You can observe a lot by watching. YOGI BERRA The only important thing about design is how it relates to people. VICTOR PAPANEK One of the interesting things about planning a new library is thinking about design. This is another area where we have to begin with the end in mind and to know what [...]
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Library design, anyone?
December 1st, 2007 · No Comments · Design, libraries
Want to design a youth library in Nairobi, Kenya? Check out more about AMD’s Open Architecture Challenge to design a library and media space, internet cafe, and research center for SIDAREC, the Slums Information Development and Resources Centre. Their proposal astutely points out the problem of the digital divide: “Today’s world prosperity is technologically driven. The world [...]
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How long does it have to be?
November 14th, 2007 · 8 Comments · Design, Student projects
Probably one of the most frequently asked classroom and library questions about a project, paper, or even when a student is asked to check out book is–”How long does it have to be?” There are lots of things embedded in that question that bother me. First off, there is the notion kids have that [...]
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Young and hungry
September 11th, 2007 · No Comments · Design
Side by side in Business Week this week: “Young and Hungry” article about Indian companies and young Indians “desperate to improve their lives.” Facing that, an ad for steel company Arcelor Mittal, entitled “Boldness Changes Everything.” Thinking about what it would be like if all our students were “young and hungry” about reading and learning, [...]
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Redesigning Library “2.0″
July 3rd, 2007 · 2 Comments · Design, libraries
I met with our architects today for the redesign of our library/research center. We’ve been working on the plans for several months now, trying to create a new space that fits the philosophy of our library more closely. (I always say we have a 21st century library in a 19th century space!) The plans are coming [...]
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Design and the library
April 23rd, 2007 · 1 Comment · Design
Tomorrow I’m meeting with the architects to work on our new library design. I’m starting to feel a little anxious as we move out of the imagination stage and into the design going on paper stage. This project is one I have been envisioning for so long, yet it’s kind of daunting to actually think [...]
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Designing the future?
March 18th, 2007 · 1 Comment · Cross Curricular Connections, Design, Whole New Mind
Maybe because I’m working on the new plans for the library, as well as rereading Daniel Pink’s book Whole New Mind, plus having recently visited High Tech High, I’ve been obsessing a little bit lately over the idea of the role of design and creativity in schools, and pondering about what we could do better. [...]
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