The Container Library was an amazing project that I really enjoyed working on. The City Library of Malmö was looking to attract more people during the summer, where usually everyone wants to sit outside and enjoy the good weather. They were also looking to attract a younger public. A new skatepark had just opened in town: Stapelbäddsparken. They found this place an excellent arena to try to create an outdoor alternative library to attract the kids that wanted to rest from skating as well as the parents that were there siting waiting for their kids.
So the library of Malmö and the organization of Stapelbäddsparken knew they wanted to create this library in a 12ft old container and they invited me to lead the project creating the whole concept as well as produce it. I literally got an empty container and I had to design everything from opening a door, to electric installation, decoration and program. I work closely with thee library team to decide which books and magazines people was gonna have access to. They were mainly inspired by street and skateboarding culture. We had a whole program of activities for the summer and we even employed teenagers through the summer-work program that the city had, to help us out.
We continued with the projects 3 more summers, we renewed the concept every year, one year we called it Cultural container and it was more focused on kids creating content, we facilitated cameras and computers so they could create their own skate videos, we had video games, all kinds of workshops related with creating, manga, origami, animation and indie aerobics. The concept was later brought to Denmark as well.
Some articles related to the container:
Container lastad av kultur - Skånska Dagbladet
Rosa containern ska locka unga att läsa - Sveriges Radio
The Evaluation of the project you can find it here: