LIBRARY DESIGN AS AN EDUCATIONAL RESOURCE:

A PROPOSAL FOR THE FEDERAL INSTITUTE OF EDUCATION, SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY OF RONDÔNIA – CAMPUS JARU

Abstract

This article was produced from the Master's research elaborated within the Graduate Program in School Education (PPGEEProf), Professional Master's and Doctorate’s Degree of the Federal University of Rondônia Foundation - UNIR and started from the following question: How can the participation and/or users' collaboration in the process of designing an educational and/or cultural space contribute to the full appropriation and meaning of this place? Based on this question, we sought to investigate how the architectural layout of the environment for the library can contribute to expanding aspects related to avail, satisfaction and comfort from the point of view of employees and users of the facilities in the use of space. The applied methodology was that of action research. Initially, surveys of the physical locations were carried out, as well as data collection through observation, semi-structured interviews and questionnaires and, then, the processing of these data and the correlation with the specialized bibliography. It appears that the spatial configuration of the place where the study and research activities are carried out largely affects the performance of the users, a fact verified in the very utterances of the research participants. Given the data obtained, it can be stated that the planning of the physical constitution of educational and cultural environments influences different learning factors, from those at a subjective or mechanical level, to actions or behaviors premeditated by the configuration of the place where such acts unfold, which can be positive or negative according to design and environmental factors.