booq
Palermo, Italy
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Founded in 2014, booq is a non-profit association based in Palermo, Italy working on community development, education, arts & culture +3 more.
booq is a neighbourhood library ('bibliofficina di quartiere') and social library in the Kalsa district of Palermo, Italy. Housed in a former convent restored as a public asset, it offers reading and study space, a collection of literature, politics, education and society titles, accessible reading tools for people with reading difficulties, intercultural programmes for migrant young people, a shared tools library, and a public garden. Founded in 2014 and constituted as an associazione di promozione sociale (APS) in 2017, it is open to the whole community.
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booq Accessibile
Disability · Italy
Accessible reading resources, including books in Augmentative and Alternative Communication (AAC), audiobooks, high-readability books, and AAC symbol-based wayfinding and workshops.
Ideas Box
Refugees & Migration · Italy
Intercultural media library and cultural gathering place for migrant boys and girls.
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Community development · Italy
Tool-sharing 'library of things' promoting exchange over ownership of resources.
booq bike ground _blossom
Community development · Italy
Modular, reassemblable iron play platform co-created with neighbourhood children to foster urban play.
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Impresa sociale Con i Bambini, Unione Buddhista Italiana, Fondazione Sicilia, Dappertutto
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