Workshops/Next Library Festival, Aarhus 2023
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Breakout session theme/option A.
23 Climate Things
Overview and Goals
Session length: 25 minutes
Session structure: Breakout groups (5-8 people per group)
Session goals,
Familiarize participants with the 23 Climate Things design and goals.
Identify the most interesting or imaginable of the proposed “things” — Drawing on our collective know-how, intuition, and experiences. Help us winnow 46 things down to 23!
Brainstorm, with a free imagination, how selected “things” could be produced and shared, and what kinds of locations and assignments might be possible.
Share with the whole room so everyone can learn from what was thought/discovered.
Your Assignment!
Choose a spokesperson
The spokesperson will be responsible for “sharing out” with the whole group at the end.
Review the 23 Climate Things concept
(5 minutes)
23 Climate Things is a new global initiative designed to help the library, museum and cultural sectors become dramatically more engaged with climate action in their communities.
Its sister project, the Culture for Climate Innovation Prize, is a €10-million incentive competition that will award its purse to the first cultural organizations (plural) to generate 10-million hours of bottom-up community effort towards the climate emergency. (Link to concept note for workshop participants.)
- 23 Climate Things is built around a series of 23 missions (episodes, or things) that introduce participants to 23 different ways of understanding and responding to the climate emergency.
- Inspired by the original 23 Things; 23 Mobile Things; and The Art Assignment, a video series that mixes studio visits with artist interviews and “assignments” that viewers can complete and share through social media.
- Each short video episode, or “thing”, will have 3 parts,
Explain and frame
An explainer segment in the studio, giving an overview of the topic
Real-world colleagues showing their cool work
A feature segment from a cool place in the field (e.g., in a library, a museum, a community) where colleagues we can relate to are already doing great work with the “thing”.
An assignment
An assignment: something that viewers could do and share to learn about the thing together, with their own hands (as a team, individuals, the whole library, or library + community)
3. Choose some things from the draft list
(10 minutes)
Working together, review the list of potential “things” (see below)
Highlight ones that resonate with you; put hearts next to ones you love, “x’s” or question marks next to those you don’t understand.
Discuss your reactions as a group. Which ones do you think your colleagues and/or community would want to know more about? Do you see patterns or synergies? Are there missing things? Or things we should leave out?
The Long List Of Potential Things
[ mobile-friendly text view ] [ PDF ]
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4. Choose 1 or 2 things in each category, then do some brainstorming…
(10 minutes)
Pick 1 or 2 things in each category that you, as a group or individuals, feel a connection to.
Discuss your choices. What draws you to these things in particular? Which ones do you think would help your library, colleagues, or community to think and act in new ways? Do any activities (assignments) or people/places to feature come to mind?
5. Prepare to share and discuss with the rest of the groups
(Just a few minutes)
Specific stories, questions, and observations are the most useful and generative.
6. Share!
Further reading
Concept note for 23 Climate Things
Concept note for Culture for Climate Innovation Prize
Climate Things (this website)