Academic Libraries: Space Planning and Design Charrette

This is a sponsored event by the Harvard Graduate School of Design Executive Education.

An immersive one-day program focused on the unique space and design challenges of academic libraries. We will think about and test a range of aspects of space planning for academic libraries, including space design, understanding the library’s relationship with the broader institution, and specific impacts on space design.

The pandemic and other external forces, such as economics, online learning, and changing pedagogy, and new technologies are changing ways in which students learn and each of these impacts how academic libraries are evolving their collecting priorities, the space taken up by collections, and new ways spaces are used in our libraries.

Learning will involve hands-on charrettes in small groups for participants to practice the concepts discussed in case studies and class discussions.