Mariehällsskolan ligger i den nya stadsdelen Annedal på gränsen mellan Sundbyberg och Stockholm och är en grundskola för 750 elever från förskoleklass till årskurs 5. Skolbyggnaden inrymmer även ett kulturcentrum som kan hyras ut när det inte används. Byggnadens dubbelprogram med ett kulturcentrum som riktar sig utåt mot stadsrummet, kombinerat med en skolavdelning som vänder sig mot en lugn park, gör att byggnaden får två sidor med olika karaktär. Mellan hemvisterna och kulturcentrum finns skolans administration och personalavdelning. Avdelningen för elevvård är också kopplad till denna del men är placerad närmast hemvisterna för att vara mer lättillgänglig för skolbarnen. Länken mellan hemvisterna och kulturcentrum utgörs av en korridor av tegelpelare längs med en glasfasad mot parken, där naturen bjuds in. På översta våningen finns en terrass som kan användas för utomhusundervisning som exempelvis odling, läsning, eller som plats för rekreation. / The school in Mariehäll is situated in the Stockholm suburban area Annedal. It is an elementary school for 750 students aged 6-11 years. The school building also contains a cultural center that is available to the public. The cultural center is placed towards a public square and the school part is situated towards a quiet park, which creates a building with two different facade expressions. The administration is placed between the cultural center and the classrooms. The staff room and the school nurse unit are connected to this part of the building, next to the classrooms to be available to the students. The link between the school part and the cultural center is constituted by a corridor of brick columns along a glass facade towards the park. On the top floor there is a terrace that can be used for education outside, for example cultivation studies, reading or as a place for recreation.

The purpose of this Bachelor thesis is to investigate which rolesthe mobile library has to its users in a small community in Sweden.To reach this purpose I have focused on the following two researchquestions:• Which are the different functions, social, cultural, educational orinformation-based, that the mobile library offers its users andwhich of these are used in reality?• What purposes are there for the mobile library and how it is usedby it’s visitors?To answer these questions I have interviewed four users of amobile library and I have held e-mail interviews with librarians incharge of a mobile library as well as the head of the department ofculture and peoples health in the community. As a base for myanalyse I have also used a pilot study which I performed earlier inthe spring of 2011.My theoretical framework is based on the model of the publiclibrary’s different roles made by Marianne Andersson and DorteSkot-Hansen.The result of this study show’s that a mobile library isn’t verydifferent from a permanently located public library. The fourdifferent functions all exist, wholly or partly, in the mobile library. / Program: Bibliotekarie

The aim of this master’s study is to examine the function of the public library in the local community at present. I have searched for the answers to the following questions: Which position has the public library in the local cultural policy? What characterizes each library and which are the priorities? What is the local profile of the public library? What cooperation partners does the public library have and what do they mean to the library? Does the public library intensify the local community in any way? To answer this, I have made three qualitative case studies. Interviews and collection of documents were carried out in three different communities. The people interviewed are library chiefs and local politicians. As a theoretic base I have used an analysis model, originally developed by Marianne Andersson and Dorte Skot-Hansen. The analysis model is designed to categorize the functions of the public library in the local community as: a cultural centre, a knowledge centre, an information centre, and a social centre. The analytical findings illustrate that all three libraries examined are clearly visible in the local cultural policy. The findings also reveal that all three libraries possess all of the functions of the analysis model, although some differences were found. One of the libraries is more distinct in the function as a knowledge centre, another is more distinct in the function as a cultural centre, and a third is more distinct in the function as a social centre. The libraries examined have several cooperation partners in the local community. The reasons why cooperation is important is partly economical and partly that it makes the library more visible in the local community. / Uppsatsnivå: D

