Abstract
AbstractThis communication presents a library service carried out at the Library of Fondo, Santa Coloma de Gramenet. Cuines del Món, a gastronomic BiblioLab, is part of the BiblioLab programme of the MLN at Barcelona province (Catalonia). Cuines del Món starts from an analysis of the surrounding area of the library, a highly intercultural one, and with some associated problems like a high poverty index. Cuines del Món is about gastronomy and cooking but, above all, is about community building, interculturality in view. The aim is to offer a space, a completely equipped kitchen, and related cultural activities, which provide a positive interaction working on common interests producing active and collaborative relationships between people and groups which normally would not establish contact, establishing mechanisms or resources to achieve a culturally diverse participation in its activities, by recognising diversity, promoting the knowledge and the visibility of cultural diversity, and implementing measures to ensure equity, egalitarian access to information and culture, rights, opportunities to people issued from diverse cultural and social origins and avoiding discrimination. All this with an active involvement of citizens.
Highlights
Cuines del Món is about gastronomy and cooking but, above all, is about community building, interculturality in view
The aim is to offer a space, a completely equipped kitchen, and related cultural activities, which provide a positive interaction working on common interests producing active and collaborative relationships between people and groups which normally would not establish contact, establishing mechanisms or resources to achieve a culturally diverse participation in its activities, by recognising diversity, promoting the knowledge and the visibility of cultural diversity, and implementing measures to ensure equity, egalitarian access to information and culture, rights, opportunities to people issued from diverse cultural and social origins and avoiding discrimination
The project will be executed on three different bases: “Cuines del Món” (World Cuisine) a thematic axis based on cooking and diversity; the actual kitchen space of the library as the main stage of action; and a stable programme (4 days a week, November to June) which includes the presence of 3 people from Urban Time
Summary
In accordance with Article 28 of Law 4/1993, of March 18, on the library system of Catalonia, the Department of Culture of the Generalitat de Catalunya has developed and updates the Map of the Public Reading of Catalonia (MLPC). This includes input from the Council of Libraries and the representative associations of the local administration of Catalonia. It covers the needs of public reading and the type of library service that corresponds to each municipality (Mapa de Lectura Pública de Catalunya, 2014). Gastronomy, being a nice metaphor of unity in diversity, was seen as an optimal starting point to achieve the objective of cultural cohesion in the area of influence of the library (Bardají; Chavarria, 2016)
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