1. The Louisville Project MIT Design Lab, Americans for Libraries Council, and the Louisville Free Public Library July 18, 2006

2. The Louisville Project Site 2: Southwest LOUISVILLE CHARRETTE Louisville Free Public Library + MIT Design Laboratory + Americans for Libraries Council

3. A Place You Want to Be People come to the library for a reason We want them also to come for no reason at all The design should foster curiosity and discovery LOUISVILLE CHARRETTE Louisville Free Public Library + MIT Design Laboratory + Americans for Libraries Council

4. Southwest Regional Library LOUISVILLE CHARETTE Louisville Free Public Library + MIT Design Laboratory + American’s for Libraries CouncilLOUISVILLE CHARRETTE Louisville Free Public Library + MIT Design Laboratory + Americans for Libraries Council

5. Site Challenges Heavily trafficked primary arterial Surrounded by dense residential Adjacent lo developing commercial LOUISVILLE CHARRETTE Louisville Free Public Library + MIT Design Laboratory + Americans for Libraries Council

6. Community Spaces Accessible, flexible communal work and meeting space Ability to move seamlessly between solitary activity (reading or at the computer) and group connection. Our library allows and encourages that kind of transition. LOUISVILLE CHARRETTE Louisville Free Public Library + MIT Design Laboratory + Americans for Libraries Council

34. Charrette Participants 1.Bill Mitchell – director, MIT Design Lab; director, MIT Smart Cities Project 2.Ryan Chin – MIT Research Associate in Media Arts and Design 3.Marcel Botha – MIT Research Associate in Architecture 4.Edward “Tad” Hirsch – MIT Research Associate in the Smart Cities Project 5.Kenfield Griffith – MIT Research Associate in Architecture 6.William Schickling – President and CEO, Polaris Library Systems 7.Toni Garvey – director, Phoenix Public Library 8.Cindy Read –exec. director of the KY Institute for Family Literacy; immediate past chair of the KY community college system board 9.Ed Kruger – architect at Bravura Inc. in Louisville 10.Matthew Barzun –Founder and CEO of Brickpath.com; former chief strategy officer for CNET Networks 11.Graham Cooke – LFPL assistant director; former co-owner of a chain of independent bookstores 12.Craig Buthod – LFPL director LOUISVILLE CHARRETTE Louisville Free Public Library + MIT Design Laboratory + Americans for Libraries Council

35. Charrette Staff LOUISVILLE CHARRETTE Louisville Free Public Library + MIT Design Laboratory + Americans for Libraries Council Susan Imholz, ALC Bruce Astrein, ALC Caitlin Maloney, ALC Lee Burchfield, LFPL Laura Hardaway, University of Kentucky School of Architecture