Both Monday and Tuesday

Read an article about the project and their experience at Next Library.

Expo

The people behind www.wearelibrarypeople.com invite you to participate in a hands-on workshop about biophilic interior design of libraries.

The aim with the workshop is knowledge-sharing and the intent is that you go home and look at your library with new eyes. It is all about HAPPY PLACES and about making sustainable choices for the climate as well as for the mental health.

You will be introduced to the concept of biophilic library design. The word biophilic (biophilia) means love of natural life.

Biophilic interior design is brought to life by embracing nature with the use of natural light, plants, and natural material forms. The use of graphics that imitate natural landscapes and bring “the outside in” further embraces this theme.

Biophilic design seeks to bring people closer to nature. It is proven that nature contributes to our mental health and physical wellbeing. On average, people spend more than 90% of their time in built environments. The lockdown during the Covid19 pandemic also pushed forward the biophilic interior design trend. People are now keener than ever to “connect” with nature.

By introducing biophilic design into libraries and other public buildings we can accommodate our innate need to affiliate with nature in the modern world.

5 outcomes of effective biophilic library design:

1. Natural elements in libraries make the visitors feel happy, calm and relaxed.
2. Simply adding plants and green environments to the library can increase well-being and creativity of visitors by almost 50%.
3. Optimized exposure to daylight can increase speed of learning by over 25%.
4. Working in a biophilic friendly library environment increases the performance of the staff by 10-25%.
5. Natural elements increase the emotional attachment between libraries, visitors, and staff with a sense of membership and ownership

Read more here: wearelibrarypeople.com/biophilic

Host

BCI (Lammhults Biblioteksdesign)