Session How do bookshelves and creative tables—designed for drawing, crafting, and building—come together to ignite curiosity in children’s libraries? At SeeArt Foundation, we create and support 30 children’s rooms with inspiring bookshelves (Books) and hands-on tables (Glue and Saw). In this session, we’ll share insights from these spaces and invite participants to a hands-on workshop, […]
Session Tackle misinformation in your community through play! Using our team’s experience co-designing and deploying misinformation escape room games worldwide, we’re conducting a rapid-fire design session in which participants will choose a misinformation context and design a game to address it. Talk to us after the session to inquire about turning the game idea into
Session Join us for a dynamic, game-like debate exploring AI in libraries! Through structured steps, teams will refine arguments, address opposing views, and develop balanced AI policies. Walk away with a ready-to-use activity to promote open, inclusive discussions in your library and community. Hosts Lidia Morris Lidia is a 4th year PhD candidate at the University
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Session In an era of misinformation, we must lean on our libraries to rebuild democracy, beginning with connection and play. The Library Newsroom combines conversation, storytelling, community  building and civic engagement to create a collaborative space where residents and the library come together to share stories, address challenges, and co-create solutions that help bridge social, informational and cultural
Small Hall – PLAY The Future Was Here….. Opportunities and Challenges with AI in Libraries M2 – PLAY Making Noise in the Library: Build Literacies and Community Through Music and Making The SDG Lab (Verdensrummet) – DEMOCRACY The Smallest Common Multiple Tinkering Lab – PLAY Books, Glue, Saw! U1-U2 – DEMOCRACY Libraries as Democracy’s Newsroom: Connecting
Session on-the-go Third Places—like libraries and other public spaces—are vital to democracy, yet navigating conflicting values can be challenging. How do we balance free speech vs. community harmony or neutrality vs. advocacy? In this interactive session, participants share experiences, explore dilemmas, and exchange strategies to strengthen democratic spaces. Participants are invited to share everyday challenges in
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Session Join community builder Ornella Somanza as she helps you uncover the essential layers of what it takes to build communities that foster personal and collective learning by doing. In this interactive session, you’ll gain hands-on experience in community building through digital storytelling and content creation. Walk away with practical tools and inspiration to foster
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Session Escape the Fake: Unlocking Media Literacy is an interactive escape room created by librarians from Barcelona, now adapted for global audiences. Participants will gain hands-on tools to combat misinformation, learn to customize the activity for their libraries, and leave inspired to promote critical thinking and media literacy. They’ll also have access to the Escape
Session Discover how the Lillestrøm and Drammen libraries foster co-creation between students, teachers, municipal leaders, NGOs, and researchers to promote democratic participation and sustainability education. Highlighting the library’s role as a democratic space, we demonstrate activities, present findings and future plans. Join our interactive session, where we explore ideas and exchange insights with participants using
Session Can literature help us understand our world better – and encourage personal action and democratic agency in a local context? What do we as citizens think of sustainability and climate change when we get to talk to writers, experts, and other citizens? In this session you can try out the literary public hearing method for
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