Unconference Session: Space Jam, Rethinking Library Spaces
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2 libraries
Don't like-urban libraries are very small. Challenge in packing functions & services.
Very fixed.
Wants modular & flexible.
Remove stacks, put table in. Feels like study room.
Mental break from classroom. O.k. to hangout. Dictate own study habits.
How to balance beauty and tradition with modular and flexible.
Too efficient, cubicals, loses aesthetics.
Faculty get uncomfortable. Hour lunch makes hanging out too loud.
Quiet area should be maintained for kids who need that.
Group study 5-10 kids is key.
Glassed in rooms help with
Comfortable chairs, study carols in reference room. No talking at all.
Middle room computer area, in between. Talk about projects.
Back room collaborative. Loud, hangout, talk. Doors contain noise.
Tall stacks=no display=lower circulation.
Serendipity of the browse
Exciting for them.
*WE ARE A COLLEGE LIBRARY.
Let's take photos. "Challenges and successes"
ALA aspiration interviews to find out what they do want.
Maybe we need to market better.
Come up with obstacles.
The School at Columbia
Designed in forward thinking way. Grand Central Station. Hard to teach in space. Lots of little spaces.
Surveyed all students. Quiet reading corner, cozy spots.
Destination, not a passthrough.
Collaboration and instruction.
Larger instructional space has been great. Teachers in with small groups. Always being used. "My favorite place int eh school"
Reading cocoons hugely popular.
Involved a lot
Little enclosed spaces, privacy.
"Mobile" stacks are too heavy and a caster broke when trying to move a shelf.
Fieldstone starting this summer. Roof first.
Rocking chairs have changed her life. Heavy and obnoxiously big, take up space. Kids love them. In front of windows???!
Next 10 years, functionality:
3D printer. Doesn't get used because not attahed to class that uses it.
Makerspace run by tech integrators. Close by, but not in library space.
For advisees:
3D pens
Google cardboard
Do you need free time built in schedule to have
Basement steam hub
What is STEAM hub?? Follow up.
Resources for all students on floors
Top floor learning specialist and reader's workshop supplies.
Jumped into Makerspace with no curriculum. Kind of a disaster. Soddering--lawsuit coming??
10 years from now: what will we look like?
Physical books.
Needs come from the community.
Great space for teachers, parents, stakeholders to come and be together. Would be great if push cam efrom community. What else do they want and need in there?
Flexibility allows us to change our minds.
POWER SOURCE is a must/infrastructure.
Meetings in evenings. Development receptions. Model UN. Trustees.
Can we make it available to constituent groups?
Big screen comes behind book shelves.
Programming for them as well.
Chocolate is helpful.
Parents-at night. Adds more hours to long day.
SELF ADVOCACY. Get on it!
Old admin iphones loaded with Audacity and/or use to download ebooks?
2 libraries
Don't like-urban libraries are very small. Challenge in packing functions & services.
Very fixed.
Wants modular & flexible.
Remove stacks, put table in. Feels like study room.
Mental break from classroom. O.k. to hangout. Dictate own study habits.
How to balance beauty and tradition with modular and flexible.
Too efficient, cubicals, loses aesthetics.
Faculty get uncomfortable. Hour lunch makes hanging out too loud.
Quiet area should be maintained for kids who need that.
Group study 5-10 kids is key.
Glassed in rooms help with
Comfortable chairs, study carols in reference room. No talking at all.
Middle room computer area, in between. Talk about projects.
Back room collaborative. Loud, hangout, talk. Doors contain noise.
Tall stacks=no display=lower circulation.
Serendipity of the browse
Exciting for them.
*WE ARE A COLLEGE LIBRARY.
Let's take photos. "Challenges and successes"
ALA aspiration interviews to find out what they do want.
Maybe we need to market better.
Come up with obstacles.
The School at Columbia
Designed in forward thinking way. Grand Central Station. Hard to teach in space. Lots of little spaces.
Surveyed all students. Quiet reading corner, cozy spots.
Destination, not a passthrough.
Collaboration and instruction.
