SIG Space presents an IATUL webinar on Libraries and Play

📘 Dr Danielle Wyatt and Dr Dale Leorke, co-authors of The Library as Playground: How Games and Play are Reshaping Public Culture (Rowman & Littlefield, 2024)

🔍 Reflections from Space SIG members on institutional perspectives and practices around library spaces

📅 Wednesday, 13 August 2025
🕑 2.00pm CEST / 8.00am EDT / 10.00pm AEST

🎤 Presentation followed by Q&A
📽️ This event will be recorded.

is a cultural researcher whose work sits at the intersection of art, urbanism, and public culture. She has written on a diverse range of topics including about public libraries, arts and cultural precincts, climate art, creative industries policies, and settler colonial placemaking. Her book, The City of Emergent Experiences (co-edited with Nikos Papastergiadis and Isabel Lu) will be published later this year by Surpllus Press. Other research has been published in the journals Space and Culture, New Media and Society, City, Culture and Society, and the International Journal of Cultural Policy. 

(they/he) is a research fellow at the Centre for the Sciences of Place and Memory at the University of Stirling, Scotland. Their research examines the intersections and entanglements between games, technologies, beings, places, and environments. They have published five books, including Location-based Gaming (2018), Public Libraries in the Smart City (2018), and The Library as Playground (2022). For more, visit www.dleorke.net.