
The L!brary Initiative, a partnership of the Robin Hood Foundation and the New York City Department of Education, with support from the Mayor, corporate donors, and a team of architects, seeks to reverse these patterns of low literacy skills and underachievement by working with community school districts and public elementary schools to design, build, equip, and staff new elementary school libraries. Working with schools in high poverty neighborhoods that have low academic achievement, the partners are committed to fundamentally transforming school libraries into vital resources for the whole school community — students, teachers, and parents — that will impact and contribute to improved student performance.
Muchas veces los gobiernos se esfuerzan por abrir nuevos espacios a la ciudadanía sin reparar en la posibilidad de reiventar los equipamientos ya existentes. Puede ayudar el pensar a los edificios públicos como organismos vivos que lograr construir ciudadanía en la medida que logren recrear lazos comunitarios. Ese es nuestro sueño para el nuevo edificio del Centro Metropolitano de Diseño y somos bien conscientes de lo mucho que nos falta para lograrlo.