Session In playful learning in the library, the learner chooses what they will learn. This makes it challenging for non-formal educators to see and explain the learning that’s happening. In this talkshop, Ben Mardell of Harvard Project Zero, Maria Xanthoudaki of the National Museum of Science and Technology in Milan, and Amos Blanton talk with […]
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Session CREATING A PLAYFUL LIBRARY SPACE: Reimagining the children’s area in Helsinki Central Library Oodi In this workshop you will receive tools and new ideas on how to implement and bring playfulness into your library space. In the 90-minute session you will work with different models that can be easily modified to use in
Both Monday and Tuesday Expo What rule would you set for the future library? Would it regard the way we move, which sound we can make or how the library should smell? The library is a public space that holds many unwritten rules that guide our behavior and affect how we communicate with each other.
Ignite Talk The DC Public Library is engaging District residents in civic understanding and action in the nation’s capital – where we are surrounded by the forces of the federal government but we ourselves do not have federal representation. We lean into our core value “Stay Rooted”: standing up for DC, advocating for others, and
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Both Monday and Tuesday Expo What The Future Wants: An interactive exhibition to raise digital technology awareness among young people What the Future Wants, a new interactive exhibition by Tactical Tech, aims to put young people in the driving seat of their digital futures. How can young people create new conscious digital habits? How could
Session The built environment has a critical role to play in helping libraries contribute to the UN’s SDGs. Aligning a library’s building with strategies for climate action, community-building, and connection and human well-being: positions the library to contribute to community resilience; ensures the building is an effective tool in service of its mission; inspires positive
Both Monday and Tuesday Session WEEK17 – the national library week of sustainable change and development Experience the Danish libraries’ take on how we communicate and inspire hope and take action. As part of WEEK17’s presence at the Next Library, we will engage conference participants through a series of workshops and guided exercise. Here you
Session Today metadata in literature is created and governed by a small group of arbitrarily selected editors/librarians. But can we democratize the process of creating and governing metadata by utilizing a democratic crowd sourcing models with assistance from generative AI. Maybe even expand and enhance metadata with a structured vocabulary as part of the process?
Only Tuesday Expo Drop by the children’s library and meet some of the reading ambassadors from Dokk1 – children ages 9-14 who love to read. They come from all over Aarhus and meet at Dokk1, where they discuss and recommend books and plan activities at the library. Each year they plan a readathon – an
Only Tuesday Expo “Meet 15 book-loving kids (ages 9-12) from five different schools who have come together to read and create stories as “The Story Acrobats”. Inspired by the street art parkour, they’re building community, culture and identity through reading and writing in their spare time. Parkour is “the skill and the right to move
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