{"id":457,"date":"2008-05-08T23:28:14","date_gmt":"2008-05-08T14:28:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/librariansmatter.com\/blog\/2008\/05\/08\/make-ideas-real-at-the-library\/"},"modified":"2008-05-08T23:28:14","modified_gmt":"2008-05-08T14:28:14","slug":"make-ideas-real-at-the-library","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/librariansmatter.com\/blog\/2008\/05\/08\/make-ideas-real-at-the-library\/","title":{"rendered":"Make ideas real at the library"},"content":{"rendered":"

I’m in Sydney right now – see, here’s me and a House and a Bridge:<\/p>\n

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I was on the ferry back from the zoo when I took this photo of the Opera House at sunset:<\/p>\n

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I hopped off the ferry and walked straight into the library at Old Customs House<\/a>. My, oh my, oh my – what a fantastic idea I saw there.<\/p>\n

They have embedded under a glass floor in the main atrium a concept model of the City’s vision for Sydney. It is about three metres by six metres – huge! As I watched, people were walking above it and looking down, squatting over it and a lot of pointing and discussion was happening. There was even a cute little “Have your Say” booth for feedback nearby.<\/p>\n

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More photos in this set: Diorama under floor at Customs House Library , Sydney<\/a><\/p>\n


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I’m in Sydney right now – see, here’s me and a House and a Bridge: I was on the ferry back from the zoo when I took this photo of the Opera House at sunset: I hopped off the ferry and walked straight into the library at Old Customs House. My, oh my, oh my…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[88,99,366],"class_list":["post-457","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-customs-house","tag-diorama","tag-sydney"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p3BXdd-7n","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/librariansmatter.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/457","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/librariansmatter.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/librariansmatter.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/librariansmatter.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/librariansmatter.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=457"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/librariansmatter.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/457\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/librariansmatter.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=457"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/librariansmatter.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=457"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/librariansmatter.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=457"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}