Future Library Art Project in Oslo, Norway

By Bryan Voell

Future Library is a monumental art project by Scottish artist Katie Paterson. Utilizing paper made from trees planted in an Oslo, Norway forest, one writer a year for a hundred years will contribute a text. These writings will not be read or published until the year 2114, when at last they will be unveiled in a “specially designed room” in Oslo’s New Deichmanske Library. As their website states:

Future Library  is a living, breathing, organic artwork, unfolding over one hundred...