2014 REform Aarhus peoples lab

Aarhus School of ArchitectureREformDenmarkProject Team, ...

People’s LabShut up and hack

Logo of the project

Promoter(s).Aarhus City Library, Roskilde Libraries,Aarhus School of ArchitectureOpen Space Aarhus

Funder(s).Danish Agency for Culture

Aknowledgements.Mie Nørgaard, Louise Overgaard, Marc Robert Moore

Context.HOW & WHAT: Using design interventions to inspire new maker communities in Aarhus

WHY: Empowerment, strong local communities & democracy

POTENTIAL: Making the libraries into hubs for makers – extending the activities that go on in libraries

The project.We experiment with using various design interventions to bridge users from a specialized hobby community (hacking electronics) and everyday users of the public library in order to inspire new and unsuspected maker activities and communities.

The design process.In our case the local hacker lab, Open Space Aarhus, took seat and made a month long workshop at the city’s main library – literally living out and by example producing the vision of merging practice based, technical and academic based knowledge.

Turning Libraries

into community

centers

Governance and Policy Making

encouraged and invited activism

Makers in residence facilitating public engagement and place changing

Playfulness enabling bypassing cultural conventions

Engagement through making

Social Interactions and Relations

From Library to community centre?

What might a future library contain?

City and Environmental Planning

Move design skills beyond authorship of objects to become

facilitators of engagement

Skill Training and Design Education

Hacking as a short cut to innovation

New professionals beyond librarians

Job Creation

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peter.krogh@aarch.dk

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