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NEXT LIBRARY 2025

The Future Begins at the Library – Empowering Citizens to Shape Tomorrow

Session How do you imagine your community—or the world—in 2040 or 2050? Will it be better, worse, or much the same? What about the climate, health, peace, wealth, or local parks and schools? What shapes your views—and are you ready for different futures? Futures literacy is the skill of thinking in this way—and teaching others […]

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Literary Forest Paths

Session on-the-go Refresh your connection with nature in a session designed to let you breathe, explore, and observe the natural world with curiosity and playfulness. Together, we’ll walk backwards into the landscape—waving goodbye to convention—and step into an adventure filled with both forest and literary sceneries. We’ll return to the built environment with a renewed

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What Does a Baobab Sound and Taste Like: Building a Collaborative Catalog of Tastes and Sounds

Session on-the-go From Estrela House Garden Library comes a small outdoor lab that includes samples from a wood archive. Let’s generate together the first catalog of tastes and sounds for the Lisbon Libraries. Combining root and leaf tasting (baobab and carob included) with nature classification, you will find original ways to register tastes and leave

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Discover the Magic of Everyday Nature – Bringing Families Closer to Nature with the Outdoor Library

Session In 2021, Silkeborg Libraries launched the Outdoor Library to strengthen children’s and families’ connection to nature. Through hands-on activities and creative tools, we help make outdoor exploration easy and engaging. Our initiatives include: Nature backpacks filled with equipment, books, and activities Nature scavenger hunts Creative workshops with natural materials A children’s book on endangered

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Libraries and Landscapes: Hands-on Exploration of Wild Herbs and Nature Connectedness

Session on-the-go Join me for a hands-on, sensory-rich session of finding, touching, smelling and tasting wild Danish spring herbs in their surroundings. We will meet around the fire for an introduction to the herbs. By ourselves, we will practice foraging for them to get an embodied sense of the landscape in which we are placed.

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Concopian

Session & Expo The Concopian Chamber of Wonders invites all Next Library participants to come together, engage in vibrant conversations, and respond to the challenges of our time with zeal and ingenuity. It is a space for respectful divergence, encouraging conversations across generations, professions, beliefs, viewpoints, and nationalities. Concopia fuels a thirst for knowledge, sparks

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Dokk1 in the Multiverse: Journey into the Future of Libraries Through Innovation and Imagination

Session In 20X6, the world has changed. Dokk1, once a library, innovation platform, and free space, now faces an uncertain future. Has it evolved? Can we still recognize what we loved and find what we seek in a library?  Join us on a journey imagining Dokk1’s place in the multiverse. Using AI and props, we’ll

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Emotions in Motion: Inspiring Stewardship Through Connection To Place

Session We care for what we love. Awakening emotional connections to place inspires people to be better stewards of it. This workshop will invite collaboration and playful model-making with familiar materials to activate memories, (re)awaken understanding and connection, kindle joy and collaboration, and foster care and love of place. Participants will gain inspiration and tools

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