Larger instructional space has been great. Teachers in with small groups. Always being used. "My favorite place int eh school"
Reading cocoons hugely popular.
Involved a lot
Little enclosed spaces, privacy.
"Mobile" stacks are too heavy and a caster broke when trying to move a shelf.
Fieldstone starting this summer. Roof first.
Rocking chairs have changed her life. Heavy and obnoxiously big, take up space. Kids love them. In front of windows???!
Next 10 years, functionality:
3D printer. Doesn't get used because not attahed to class that uses it.
Makerspace run by tech integrators. Close by, but not in library space.
For advisees:
3D pens
Google cardboard
Do you need free time built in schedule to have
Basement steam hub
What is STEAM hub?? Follow up.
Resources for all students on floors
Top floor learning specialist and reader's workshop supplies.
Jumped into Makerspace with no curriculum. Kind of a disaster. Soddering--lawsuit coming??
10 years from now: what will we look like?
Physical books.
Needs come from the community.
Great space for teachers, parents, stakeholders to come and be together. Would be great if push cam efrom community. What else do they want and need in there?
Flexibility allows us to change our minds.
POWER SOURCE is a must/infrastructure.
Meetings in evenings. Development receptions. Model UN. Trustees.
Can we make it available to constituent groups?
Big screen comes behind book shelves.
Programming for them as well.
Chocolate is helpful.
Parents-at night. Adds more hours to long day.
SELF ADVOCACY. Get on it!
Old admin iphones loaded with Audacity and/or use to download ebooks?
Speaker: Emily Pillotin
High school project: Watch her documentary: If you build it.
Trained as architect. Obsessed with it! As doing it, started hating it. Disconnected with things that she really loves. Stopped feeling like problem solving. More arguing about door knobs. Became an educator by accident.
Project H
Project based learning, Makerspaces, Design Thinking is interesting, but at heart there is deep sense of creativity that we all have in us. Not easy to learn or nurture is creativity.
Protocols: We are all creative. We all want to be creative. We can spend our lives being creative.
Lessons she has learned:
Be afraid to fail.
Then be brave and start.
You have to start before you're ready. If you keep preparing, you're probably never going to start. "Whatever. I'm still going to do it."
Bertie County, NC pop. 18,000. Flat, hot, lots of tobacco, Eastern NY. Superintendent saw work in Dwell Magazine. Trying to fix school district, asked her to come help. Start of long working relationship.
Physically rebuilt campus.
Realized 1.5 yrs. in, felt disingenuous flying into NC and then leaving. Proposed that they move there and teach and run Design/Build program, come to their class, and learn fundamentals of design, construction, trades, architecture, creativity. Build things for their community.
Town of 2,000 nothing gets built, crazy idea.
Can we pull this off?!
Bravity or naivety?!
Partnered with community college.
Forced to be in class (33 students).
Earned 13 college credits (all elective credits). The rest of the day was online. They were the only human teachers all day. PE was online!
Some didn't want to be there.
Why am I in a barn? Stuff everywhere? Where are the desks?
Justify design as a meaningful process.
1st challenge: design a chicken coop.
Square + triangle.
Now no squares or triangles.
Precedent study assigned to a student.
Geodesic dome given to a student. Inspired chicken coop. Geometric designs--cardboard scored & bent. Let's build it!
Plywood, hinged.
Midwelding to build structure
Coopus Maximus.
Way to show them that you are here for a reason. This is what you're capable of. Not only will we entertain your ideas, we will make it real.
[AMAZING BLUE DOTS with Design process on walls.
We will build a piece of architecture for the town.
3 weeks before class started, Dr. Zollinger was run out of town by angry school board.
Town did not have a Farmers Market.
Ballsy thing to propose. Closest one is 80 miles away. Food dessert.
Lots of excitement for different reasons. Farmers with kale to sale. Students want to work there. Community wants to gather. Mayor wants a small scale econ stimulus. Students are pumped.
Students Researching & prototyping.
Mayor/town council donated plot of land.
Google sketchup model being shown Karon and town council tycoon. Awesome opportunity for conversation that would never have occured otherwise.
