Balagan! Masterexamensprojektet The Darling Tweens i samarbete med Sara Stiber för Stadsbiblioteket i Malmö
Balagan! - for 9-12 year old on the City library of Malmö?Balagan! A place far away, filled with magical things. Here, a group of scientistsleft their research labs behind, in a seemingly endless story exploratorium.Now, a group of kids discover the place, trough a doorway found insidethe City Library of Malmo... They named the place Balagan. Together, theystart to create a world of stories...?We, me and Sara Stiber have made a project in cooperation with the City Libraryof Malmö, where we have been developing a concept for a soon-to-belibrary department for 9-12 year old. The library wants to create an innovativeand playful meeting place, which challenges the traditional perceptionof a library. We have taken up the children?s need for literacy, creativity andstories - and created a ?story exploratorium? - a place for playful creation,experimentation, games, and stories. A place to fall in love with storytelling.And through that, find inspiration to read.A big part of our project has been devoted to finding a method ? how to findout what the kids really wish for, and actually needs. We have designed aseries of workshops to which we have invited kids from two schools in Malmoto partake. Through involving them in various idea-, design-, and storytellingactivities, a user centred method for designing for children, has formed.In order to open up, and run an outgoing design process, we have built up ouroffice on the same location where the new department will take place, in themidst of the library visitors.Me and Sara have designed the concept together, then my part have been tocreate the room and all the interior. This report will take the reader throughthe process of creating spaces with qualities of a stage and a cocoon withinspirations from games to be experienced as a story itself.