Public Libraries as Living Labs

This article examines public libraries as Living Labs and explores how they can sustain open, participatory and technologically mediated forms of collective experimentation. Drawing on the case of the Library Living Lab in Sant Cugat del Vallès, it analyses how projects such as Brossa Inèdit and 3D...

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Bibliographic Details
Author: Hernández Pérez, Oskar|||0000-0002-3514-1802
Format: article
Publication Date:2021
Country:España
Institution:Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona
Repository:Dipòsit Digital de Documents de la UAB
Language:English
OAI Identifier:oai:dnet:uabarcelona_::6fdfd17e0ff55312773e0fe2fa2cbe9f
Online Access:https://ddd.uab.cat/record/327095
Access Level:Open access
Keyword:Co-creation
Living Labs
Public libraries
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Summary:This article examines public libraries as Living Labs and explores how they can sustain open, participatory and technologically mediated forms of collective experimentation. Drawing on the case of the Library Living Lab in Sant Cugat del Vallès, it analyses how projects such as Brossa Inèdit and 3D Capitals enabled communities to engage with technology, reinterpret cultural heritage, and collaboratively produce new forms of knowledge and public value. The article argues that public libraries can operate as socio-technical infrastructures for co-creation while also functioning as boundary organisations that connect heterogeneous communities of practice.