THE FUTURE OF COMMUNITIES

摘要

Community engagement is at the heart of Dokkl, the main branch of the Aarhus Public Libraries, Denmark. The system received a $1 million grant from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation's Global Libraries division to "pioneer an innovative library model" with the help of IDEO, a global design company (see "The Future of Futures, p. 24ff.). Its efforts were rewarded with IFLA's 2016 Public Library of the Year award. The jury noted that "with a high degree of user inclusion during the construction process, the intention has been to transform the [building] from being the library's place to being the citizens' place."