TALK CREATIVE TO ME EILEEN GILLETTE, MLIS EGILLETTE@GVPL.CA GREATER VICTORIA PUBLIC LIBRARY CORE DISTRICT COORDINATOR 2016 OLA CONFERENCE
MAKING THE CASE Culture as an Economic Engine Community Renewal and Revitalization Building Community Identity and Pride Positive Change in Communities Quality of Life/Quality of Place Personal and Social Development of Youth
TYPES OF CULTURAL SPACES Purpose-built spaces are designed and constructed from the outset to perform a specific function or number of functions. Multipurpose spaces are designed and constructed for broad use by a number of different art forms and/or other uses. Adaptive reuse spaces are those designed and built for one purpose, but readapted for a new or different arts and culture use. Live/work spaces are generally defined as facilities that are inhabited by artists during work and non-work hours. Exhibition spaces are those facilities where access is permitted to an audience in order for them to experience the art or artifacts.
ACTIVITIES Vancouver Island Regional Library Cumberland Branch
SLEEPING GIANT 1.FUNDING 2.TECHNOLOGY 3. AUDIENCE DEVELOPMENT
The buildings that house our post offices, courthouses, government agencies, and libraries are often grand but uninviting. They can also be a stage where friends meet, celebrations are held, and economic and cultural exchanges build a sense of community. Project for Public Spaces
OVERVIEW New York Public Library Pop-Up Reading Room
PLACEMAKING A process of transforming the physical environment into something culturally meaningful and collectively personal. STRENGTHENING THE CONNECTION BETWEEN PEOPLE AND THE PLACES THEY SHARE
PLACEMAKING REIMAGINE AND REINVENT OTTAWA QUEENSWAY OTTAWA MUSICAL UNDERGROUND SET THE STAGE
REIMAGINE AND REINVENT Chattanooga Public Library (4th Floor)
REIMAGINE AND REINVENT Idea Box: Located just inside the Main Library entrance, is a dedicated 19 x 13 space that each month provides a new and dynamic participatory community experience. Visitors are encouraged to learn through tinkering, fun, experimentation and play. Oak Park Public Library IL, United States
REIMAGINE AND REINVENT DIGITAL PLACEMAKING Digital Graffiti - TXTual Healing contextualizes text messaging into user generated storytelling, whether in public space or as an indoor installation.
Making Your Library Epic: Creative innovative learning spaces for student learning Diana Rendina
CREATING SPACES & PROJECTS ABOUT PEOPLE RETHINK - REFRAME - REMODEL - REINFORCE
YES VS. NO ENVIRONMENTS CHEONGGYECHEON RESTORATION PROJECT, SEOUL
YES VS. NO ENVIRONMENTS CHEONGGYECHEON RESTORATION PROJECT, SEOUL
YES VS. NO ENVIRONMENTS The thinking that got you to the problems you have: Will not be the thinking that gets you to where you want to be.
RETHINK - REFRAME - REMODEL - REINFORCE Requires developing a culture of risk-taking and experimentation.
CASE STUDIES RISK-TAKING & EXPERIMENTATION Use of empty sites for creative and community development. http://emptyspaces.culturemap.org.au/ http://emptyspaces.culturemap.org.au/popupparramatta
CASE STUDY RISK-TAKING & EXPERIMENTATION Write A House Detroit: Write A House is a different kind of writer s residency program. The goal is to use vocational training to renovate long time vacant homes, and then give away these homes to writers. For keeps. Forever. The program supports literary arts, vocational education, neighborhood stabilization, and the creation of more vibrant cities. http://www.writeahouse.org/
CASE STUDY RISK-TAKING & EXPERIMENTATION ART IN UNEXPECTED PLACES Chicago Loop Alliance - Temporary gallery, exhibition and interactive space at no cost to the artist.
CREATIVE LIBRARIES UNEXPECTED PLACES EDMONTON PUBLIC LIBRARY: BOOKLENDING MACHINE UNDERGROUND SUBWAY LIBRARY : BUSAN, KOREA.
CREATIVE LIBRARIES UNEXPECTED PLACES Creative City Sydney Lawn Library
CREATIVE LIBRARIES UNEXPECTED PLACES Amsterdam Schiphol Airport: Visitors can read books, download digital content, watch short movies and listen to music.