Emotional, cyclical process of pulling concepts into one.
Structure in Bertie county inspired. Eight bays for peanut trailers.
7 degree angle in base was omage to some famous designer(?) Esoseridan?
Hundred degrees outside digging holes and pouring concrete.
Students unfazed. This is our project.
Foundation footers.
Built skeletal trusses.
NC labor law, no power tools. Had to prefabricate during school year, disassemble, and code.
Had to engineer this ubilding. Show students.
Summer 2010, 5.0 earthquake in NC. Flood, F4 tornado, all during construction.
Farmers Market opened at end of summer.
Structure built. Have to drum up farmers to come. Social entrepreneurship learning experience!
If you build it, they won't necessarily come.
Student took mic rom mayor. Doubted experience in barn. No hope of college. Going now and can't wait to bring my own kids back some day and tell them "I built this.". Just graduated from NC State. :)
Design. Build. Imagine.
Is what you're doing making a difference in others' lives?
SHOW AT SCHOOL! "If you build it."
Available on Netflix & iTunes.
Lesson 2:
Build off of your successes.
Decided to build 100 ft. stands where you could set up and sell anytime.
Farmer's Market is still up and running. Tons of vendors. 15 full time jobs. Bigger than Dominoes when they came to town.
Most went to college. Not in family conversation prior. Some stayed in town, one manages farm that sells at market.
Lesson 3:
And build off of your failures! (more important maybe?)
Left after 2nd year of teaching.
Despite support from town and families, school board still didn't want them there. Had hate in their blood.
Left behind and program discontinued.
Were recruited by charter school in Berkeley to bring program there.
She's from Bay area. Didn't know if she wanted to go there. So far from Bertie county.
Realm Charter School, only one in Berkeley. Urban charter shcool. Project based learning curriculum.
Can't offer it just at high school. Has to go with middle schoolers too.
8th graders with power tools?!?!
Lesson learned: Curiosity trumps passion (many questions are better than one answer.).
More important to ask good questions than to seek one specific answer.
270 students in this program.
Team taught.
What do you want to build?
New age school, no school library. Kids really wanted a library!
Went to public library first as research study. How are books arranged? How many books per sq. ft? How do they deal with sound?
Decided this is boring. Walk in, look for DD, get book, and leave. Super lame.
What is not lame?
Want a library that doesn't feel like a library where you can go and discover things. Felt like a wonderland.
Not know what you're looking for, be transfixed by a lot of things.
A place that's comfortable and about discovery.
What does that mean?
What does discovery look like?
How do you display books?
Flow of room?
Many models, many ideas.
Designed one building blok that they could make many things out of. Glorified lego. Can change year to year. X shaped shelf, locks together. Some convex shape, some concave. Make wave length front.
We're learning Algebra, X is the unknown. This oculd be the X space, where we go to discvoer things that we don't know! She was sold.
We want it to change with us.
Bench/shelf
Tables
Shelves run full length of wall.
Exhibition space with tables
Framed, fixed shelves.
http://abc7news.com/archive/9511752/ I have heard of this one!
Nothing is cataloged.
Feels unfixed. Doesn't matter to them, bothers her.
Lesson: Doing things for others in the real world teaches us everything we need to know.
High school project: Build 2 microhouses.
Mission: teach every subject through lense of housing.
Social piece: Who is going to live in it? Who are they as people? What socioeconomic/race do they bring? What history of demographic?
Math/science: how do we get it to stand up? What geometry do we need? Physics? Natural science-what wood? Cost of green lumber? Local? Scavenge things? Environmental impact.
Build 2: mirror images of each other.
1-donated to homeless shelter who uses tiny village for transitional home 9 month.
1-auctioned on eBay
Made dozens of models. Fun part!
Talk about your work. Critique, presentation element. Most students uncomfortable with this. This is where all collaboration occurs. Training--how to be in a critique. How to talk about your own, how to give feedback to others.
Workflow, employment, job site etiquette.
80 students in 4 class periods, new crew every hour.
