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