Creative Technology Almanac

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Built using Obsidian and Quartz

The ‘Almanac’ is an internal, living document within LAB @ Rockwell that looks to the future and supplements the team’s internal R&D effort. Eventually, as the Almanac grows, it hopefully presents an opportunity to

  1. Be an evergreen resource for the team to build and use
  2. Collate and form connections across multiple projects and verticals
  3. Begin to visualise trends in new media/technology and chase creative curiosities within the LAB
  4. Quickly inform publishing/public-facing efforts

Almanac for the Future

Can building the Almanac help us better predict Emergent Technologies on the innovation triggers and slope of enlightenment?

Forms for the Almanac:
  1. Wikis
  2. Digital garden
  3. Notebooks
  4. Live case studies
  5. Coffee table book
  6. Evergreen notes
  7. Manual

Almanac as a Digital Garden

The digital garden as a metaphor for space “Garden moves away from time-bound streams into conceptual knowledge space; [presents] web as a topology/space” 1

“Creative Tech at Rockwell Group specifically applies technology to solving creative problems in space. While our work extends from being fully digital to fully physical, the constant across both mediums is that our work intersects with and extends space.” 2

Digital gardens in corporations:
  1. Gitlab handbook GitLab, a web-based DevOps lifecycle tool, maintains a comprehensive and open company handbook that serves as a digital garden.
  2. Basecamp handbook - a project management and team collaboration software company uses a digital garden maintained by multiple employees.

Suggested Start

Creative Tech Process AV Systems Design Practices

Scope:

  1. Public facing vs internal document - internal document, with scope to use it as a resource to make future documents to share in the firm
  2. Timeline - documentation of 2023 & 2024

uncertain

  1. Challenges of maintaining a digital garden maintained by multiple people - Almanac Best Practices
  2. Figuring out a way of reducing redundancy and duplicates - how can this document supplement the current workflow of using Presentation and Miro_Board
  3. How does the Almanac go from being resource gathering towards trend prediction
  4. Share/collaborate with multiple people - Obsidian site
  5. Best way to place and link images/iframes
  6. What should the upkeep and maintenance be?

Footnotes

  1. https://maggieappleton.com/garden-history ↩

  2. Creative Tech Almanac Workshop I ↩

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