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Anna Pivovarchuk

A library of the ‘future’: Can it make the world a better place?

Anne Beate Hovind, chairwoman of the Future Library Trust, stands in the The Silent Room of Norway's public library, the Deichman Bjorvika [Anna Pivovarchuk/Al Jazeera]

Oslo, Norway — Every May, literature lovers from all over the world walk 40 minutes through the hilly Nordmarka Forest outside of Norway’s capital Oslo and stop at a place where 1,000 Norwegian spruce, planted in 2014, are slowly growing. Here, the foresters make coffee on a fire and people gather around as a writer hands over a manuscript that will not be read until 2114.

This is the site of the Future Library, a century-long project conceived by Scottish artist Katie Paterson.

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