![]() ![]() The last visit of the day literally took us up in the air to the top floor of 15 Metrotech in the Brooklyn Tech Triangle and gave a stunning perspective of why and how NYC works with urban sustainability and clean tech incubation in the LAB to become the leading state of green economy and innovation in the US.Īnalyst and Outreach officer Tone Søndergaard employed by the Confederation of Danish Industry presented the Urban Future Lab as a happy marriage of the NY City’s premiere clean and resilient tech incubator and a physical hub offering the clean tech leaders of tomorrow a lab facility to thrive- The lab also hosts a Danish state-of-the-art exhibition on green infrastructure initiatives with a particular focus on energy, sustainable urban infrastructure, water, transportation, recycling of waste and solutions for providing better air quality. Urban Future Lab – Incubation, StartUP & Sustainablity That is the kind of ethnographic and collaborative approach that is ideal for the way we want to design the Library Lab and redesign the empty library space that is left behind by the decreasing acquisition of physical books and the storage hereof. The space design at MAGNET is wonderfully mobile, dynamic and is even co-designed by students of the participating schools which makes it ideal for learning and collaboration the way students actually work on their daily basis. ![]() MAGNET works as a kind of learning commons and shared space for faculty staff and students across NYU with an interest in the intersection of culture and technology merging into nouvelle areas of digitalism.Īt MAGNET the study of social science, game design, computer science and engineering becomes a beautiful melting pot of creativity and nouvelle experimental digital design. ![]() Here we found table games on the shelves instead of books and I think I counted close to one hundred projectors spread across the 7 th floor of the building insisting on dynamic wall presentations and group work around the corridors. Our walking around in the cool study environment of MAGNET was really something different compared to yesterdays Day 1 visit at Columbia University. Maybe it’s about time to involve partnerships at the other side of Academia as well!? At least the idea of facilitating and seeding digital research projects with competent staff and some minimal funding and at the same time educate students in fellowship programs and also match-making to potential jobs in the private and public sector seems very appealing. At the moment we strive to engage liaisons for outreach to Faculty and find new ways of collaborating as tasks move more and more to web services and participation in digital projects. I think this is a very fruitful outreach model of organizing and incubating the bright digital talents of the future that also would be very useful to dig into and discuss at a both strategical and operational level in the Danish Academic Libraries. The main goal of the lab is to drive innovation and talent development of students from New York Universities with seed money for short term digital projects to foster collaboration across a range of disciplines core to the future of digital media. The NYC Media Lab was founded in 2010 as a collaboration between NYC Universities and digital media and tech industry and operates as a partnership initiative launched by the NYC Economic Development Corporation. Let’s make NYC the media Capital of the World – The NYC Media Lab Our point of contact Amy Chen, seed project manager at NYC Media Lab welcomed our group and had very surprisingly hooked us with the a Danish conncetion, Tone Søndergaard, working at the Urban Future Lab for the Confederation of Danish Industry that runs a Cleantech Hub physical base here called House of Green. That today are hot spots of entrepreneural and innovative thinking all situated closely to each other in a very campus-like hub of creativity. Our Danish Fellowship of Digital Labs group were so fortunate to get the chance to visit three labs and initiatives: This part of NYC houses the MetroTech Center which is the largest science and technology park of the United States. – Written by Library Lab Fellow Michael Svendsen – project head of The Digital Social Science Lab (#DSSLucph) at Faculty Library of Social Sciences, Copenhagen University LibraryĪs we found our ways to Downtown Brooklyn at day 2 of our NYC Lab Tour we were quite excited to pay a visit to Lab facilities outside the traditional Library Sector. ![]() New York City and The Labs – day 2: The NYC Media Lab, The MAGNET and Urban Future Lab ![]()
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