Meridian

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In the Kattegat center, a danish sealife museum, a new interactive exhibition area called the ocean in action opened in 2013. Here you can explore a realistic shark model augmented with light and projections, teaching kids and their grownups about the shark it's life and anatomy you can create virtual waves with others and kayak between icebergs.

http://www.havetshus.dk/oplevelse_og_formidling/interaktive_oplevelseszoner/havet_in_action.aspx

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The garbage jukebox awards recycling behavior with music. Wanna hear more add more cans or bottles!

http://www.thefuntheory.com/2009/11/27/garbage-jukebox 

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Cyber Stacks at Yale University's Library

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Motion Theater from Hjørring Library in Denmark. When the children move in front of the screen fairytale figures follow their movements. It's a collaborative scene - when you hold hands or hug the characters on screen interact.

http://vimeo.com/42856772 

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KLÄDOTEKET’S CLOTHING LIBRARY

  The problem: keeping in style whilst being ethically conscious.

The solution? A clothing library that allows you to borrow whatever you’re after with one affordable monthly membership fee.

http://artrebels.com/blog/kladotekets-clothing-library/

http://kladoteket.se/

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Pianostairs in China and in Odenplan, Stockholm

http://www.thefuntheory.com/piano-staircase

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Children's storage unit by OOO

http://bit.ly/rO57gy

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Cushion tree of rotation moulded cushions - Lycees Germaine Tillon

http://bit.ly/1esUgrf

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A digital installation for the 2012 1700-festival in Aarhus, where you can find out if you have what it takes to be a true eighteenth-century personage. Go past the three big mirrors, and see yourself reflected as a noble lady or lord from the 1700s. http://aarhundredetsfestival.dk/main.aspx?pagetype=6&id=452

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At the Aarhus festival 2012 you could see ebooks and audiobooks floating over the city center, when you watched it through your camera phone.

When you push the bookcover you can read and listen.

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Garaget in Malmö (Sweden). A library and a co-creation space for the local community.

https://www.facebook.com/Garaget

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TioTretton in Stockholm - a library for young people from 10-13 years.

Here you will find computers, a recording studio, sewing machines, a kitchen and people who have time to talk, chill, cook. Morning activities are reserved for schools, afternoons are open for all kids aged 10 to 13.

http://en.kulturhuset.stockholm.se/TioTretton/

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The Transformation Lab in Aarhus: A place for prototyping the library of the future

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Library 10 in Helsinki: a great example of the performative library.

This the Lunch-disco where you can stop by and dance and have lunch!

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Factory for handmade technologies - Wish Lab @Kobakant

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How Selfies Are Re-Energizing The New York Public Library

The photos look like they could have been taken at a bar, a bat mitzvah, or one of those swanky media parties with sponsored vodka. But they weren’t. These photobooth shots were snapped at the New York Public Library as part of a new social media initiative to engage more with the library’s selfie-loving patrons, and the live photostream is making our hearts melt.

“This is new ground for us,” Ken Weine, vice president of communications and marketing at the NYPL, tells Co.Exist. “An institution like us has to find ways to communicate with people in person and digitally, and what’s fun about this project is that we’re doing both at the same time.”

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Engineering Success: Students build understanding

An in-depth look a the impressive work of aviation students at the Aviation High School in Seattle.