Through a design challenge for the Western Cape Premier’s innovation unit in partnership with the University of Cape Town’s Hasso Plattner d-school Afrika and the Western Cape Library Service, the project explored design opportunities to attract the youth user back into the under-utilised public library system in Cape Town, South Africa.

Three teams of student-designers conducted user research to develop prototype solutions for the challenge:

How Might We… redesign the multi-use libraries experience for young adults in under-resourced communities in a world where they see libraries as a facility for the youth in school and they feel excluded from resources that libraries offer and the communities they foster?