Co-Design in Public Libraries
Future
Library
Our design group spent the first session learning about co-design by making a dream library of the future. It has a drone, cozy reading room, and garden!
Winter/Spring 2020
My Capstone Project site was at Seattle Public Libraries Broadview Branch and involved community outreach and technology for kids.
It was part of an existing collaboration between University of Washington KidsTeam Researchers and Seattle Public Libraries Digital Media and Learning Program.
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Graduate students, kids, and teen volunteers worked together to explore and provide feedback and design ideas for future SPL programs. These ideas are used to generate the new Digital Media and Learning Programs that will be available throughout the library branches.
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This experience makes me excited to join the world of librarianship, especially if it means that I can participate in exciting new programs that are designed with the future user.
Click here to view the E-Textiles website we created for the project.
E-textile
Llama
Sewing a conductive path takes careful planning even with a project this small.​
Planning
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Coding, sewing, crafting. It takes a lot of creativity and mess making to design an e-textile.
UW Co-Design Course
FALL 2019
Design &
In order to understand the complete process of designing and printing an object I had to make a butterfly for a class assignment. We used the design site Tinkercad.
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Tinkercad's
Workspace
Screenshot of the Tinkercad work plane where I was playing around with snap together parts. ​