Dokk1 Aarhus
The Vision• Space for co-operation
• Place for dialogue, knowledge, ideas and inspiration
• Open informal learning space
• A unique place for children and families
From information that can be found anywhere
To What can only be experienced at the library
Space for media Space as a media
On-line On site
Information Meaning
Facts Credibility
Meeting information Meeting people
Knowing Experimenting
Visitors Resource person
Neutrality Sensing
Seriousness Sense of humour
Arranged events Things that happen
Ivar Moltke, Create
Creating with users and partners
Why?
• develop our organisation, staff and services • make citizens familiar with Dokk1• facilitate informal learning and democratic
spaces • Strengthen the connections with the local
community and the political level• experiment and uncover new opportunities
People’s Lab
People’s LabHow can libraries work with
makerspaces?
People’s Lab
DIY = Do it yourselfDIT = Do it together
If it is broken – fix it!
If it is not broken – improve it!
SHARE knowledge, premises, tools!
CREATE together!
Be curious!
People’s Lab
• How can the library create spaces that encourages citizens to innovate?
• How can the library arrange meetings between knowledge domains?
• How can we create services with power and energy in the local community?
People’s Lab
TechLab
The love for technology
A maker who loves interacting with users
Access to equipment
Room for sharing
People’s Lab
Everyday life at TechLab People’s Lab
Everyday life Events
Creating together Experiencing together
Wastelab
Partners
Perspectives
Events
Debates
Swapping
Helping each other
Trying and rehearsing
Thinking
Handy work
Creating
Developing
Mixing artistic genres Performing in the public space
Rehearsing and writing together Exhibiting and lending out
www.multimediehuset.dk/mediaspace
2014…A Maker Library is…
• co-creation between users, partners and library• focusing on community building • mixing knowledge domains • gaining and creating knowledge together• creating settings for informal learning processes• prototyping in the physical library• a way of working and an attitude
Louise Overgaard, team leader and project manager, Aarhus Public Libraries, Denmark
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