The aim of this master’s thesis is to examine the roles ofthree different public libraries in three differentcommunities. In order to get some answers about the roles ofthe public libraries I have used the following questions: Howis the local cultural policy formulated? How is the locallibrary structured? What or which profiles has the publiclibraries in the three communities?I have made three qualitative case-studies in three differentcommunities. These three communities are somewhatlocated in the same area in order to identify any cooperationbetween them. The communities differ in sizes so that thereis a possibility to identify if the roles of the public librarydiffer according to population.I have used an analysis model created by MarianneAndersson and Dorte Skot-Hansen as my theoretical base.The model categorises the function of the public library infour different, yet overlapping centres; as a cultural centre,as a knowledge centre, as an information centre and as asocial centre.The analytical findings show that each of the three differentpublic libraries can be identified with all four functions ofthe theoretical model, however in different degrees. The firstlibrary is more distinct as a cultural centre, the second libraryis most distinct as a knowledge centre and the third is mostdistinct as a social centre. The libraries have got differentnumbers of cooperative partners. Cooperation is viewed asimportant by all three libraries, mostly by the economicaland inspirational contributions they provide. Cooperationalso makes the libraries more visible in their respective localcommunities. / Program: Bibliotekarie

Kultur är en stor del av samhället och går ofta förbi obemärkt. Kulturorganisationer som Bonniers Konsthall och Nacka Kulturcentrum, Dieselverkstaden, arbetar aktivt med kulturverksamhet för barn och unga för att uppmärksamma kulturens betydelse. Syftet med denna jämförande studie är att behandla hur barn- och ungdomsverksamheten påverkas av de respektive organisationernas finansiering och handlande ur både ett privat och offentligt perspektiv. I den kvalitativa jämförelsen och analysen studeras material från media, hemsidor, årsredovisningar och intervjuer. Uppsatsen kommer att utreda på vilket sätt omgivningen innebär osäkerheter, möjligheter samt beroenden för de båda kulturorganisationerna. Resultaten av undersökningen visar att organisationernas finansiering påverkar deras verksamhet för barn och unga, men också även hur de agerar och organiserar sig internt.

This essay is about the mobile library in three communities of a district. Interviews with the help of research questions are used as a data collection method to gather information on how the mobile library works, which possibilities for evolution it has to better satisfy their users’ needs and which place the mobile library occupies in its context to the main library and its branches. As a theoretical background the work of Andersson & Skot-Hansen is used to illuminate the mobile library’s different usages, determined by four centres, the centre of culture, the centre of knowledge, the centre of information and the centre of social interaction. Two of three communities will be buying new bookmobiles for the mobile library in 2018 and with the new equipment the mobile library will be able to offer additional services. The mobile library is no longer only an instrument to deliver books and other media, it grows to a multiroom with multiple opportunities, able to host cultural and educational events while offering digital services, information and a meeting place. Faced with closing down library branches the mobile library is either part of the centralisation process of the main library or part of the decentralisation process of the main library filling its own roll in the work towards its users. As part of the decentralisation process the mobile library is considered a library branch, not stationary but mobile, one of its many advantages in the work to deliver its services directly to users anywhere.

The Go Down Arts Centre is a proposal for a new building to an existing organisation in Nairobi, Kenya. The proposal relates to the scale of the city by making a statement on a future urban path, and by welcoming the city in to the building. The proposal houses both activities affiliated to Go Down, such as studios and rehersal rooms, as well as opportunities for the visitor to meet and interact with the culture produced at Go Down, both in formal and informal settings. The building is closed to its surroundings, apart from a grand entrance towards the urban path. There, the city passes through the building to an inner courtyard, where the communication to all the rooms and activities takes place. From the exterior courtyard, the buildning acts as an halftone screen towards a darker, more specific and more temperated room, where it meets the outer wall. / The Go Down Arts Centre är ett förslag på en ny byggnad till en existerande verksamhet i Nairobi, Kenya. Förslaget relaterar till stadens skala, genom att utmärka sig på ett framtida urbant stråk och bjuda in staden i byggnaden. I byggnaden finns plats både för verksamheter knutna till Go Down, i form av ateljéer, studios, replokaler, osv. och för besökaren att möta och integrera med kulturen, både i formella och informella sammanhang. Själva byggnaden är sluten utåt, med en stor öppning vid stråket, där staden passerar in i byggnaden till en innergård där kommunikationerna till alla rum och verksamheter återfinns. Från den exteriöra innergården går byggnaden genom ett raster mot ett allt slutnare, mörkare och mer tempererat rum tills den möter den tunga ytterväggen.

