Session How can a library grow into something new and exciting? How can it offer a safe space to engage the local community? How can it be a consistent presence in a neighborhood during a period of transition and insecurity? In a socially vulnerable area in a suburb outside of Copenhagen, we are working with […]
Sunday, Monday and Tuesday Expo The Quest for the Truth is an interactive exhibit and learning resource about algorithms and fake news that is designed for young citizens. It probes how social media can be a major influencer in our democratic processes. The project is a collaboration between Tenk.no and Bergen Public Library (BOB). Tenk.no
Welcome to Solbjerg Library, a brand-new combined school and public library in a vibrant community of 5,000 residents. Join us for an exclusive tour of this innovative space, where inspiration, curiosity, and intergenerational connections are at the heart of the design. You’ll meet a library staff member who has been part of the journey, sharing
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Session Everyone makes music in this hands-on workshop – no experience necessary! Form a library-powered band, craft a jingle celebrating libraries, create promo posters, and craft merch using common library tools. Along the way, explore creative writing, making, and outreach. Leave with a template for a music–and–making program to build community and creativity in any
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Session This session will provide a glimpse behind the veil into the future use of technology in libraries. How will our work change? What will it mean for our services and contact with library users? What will be the impact on the content and use of our collections? No means of looking into the future
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Session How can games in libraries support digital civic engagement? In the session, we will test a tabletop game where players assume different roles in investigating and collaborating to solve problems that benefit their community. Participants will reflect on adapting the game to fit their context and consider librarians’ role in sparking meaningful conversations about
Session on-the-go The workshop explores urban and intergenerational learning, inviting participants to engage in a collective mapping exercise in the streets of Aarhus. We will think about play as intergenerational learning through sensory observation, creative documentation techniques, and dialogues in the street. Participants will also learn about living archives, counter-cartographies, and multimodal ethnographies, as well
Session on-the-go The EPIC-WE project would like to offer a session-on-the-go at ARoS. Through a guided tour at ARoS, participants will view the artworks that young people have playfully engaged with during game jams at the museum to create their games for culture. The games themselves will be exhibited at Dokk1. Host The Horizon Europe
Session Come play with the latest STEAM activity from the MIT Public Library Innovation Exchange (PLIX). Data Gems invites you to create rules for playfully and privately tracking personally meaningful data. Using familiar materials, wearable data trackers can take the form of bracelets, keychains, and pocket data collectors. Tap into early data literacy: data representations, biases, and data privacy!
Session Explore active citizenship through play, food, and positive potatoes. In this session we will find out how we can be active citizens and contribute to an annual international ‘Potato Festival’. This will be a place to share, contribute, connect, and spread some positivity. Hosts Rebecca Ainsworth Rebecca is Creative Lives Officer at Arts in
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