"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.8 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Human Library Gives New Meaning to Judging a Book by its Cover - Davison<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Davison confidentially works with people to develop their new product ideas. 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