Came up with step by step framing scheme. Practiced it. Step 1-go! Super scripted. Project management 101.
On site of school, built on trailer. Thinking about client all along the way.
We don't know the person yet, but know enough about organization that we can make asumptions about what they may need. Made decisions based on that. Framed it, raised walls. 9 students raised walls together. None could have done this individually. Some have beef with each other, you better leave beef at door and work together, trust, don't drop wall on someone's foot. No gossipy crap, get it done.
Budget very specific $5,000/house. Grant money raised.
Getting close to budget limit thinking about siding. Couldn't afford first choice. Pallet wood. Took them apart. Systematically cut, planed, sealed. Used as siding. BEAUTIFUL.
No toilet or kitchen. Shared facilities at homeless--one "mansion house" won't work. Wired for electrical. 4 solar panels.
Lesson: Bring your story. Students want to hear it.
Do you have to be the expert perveyor of knowledge?
No, students just want you to be human. Vulnerable enough to share your own story.
Camp H for girls.
Create space with access to tools.
Mastering, applying.
Riley?? http://www.projecthdesign.org/programs/camp-h/ Oh, it's in Berkeley.
Maker camp @ Emma????
Ken?
Meredith?
Caroline?
Researched meaning of names.
Understand tools and what they mean.
Idea of sisterhood. Do in group of other girls and make it all the more meaningful.
Welding! "FEARLESS".
Can do things together, and do things for other people.
Women's domestic violence shelter.
We are a group of 10 year old girls + me. What do you need?
Bookshelf, tables. Great, we can build them for you.
Masonry unit. Mixed concrete precisely, built concrete topped coffee table.
Playhouse for residential side backyard.
Last week: build whatever you want to build. Go!
Nightstands. Skateboard. Garden tool organizer.
Suitcase lego organizer.
Bring own Idea to execution.
Skateboard studio lazered with lazer etching. Then learned how to skateboard!
Here's something that I've experienced that makes me interested in doing x, y, z. What are you interested in? What's your story?
Unprofessional development workshop.
Hello.
I haven't made a change in my career because I'm afraid I'm not good enough, (and comfortable is easier).
I haven't done anything about starting a business because I am afraid no one will want my jewelry.
What are you afraid to do? Why haven't you done it?
Say it out loud to each other. Acknowledge it. Then do it.
Speed dating, talk with each other about various things.
Learned knots and practiced over and over.
Design challenge at Brown School
2 Ikea bags: design garment for end of the world.
No scissors constraint.
1 bag.
Everything out of triangles.
Lots of fun!
Getting stuck and frustrated. Not knowing how to start. Problem solving. Felt like my students.
"Lifelong learning" starts with us. Be a student first.
Fail, be creative, write one more draft, be uncomfortable, figure it out. We must do it ourselves to model for them.
Try things many times.
Trained as architect. Obsessed with it! As doing it, started hating it. Disconnected with things that she really loves. Stopped feeling like problem solving. More arguing about door knobs. Became an educator by accident.
Project H
Project based learning, Makerspaces, Design Thinking is interesting, but at heart there is deep sense of creativity that we all have in us. Not easy to learn or nurture is creativity.
Protocols: We are all creative. We all want to be creative. We can spend our lives being creative.
Lessons she has learned:
Be afraid to fail.
Then be brave and start.
You have to start before you're ready. If you keep preparing, you're probably never going to start. "Whatever. I'm still going to do it."
Bertie County, NC pop. 18,000. Flat, hot, lots of tobacco, Eastern NY. Superintendent saw work in Dwell Magazine. Trying to fix school district, asked her to come help. Start of long working relationship.
Physically rebuilt campus.
Realized 1.5 yrs. in, felt disingenuous flying into NC and then leaving. Proposed that they move there and teach and run Design/Build program, come to their class, and learn fundamentals of design, construction, trades, architecture, creativity. Build things for their community.
Town of 2,000 nothing gets built, crazy idea.
Can we pull this off?!
Bravity or naivety?!
Partnered with community college.
Forced to be in class (33 students).
