within TETRAD Institute
Introduction to what and why the LIBRARIUM
The LIBRARIUM is a permanent open-duration Project with a set of highly-coupled and mutually supportive other cooperative projects within the Institute and among partners. It is intended to produce and to maintain, in perpetuity, a resource of foundational and applied knowledge and toolsets consisting of methodologies and protocols, for a variety of technologies that are deemed to be critical and valuable to a society that may find itself in a situation of need due to a variety of disruptive physical and social events.
In essence, the LIBRARIUM is the knowledge-technology equivalent of the Svalbard Seed Vault for botany and agriculture. Consisting of archived resources in science, technology, engineering, arts and mathematics (S.T.E.A.M.), it is organized around practical applications. It is intended to provide readily-accessible “stepping-off points and staging-levels for members of a future society to literally rebuild, resume and continue on, in manners that will be beneficial to a future renaissance period, even in the event of severe breakdowns in the social and economic order due to whatever reasons, of which aggravated and extreme climate change, the consequences of wars and conflicts, and other natural and/or human-induced events may be the most likely and the most devastating.
Associated closely with the Librarium Project is the Mirnova Project, also a component of the Institute's Coadunatio Program. Mirnova itself comprises several STEM and STEAM oriented education and proto-research activities of technical and social natures. Also there is the Seminar Project, for active onsite and online dissemination, publication, and presentations through lectures, seminars, symposia, and conferences.
Meanwhile, look at other pages of TETRAD Institute, and both the ASTRA and PRIMUS Centers, and also there are papers and presentations at http://tdyn.org/martindudziak