Camilla Ibsen - Fighting stereotypes with The Human Library

The Human Library or « Menneskebiblioteket » is an international organization and movement created in Copenhagen in 2000 by Ronni Abergel and his brother Dany and colleagues Asma Mouna and Christoffer Erichsen. This concept is about offering people as books, a sort of human books. Books have titles that aim to represent a stigmatized or stereotyped group of people in the community. As Camilla Ibsen, the national events coordinator in Denmark for the Human Library told me, adults, students can chat, during private or public events, for the first time with people they would never have met in their daily lives.