Earned 13 college credits (all elective credits). The rest of the day was online. They were the only human teachers all day. PE was online!
Some didn't want to be there.
Why am I in a barn? Stuff everywhere? Where are the desks?
Justify design as a meaningful process.
1st challenge: design a chicken coop.
Square + triangle.
Now no squares or triangles.
Precedent study assigned to a student.
Geodesic dome given to a student. Inspired chicken coop. Geometric designs--cardboard scored & bent. Let's build it!
Plywood, hinged.
Midwelding to build structure
Coopus Maximus.
Way to show them that you are here for a reason. This is what you're capable of. Not only will we entertain your ideas, we will make it real.
[AMAZING BLUE DOTS with Design process on walls.
We will build a piece of architecture for the town.
3 weeks before class started, Dr. Zollinger was run out of town by angry school board.
Town did not have a Farmers Market.
Ballsy thing to propose. Closest one is 80 miles away. Food dessert.
Lots of excitement for different reasons. Farmers with kale to sale. Students want to work there. Community wants to gather. Mayor wants a small scale econ stimulus. Students are pumped.
Students Researching & prototyping.
Mayor/town council donated plot of land.
Google sketchup model being shown Karon and town council tycoon. Awesome opportunity for conversation that would never have occured otherwise.
Emotional, cyclical process of pulling concepts into one.
Structure in Bertie county inspired. Eight bays for peanut trailers.
7 degree angle in base was omage to some famous designer(?) Esoseridan?
Hundred degrees outside digging holes and pouring concrete.
Students unfazed. This is our project.
Foundation footers.
Built skeletal trusses.
NC labor law, no power tools. Had to prefabricate during school year, disassemble, and code.
Had to engineer this ubilding. Show students.
Summer 2010, 5.0 earthquake in NC. Flood, F4 tornado, all during construction.
Farmers Market opened at end of summer.
Structure built. Have to drum up farmers to come. Social entrepreneurship learning experience!
If you build it, they won't necessarily come.
Student took mic rom mayor. Doubted experience in barn. No hope of college. Going now and can't wait to bring my own kids back some day and tell them "I built this.". Just graduated from NC State. :)
Design. Build. Imagine.
Is what you're doing making a difference in others' lives?
SHOW AT SCHOOL! "If you build it."
Available on Netflix & iTunes.
Lesson 2:
Build off of your successes.
Decided to build 100 ft. stands where you could set up and sell anytime.
Farmer's Market is still up and running. Tons of vendors. 15 full time jobs. Bigger than Dominoes when they came to town.
Most went to college. Not in family conversation prior. Some stayed in town, one manages farm that sells at market.
Lesson 3:
And build off of your failures! (more important maybe?)
Left after 2nd year of teaching.
Despite support from town and families, school board still didn't want them there. Had hate in their blood.
Left behind and program discontinued.
Were recruited by charter school in Berkeley to bring program there.
She's from Bay area. Didn't know if she wanted to go there. So far from Bertie county.
Realm Charter School, only one in Berkeley. Urban charter shcool. Project based learning curriculum.
Can't offer it just at high school. Has to go with middle schoolers too.
8th graders with power tools?!?!
Lesson learned: Curiosity trumps passion (many questions are better than one answer.).
More important to ask good questions than to seek one specific answer.
270 students in this program.
Team taught.
What do you want to build?
New age school, no school library. Kids really wanted a library!
Went to public library first as research study. How are books arranged? How many books per sq. ft? How do they deal with sound?
Decided this is boring. Walk in, look for DD, get book, and leave. Super lame.
What is not lame?
Want a library that doesn't feel like a library where you can go and discover things. Felt like a wonderland.
Not know what you're looking for, be transfixed by a lot of things.
A place that's comfortable and about discovery.
What does that mean?
What does discovery look like?
How do you display books?
Flow of room?
Many models, many ideas.
Designed one building blok that they could make many things out of. Glorified lego. Can change year to year. X shaped shelf, locks together. Some convex shape, some concave. Make wave length front.