“A culture center should be visually welcoming as well as attract a diverse range of visitors with different backgrounds.” This was the client’s request for a new cultural center in Nairobi. The location is in the heart of Nairobi’s industrial area, near several existing buildings that are already in use by the culture organization known as Go Down. I have chosen to keep most of the existing buildings and to use my new building as a complement for the desired program. I believe that it will pay off in the end to renovate the area in installments.  My purpose in this project has been to design a building with natural environments and flexibility. I have been trying to think from a sustainable perspective, using almost all recycled materials and taking advantage of the location’s natural benefits. Thanks to the climate I have been able to place a lot of the facilities “semi outside” as well as create a lot of areas in the shade. / "Ett kulturhus ska vara inbjudande rent visuelltsamt dra till sig en bred publik med olikabakgrund." Det är beställarens önskan för ettsäte för kultur i Nairobi. Tomten för det nyakulturhuset ligger i Nairobis industriområdeoch har redan befintliga lokaler där kulturaktiviteterbedrivs. Jag har valt att behållastörre delar av de befintliga byggnaderna dåjag anser att det i längden lönar sig attuppgradera tomtens byggnader i omgångar. I mitt projekt har jag försökt skapa en byggnadmed flexibilitet och naturliga miljöer. Jag harockså försökt tänka från ett hållbart perspektivdå jag använder mig av återvunna materialoch utnyttjar mig av platsens fördelar. Tackvare det behagliga klimatet har jag förlagt såmycket som möjligt av programmet ”utomhus” ochförsökt skapa platser med skugga.

Väven grundar sig i nyfikenheten för vad som sker i konstnärernas ateljéer och utforskandet i hur ett rum som ofta upplevs som slutet kan vävas samman med aktiviteten i ett hus för folket.  Projektet är placerat söder om Ösmo i Nynäshamns kommun och innefattar ett konsthantverkscentrum där konstnärer får utrymme att producera, leva och lära i samverkan med publika rum och husets besökare. I programmet ryms  konstnärsbostäder för de 12 residerade konstnärerna och deras familjer, verkstäder inom keramik, textil, glas, metall, trä samt två skrivarstugor. Verkstäderna är ständigt närvarande i gestaltningen och har utformats för att låta besökare ta del av konstnärernas arbete, både visuellt och aktivt genom utbildningslokaler, galleri och butik. Syftet med projektet Väven är därmed att undersöka hur ett konsthantverkscentrum som både är utformat för utövarna och besökarna kan se ut samt hur konsten via projekt som dessa kan nå nya grupper och skapa mervärde till en plats. / The project aims to investigate how a house for culture, with a focus on arts and crafts, can be combined and integrated with a house for the people, and to explore how art and culture can reach new groups in smaller cities through projects like this.

The aim of this bachelor's thesis is to examine the roles of the mobile library in Västerås municipality in Sweden. The purpose is to gain understanding about the mobile library and its place in the local public library operation. The theoretical framework is the model for analysis of the local public library profile, produced by Marianne Andersson and Dorte Skot-Hansen. Qualitative interviews are put in comparison with the four overlapping categories included in said model: the role as a cultural centre, knowledge centre, information centre and social centre. The results show that each of the four roles was recognized to some degree, though the roles as cultural centre and social centre were somewhat prominent. The respondents mainly highlighted the lack of information technology and the limited physical space as the major holdbacks for development opportunities in all categories. The findings are discussed along with their relations to national and local policy documents.