The plight of the intangible.
After looking at the amazing work by Vanessa, I really need to pause and reboot what I'm doing. In reflection, my design challenge statement to too vague because I was seeking something universal in my thinking. At some point in the next module, I'll need to ground my design challenge into something that is more than a district-level resource package. There are too many self-inflicted unknowns in play when I'm unable to specify what level of the library I want to change.
Because my data collection was based on the opinions of different colleagues, I had a hard time imagining a change to a specific space, and adopted to propose a large-scale extrapolation of needs that might attempt to serve multiple schools across different contexts. This is extremely challenging to do, not least of which because it asks one to imagine all possible scenarios.
Perhaps working in the abstract can be aligned with a tangible, real, working library space I am familiar with.
In my Learning Environments post, I describe the proposed and progress changes that a friend and mentor, Natalie, is making in her elementary school library to move towards a comprehensive ADST exploration space. Natalie is already undertaking an amazing transformation with the support of her colleagues and her administrator.
I will need to go back to the drawing board - quite literally at the Linoit Board - to realign my design challenge statement such that it might imagine suggestions that I could make to further facilitate the long-term vision at Frank Hobbs Elementary that Natalie has already embarked upon, knowing what I know about the needs of the school.
In the meantime, I've given the Linoit a facelift and some elaborations. Learning to import my own graphics was the best salve or overcoming the typography barrier with this tool. As with all projects like this, the learning happens along the way, even when you fail in one iteration to arrive at a conclusive solution. This will spur further iteration into context-appropriate design ideas for the space.
Find the updated Linoit Board here: http://linoit.com/users/19clm8/canvases/CONT%20996%20-%20Building%20the%20Plan
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