Reimagining Library Spaces by Diana Rendina

Author:Diana Rendina
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: International Society for Tech in Ed.
Published: 2017-03-17T04:00:00+00:00

Processing Survey and Focus Group Results

For your first meeting, gather your survey and focus group(s) results. Package the information into an easy-to-read report, and send it out to everyone in the library design team before the meeting. As with the focus groups, it’s ideal to have someone outside of the team available to take notes and/or to record the session. After everyone has had a chance to review the results, gather your team for a solution session.

In Edutopia’s fantastic video series, Remake Your Classroom, designers from The Third Teacher + have their volunteer team brainstorm ideas based around the themes of display, storage, furniture, teaching zone, and personality (Bill, 2013). Your themes might be slightly different based upon your space, but they could include things such as display, shelving, technology, interactive spaces, furniture, instruction space, teaching zone, reading zone, and personality. Consider using tools such as Post-It notes, poster board, whiteboards, and graph paper to organize your design team’s brainstorming ideas. The goal is to translate the results of your survey into concrete, actionable plans. We’ll discuss more design thinking strategies that you can use with your library design team in next section.

Another option to consider is to brainstorm based on zones of your library. Doorley and Witthoft (2012) created a design template of spaces that focus several zones. They include home base (the main location of individual and group work), gathering spaces (places where people meet in large or small groups), thresholds/transitions (entries, exits, and passages of a space), and support structure (things that support work, such as supply areas, printer/copier, kitchen space, etc.). You can also consider using the types of spaces discussed in Chapter 2, such as the six active learning spaces or Thornburg’s primordial metaphors, or create your own names for different zones. Again, always look for what will work best for you and your school.

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