Third party funded individual grant
Acronym: BiDiPeri
Start date : 01.12.2019
End date : 30.11.2022
Extension date: 30.06.2023
Website: https://bidiperi.fau.de
How can peripheral spaces be developed in such a way that they also offer a culturally attractive living environment for "digital natives"? How can libraries become engines of digital innovation in peripheral spaces? With these questions, the research project investigates the socially urgent question of how cultural and educational intervention can compensate for the structural backwardness of rural areas, which often leads to rural exodus, especially among the younger generations. Which offers of (post-) digital cultural education can create equivalence in peripheral areas and possibly promote regional strengths? These questions are addressed in relation to the library as a cultural space and institution of cultural education, which is predestined for digital cultural education through its traditional affinity for media, text and images, its constitutive orientation towards the common good and its often very good infrastructural integration.