On Making an Emotional Map of Our Library
Recently a group of us- Tibetan Librarians from across India- wanted to explore how the library looks and feels to our students, using art as the medium. The idea was to make collaborative images that represented their emotions towards the school library space, and to reading there.
Presented below are some pictures of the emotional maps from different groups of students who came together to do this activity, in response to the same common instructions.
This is a detail from the map of the junior school library drawn by class VI and V students of TCV (Tibetan Children's Village) Bylakuppe, where I am the Junior school librarian. I gave them the instructions and observed through the activity that the children's minds were full of imagination.
This piece was created b...