I asked a few questions to Colin McMullan, also known as Emcee C.M., Master of None, about one of his many projects, Corner Libraries. Colin McMullan is currently based in New York City. His work, many of which is jointly done with his Kindness and Imagination Development Society: «combines large-scale public, social and collaborative event-based projects with a more internal process of self-reflection through fiction, storytelling, and filmmaking.»

The Uni, a new project recently deployed in New York City, revisits the concepts of mobile and hyper-local libraries. The Uni can be anything – a reading room in a park, a few shelves on a boat, a temporary installation during a festival, a permanent venue under a bridge.

For their studio project at the California College of Arts last year, architecture students Duncan Young and Bret Walters created a new model for libraries in the information age. Released from the burden of storing actual physical books, large libraries could become smaller information spaces distributed throughout the urban space.