IMAGINATION AND PARTICIPATION is a book in which authors Rob Bruijnzeels and Joyce Sternheim explain their view on the future of public library architecture. The central question in the book is how public libraries can respond to social change and what effects this has on the architecture of new library buildings.

Public libraries are confronted with the massiveness and omnipresence of the Internet and social media, with increasing inequality and polarization and a decline in sense of community. Complex issues that require a next step in the development of the public library. 

The book consists of six parts, each providing food for thought in the process of arriving at a new architecture for public libraries. You can browse through it in your own way.