This interactive, participatory event is open to anyone in the SAIC Community. Join us individually, with friends, or in a class to engage in unconventional ways with the library's collections, architecture, and community!
Bibliodérive: 10 Years Later
Monday, October 13 - 18, 2025 • Sharp 5th & 6th Floors
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.What is Bibliodérive?.
Bibliodérive is the application of the Situationist International practice of the dérive or “drift” reapplied to the realm of research, libraries and archives.
The annual John M. Flaxman Library bibliodérive is a collection of generative, open-ended actions, or situations, taken to destabilize common research practices and disrupt the gathering of information to merely support extant ideas. It is a disruption in the traditional value assigned to libraries, archives, and collections—and to the very concept of research itself.
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What is a Situation?
A situation is an open-ended action that embodies the mission of the bibliodérive to destabilize common research practices and disrupt the gathering of information to merely support extant ideas. These have previously been in the forms of performances, events, gatherings, interactive activations, individual generative exercises, and more! Get inspired by past examples here.
Use the Prompt Deck
The annual, updated prompt deck for the Flaxman Library's Bibliodérive will be available throughout the week. Ask library staff for the deck to participate anytime the library is open!