From group work to community building: the "Digital Creative Space" of the SUB Göttingen

Abstract

Libraries are faced with the challenge of developing learning environments in combination with online services and integrating them in digital learning environments. Aligning all this with users’ needs and implementing this in a spatially appealing manner is a multifaceted challenge. At the SUB Göttingen, we attempted to take all these aspects into account with the concept of a Digital Creative Space to create an innovative learning environment in collaboration with students. During the course of the project it became clear that the path is as important as the goal: The students should not be presented with a ready-made solution. Instead we chose to engage them in a participatory approach in order to build an open experimental area that can and should develop in line with the current and future needs of its users.