CREATIVE LIBRARIES UNEXPECTED PLACES Greater Victoria Public Library Bike Mobile
CASE STUDY RISK-TAKING & EXPERIMENTATION HACK/CREATIVE TECHNOLOGY SPACES
RISK-TAKING & EXPERIMENTATION FLEXIBLE SPACES MOBILE PROTOTYPING LAB: BetaBox ( Learn by doing anywhere ) is a rentable shipping container, kitted out with prototyping equipment to encourage and enable creativity on campus
RISK-TAKING & EXPERIMENTATION FLEXIBLE SPACES & MOBILE MEDIA KITS Greater Victoria Public Library Teen DigiLab
CREATIVE LIBRARIES
DEVELOP A CULTURAL/CREATIVE LENS FOR ALL INITIATIVES A cultural perspective that broadens the scope of development and planning could address: the level of community participation in the development of an initiative a project s authenticity in relation to the values of those who will be impacted impacts on opportunities for and access to cultural expression and participation opportunities to enrich the quality of daily life
CREATIVE LIBRARIES: o Understand how knowledge/information move between communities and within neighbourhoods. o Build relationships with community members and understand how you fit into their wider cultural life. o Gain a better understanding of how residents engage with the space at a community level; explore barriers to library access; and identify ways to strengthen local engagement.
CREATIVE LIBRARIES: o Creates conditions to think, plan and act with imagination. o Move away from Rules and Regulations - move towards principals, suggestion and recommendations. o Finds imaginative solutions to opportunities & problems.
CREATIVE LIBRARIES Aging Infrastructure: The year 2017 will mark Canada s halfcentury mark for a number of our major cultural facilities. Recognize and plan for cultural infrastructure as an integral component of infrastructure for 21st-century cities and communities. Rethink our approach to cultural infrastructure, with greater attention to issues of lifecycle, the interaction of social and built infrastructure, and long-term sustainability Creative City Network of Canada
CREATIVE LIBRARIES Librarians have to think about our spaces differently. Before we managed book collections, and today we re doing much more management of community spaces. That s where our role is heading towards more community development skills. Libraries that Matter Project for Public Space
CREATIVE LIBRAIRES Hamilton Grange Branch Library: NYPL s first full-floor space dedicated to teens.
CREATIVE LIBRARIES REIMAGINE AND REINVENT Kvarterhuset Copenhagen Denmark
CREATIVE LIBRARIES YES VS. NO SPACES Library out on the Lawn: Simple, lightweight signs give people permission to use a space they once thought off-limits - Mary Lou Carolan Wallkill Public Library NY
CREATIVE LIBRARIES RISK-TAKING & EXPERIMENTATION The Bexar County Digital Library BiblioTech San Antonio, TX
PUBLIC LIBRARIES CULTURAL ECOLOGY Toronto Public Library
MAKING THE CASE Culture as an Economic Engine Community Renewal and Revitalization Building Community Identity and Pride Positive Change in Communities Quality of Life/Quality of Place Personal and Social Development of Youth
Every place can be vibrant. Vibrancy is people.
THANK YOU! Eileen Gillette, MLIS egillette@gvpl.ca Greater Victoria Public Library Core District Coordinator NEW TETON COUNTY LIBRARY LIBRARY QUERIES EXHIBITION
QUESTIONS? San Diego public library has created a civic center for art. Now the exhibition program is going beyond the central library and out to all 35 branch libraries. The mission of the visual arts program is to demonstrate the library s role as a cultural institution embracing a broad range of disciplines.
QUESTIONS? The Library at Night is a virtual exploration of 10 of the world s most fascinating libraries. It was designed by the Ex Machina production company and its artistic director, multidisciplinary artist Robert Lepage, based on an original idea by BAnQ.
QUESTIONS? Story Pod - The "giant little library" is a reading nook by day, glowing lantern by night.
QUESTIONS? REIMAGINE AND REINVENT THE OUTDOOR LIBRARY: THE RENOVATION AND EXPANSION OF ANYTHINK PERL MACK IN DENVER, COLORADO
QUESTIONS?. MoMA Art Lab: PEOPLE is an interactive space where you can explore, play, and create as you discover people in art
QUESTIONS? The Urban Prototyping (UP) Festival is a global movement exploring how rapidly-prototyped design, art and technology projects can improve cities
QUESTIONS? In Order to Control NOTA BENE Visual