Charged by
LSE architects and the St. Paul Public Library to offer a proposal for the new
Highland Park community library teen space, our Designing Change class is diving in to makerspaces,
FabLabs, and tech centers using twitter,
interviews & site visits. We’ve saturated the studio space with the results
of our research.
We’re also
glad to have Stanford Design School consultant Anna Love-Mickelson’s enthusiasm
for this final design cycle. Yesterday she taught us how to unpack our site
visits and interviews using headline note taking to pull out and preserve
information. Then, we sorted the idea looking
for surprises, tensions, contradictions, and insights before creating Point of
View statements.
While there’s a
temptation to focus on furniture and technology, the process keeps us focused
on emotional qualities. Here are a
couple POV statement observations:
- It would be GAME CHANGING if we could created a thought provoking teen space where young people feel comfortable taking risks.
- It would be GAME CHANGING if we created a versatile space that fosters community within the teen space.
Aiming for a December 11th
presentation to the architects and the library, we’ll ideate and immerse ourselves in
prototypes in the next couple weeks.
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