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6:30 PM-8:00 PM
From a place of learning to a co-working space
Online Event|A Lecture by Dr. Klaus Ulrich Werner
- Language English
- Price Free admission, registration required
The self-image of libraries as a place of learning has changed fundamentally. Increasingly, libraries with their new space concept have become lively and public places that aim to cater for the diversified needs of the library users. In addition to the traditional "quiet working area" on the one hand and the communicative zones on the other, protected spaces for small working groups, training rooms and multifunctional areas for creative activities such as makerspaces are part of the profile of libraries - and most recently also the so-called co-working spaces. In many cases such spaces are already available, but they are not significantly elaborated, designed and communicated.
The lecture will present with examples the co-working space as a special public space typologically in its constitutive components. The speaker will also try to distinguish libraries from the globally popular commercial co-working spaces.
Über Dr. Klaus Ulrich Werner
Dr. Klaus Ulrich Werner is Library Director of the Philological Library of the Free University of Berlin. He studied German and History at the University of Freiburg and the University of Vienna, doctorate (Dr.phil.). After training as an academic librarian in Freiburg and Cologne, he first worked in publishing, and since 1991 in various libraries at the Free University of Berlin. From 2000-2005 he was project manager of the new building of the Philological Library ("The Berlin Brain") by the British architect Lord Norman Foster. In 2007-2010 he coordinated the planning of a new integration project of 24 institute libraries in a new building of the Free University. He is the author and editor of books and articles on library construction and library management and is also active as a speaker and consultant in this field in Germany and abroad. Klaus Werner is a member of the Commission for Library and Archive Construction of the German Institute for Standardisation (DIN). He was elected to the board of the German Library Association (dbv) in 2013.
The lecture will present with examples the co-working space as a special public space typologically in its constitutive components. The speaker will also try to distinguish libraries from the globally popular commercial co-working spaces.
Über Dr. Klaus Ulrich Werner
Dr. Klaus Ulrich Werner is Library Director of the Philological Library of the Free University of Berlin. He studied German and History at the University of Freiburg and the University of Vienna, doctorate (Dr.phil.). After training as an academic librarian in Freiburg and Cologne, he first worked in publishing, and since 1991 in various libraries at the Free University of Berlin. From 2000-2005 he was project manager of the new building of the Philological Library ("The Berlin Brain") by the British architect Lord Norman Foster. In 2007-2010 he coordinated the planning of a new integration project of 24 institute libraries in a new building of the Free University. He is the author and editor of books and articles on library construction and library management and is also active as a speaker and consultant in this field in Germany and abroad. Klaus Werner is a member of the Commission for Library and Archive Construction of the German Institute for Standardisation (DIN). He was elected to the board of the German Library Association (dbv) in 2013.