Name:

Library Test Kitchen

Date: 2016
Status: Active

A series of workshops that explore libraries through design and making

Begun at Harvard’s Graduate School of Design in 2011, Library Test Kitchen has taken a multitude of forms over the years. For a semester, it was a pop-up space in Harvard Square called LABRARY.

Projects have taken the form of furniture, pop-up spaces, publications, programming, services, or digital platforms. Currently, LTK is being offered as a summer 2017 course in collaboration with Simmons School of Library and Information Science.

Contact:

jessica \\ email

Collaborators:

Simmons SLIS, Jeff Goldenson

Links:

github,

Press:

The Library Test Kitchen at Harvard - The Boston Globe, The Library Test Kitchen - Harvard Magazine, In the Library Test Kitchen - Harvard Gazette, Library Test Kitchen 2016,

Bibliography / Inspiration:
How Buildings Learn, A Pattern Language, Make Space, Design Thinking for Libraries, Classified Illustrated Catalog of the Library Bureau, Inflatocookbook, Streetfight, The Library Beyond the Book, The Whole Earth Catalog,

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