2014 REform Aarhus peoples lab

1. People’s Lab
Shut up and hack
Aarhus School of Architecture
REform
Denmark
Project Team, ...

2. Logo of the project
Promoter(s).
Aarhus City Library,
Roskilde Libraries,
Aarhus School of
Architecture
Open Space Aarhus
Funder(s).
Danish Agency for
Culture
Aknowledgements.
Mie Nørgaard, Louise Overgaard, Marc Robert Moore

3. Context.
HOW & WHAT: Using
design interventions to
inspire new maker
communities in Aarhus
WHY: Empowerment,
strong local communities
& democracy
POTENTIAL: Making the
libraries into hubs for
makers – extending the
activities that go on in
libraries

4. The project.
We experiment with using
various design
interventions to bridge
users from a specialized
hobby community (hacking
electronics) and everyday
users of the public library
in order to inspire new and
unsuspected maker
activities and
communities.

5. The design
process.
In our case the local
hacker lab, Open Space
Aarhus, took seat and
made a month long
workshop at the city’s
main library – literally
living out and by
example producing the
vision of merging
practice based, technical
and academic based
knowledge.

6. Turning
Libraries
into
community
centers
Governance and Policy Making

7. encouraged and invited activism
Makers in residence facilitating public
engagement and place changing

8. Social Interactions and Relations
Engagement through making
Playfulness enabling bypassing cultural conventions

9. City and Environmental Planning
What might a future library contain?
From Library to community centre?

10. Skill Training and Design Education
Move design skills beyond
authorship of objects to become
facilitators of engagement

11. New professionals beyond librarians
Hacking as a short cut to innovation
Job Creation

12. reform.aarch.dk
peter.krogh@aarch.dk
Aarhus School of Architecture
REform
Denmark