Hangzhou is located in the southeast of China. In September 2016, China hosted the 2016 G20 Summit in this city, by which Hangzhou was enabled to get a full attention from all around the world for the first time. By taking this chance, Hangzhou Public Library together with the local media City Express organized an exhibition of Ordinary Hangzhou with an emphasis put on moments in daily life of citizens of Hangzhou-what they eat, what they wear, where they live, how they commute, which, in a subtle way, carry the information of their identity.
The exhibits mainly comprised by 55 photos shot by ordinary people living in Hangzhou and a video of 15 minutes recording about 3 people’s daily life. Since the beginning of July 2016, the exhibition “Ordinary Hangzhou” kicked off in Public Library of Porto in Portugal. Totally 11 libraries around the world have joined the event. 4 public libraries, including Canberra Civic Library, Indianapolis Public Library, Bremen Public Library and the Boole Library of UCC separately held a grand opening ceremony to celebrate the event. What’s special about the exhibition is that the exhibition integrate the external resources and overcome difficulties like funding, personnel and design of the exhibition through extensive collaboration with global community and achieve mutual benefit through partnerships and cooperation.
