Intersections: Reading Room

Intersections: Reading Room is a free public research space at SD Projects’ studio in The Old Post Office. Open every Friday from 12–5pm, it invites visitors to read, reflect, meet, and exchange ideas in a calm and informal setting.

Part library and part meeting place, the Reading Room brings the pursuit of knowledge into public life. Its collection explores histories and ideas shaped by faith, migration, travel, science, and cultural exchange, while creating space for different perspectives and collective enquiry.

The library includes books and materials generously donated by the Al Tajir Trust, SOAS, the Arab British Centre, and Saqi Books. Each month, a guest curator contributes a new reading list that opens a different route through the collection. Writer Tharik Hussain explores Muslim Europe, travel, and identity; researcher Imad Ahmed considers faith, astronomy, and timekeeping; and author Cathy Haynes examines ideas of time, the sky, and the living world.

Rather than a static collection, the Reading Room is an evolving cultural resource shaped by its contributors, collaborators, and visitors. It is a space where knowledge is not simply presented, but encountered, discussed, and developed collectively.