We're learning Algebra, X is the unknown. This oculd be the X space, where we go to discvoer things that we don't know! She was sold.
We want it to change with us.
Bench/shelf
Tables
Shelves run full length of wall.
Exhibition space with tables
Framed, fixed shelves.
http://abc7news.com/archive/9511752/ I have heard of this one!
Nothing is cataloged.
Feels unfixed. Doesn't matter to them, bothers her.
Lesson: Doing things for others in the real world teaches us everything we need to know.
High school project: Build 2 microhouses.
Mission: teach every subject through lense of housing.
Social piece: Who is going to live in it? Who are they as people? What socioeconomic/race do they bring? What history of demographic?
Math/science: how do we get it to stand up? What geometry do we need? Physics? Natural science-what wood? Cost of green lumber? Local? Scavenge things? Environmental impact.
Build 2: mirror images of each other.
1-donated to homeless shelter who uses tiny village for transitional home 9 month.
1-auctioned on eBay
Made dozens of models. Fun part!
Talk about your work. Critique, presentation element. Most students uncomfortable with this. This is where all collaboration occurs. Training--how to be in a critique. How to talk about your own, how to give feedback to others.
Workflow, employment, job site etiquette.
80 students in 4 class periods, new crew every hour.
Came up with step by step framing scheme. Practiced it. Step 1-go! Super scripted. Project management 101.
On site of school, built on trailer. Thinking about client all along the way.
We don't know the person yet, but know enough about organization that we can make asumptions about what they may need. Made decisions based on that. Framed it, raised walls. 9 students raised walls together. None could have done this individually. Some have beef with each other, you better leave beef at door and work together, trust, don't drop wall on someone's foot. No gossipy crap, get it done.
Budget very specific $5,000/house. Grant money raised.
Getting close to budget limit thinking about siding. Couldn't afford first choice. Pallet wood. Took them apart. Systematically cut, planed, sealed. Used as siding. BEAUTIFUL.
No toilet or kitchen. Shared facilities at homeless--one "mansion house" won't work. Wired for electrical. 4 solar panels.
Lesson: Bring your story. Students want to hear it.
Do you have to be the expert perveyor of knowledge?
No, students just want you to be human. Vulnerable enough to share your own story.
Camp H for girls.
Create space with access to tools.
Mastering, applying.
Riley?? http://www.projecthdesign.org/programs/camp-h/ Oh, it's in Berkeley.
Maker camp @ Emma????
Ken?
Meredith?
Caroline?
Researched meaning of names.
Understand tools and what they mean.
Idea of sisterhood. Do in group of other girls and make it all the more meaningful.
Welding! "FEARLESS".
Can do things together, and do things for other people.
Women's domestic violence shelter.
We are a group of 10 year old girls + me. What do you need?
Bookshelf, tables. Great, we can build them for you.
Masonry unit. Mixed concrete precisely, built concrete topped coffee table.
Playhouse for residential side backyard.
Last week: build whatever you want to build. Go!
Nightstands. Skateboard. Garden tool organizer.
Suitcase lego organizer.
Bring own Idea to execution.
Skateboard studio lazered with lazer etching. Then learned how to skateboard!
Here's something that I've experienced that makes me interested in doing x, y, z. What are you interested in? What's your story?
Unprofessional development workshop.
Hello.
I haven't made a change in my career because I'm afraid I'm not good enough, (and comfortable is easier).
I haven't done anything about starting a business because I am afraid no one will want my jewelry.
What are you afraid to do? Why haven't you done it?
Say it out loud to each other. Acknowledge it. Then do it.
Speed dating, talk with each other about various things.
Learned knots and practiced over and over.
Design challenge at Brown School
2 Ikea bags: design garment for end of the world.
No scissors constraint.
1 bag.
Everything out of triangles.
Lots of fun!
Getting stuck and frustrated. Not knowing how to start. Problem solving. Felt like my students.
"Lifelong learning" starts with us. Be a student first.
Fail, be creative, write one more draft, be uncomfortable, figure it out. We must do it ourselves to model for them.
Try things many times.