RSA Design – Future Workplace Meeting Notes
By Stephen,
week 2 17th February 2014
Introduction
This idea envisions a future workplace in which both geographic location and physical impairment are no longer seen as barriers to effective, collaborative work.
Aim
The aim is to illustrate how the combined use of new or emerging devices could be used to generate a virtual office environment in any space.
The project integrates the use of a new type of Virtual Reality Head Mounted Display in conjunction with wearable sensor technology to immerse the user in a computer-generated environment. The ‘kit’ is envisioned to be one that is compact, functional and portable.
Furthermore this environment can be accessed and adapted by multiple users, allowing the potential for presentation and collaboration by geographically disparate groups in the same virtual space.
Ideas to keep in mind
We need to research not just the way in which the technology is used, but also the cultural, sociological, and economic benefit of our idea.
As discussed in the first RSA video there are 4 different types of worker in the modern office environment: The Anchor, The Connector, The Gatherer, The Navigator.
How might this be different in 2030?
How do we see this going from where it is now to what we envision, is there an path we could illustrate?
The 4 A3 Documents to be submitted
The brief asks for:
“4 x A3 PDFs (portrait or landscape), describing your proposal, your insights and research, the benefits you believe it will create, and possibilities of implementation and scalability”
So our project headings for each A3 document should be:
1. Proposal - this will give a brief definition of our project idea. It also includes an illustration of the technologies being used and an explanation of how it works.
2. Insights & Research - this will include current research thinking (which Milka has already done some work on). It might also explain what are the current issues in the modern workplace.
3. Benefits of our idea - This sheet will try to illustrate and describe how our idea might benefit people in the workplace.
4. Implementation & Scalability - This final sheet will show how our idea might be able to be integrated into a future environment. It might also explain the possibility of lots of people being able to connect together in a virtual environment. Finally it might mention the fact that our idea can already be developed using cutting edge first generation hardware, which could evolve in the future.
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(NOTE: We can change these if our work doesn’t fit with this criteria)
Possible areas to investigate
Milka
The work you have covered so far is a really good basis. You now need to organise your work in to different areas and try to define what might be different in the future compared to your current data. Use the document headings as a basis
Memunah
Draft some initial templates for the A3 Documents listed above.
Visual Communication - How do we illustrate our idea clearly given the submission constraints?
How have past RSA Design Award Winners illustrated their idea, is there a common theme?
How much information should we include?
Stephen
Investigate the business case for this project. Look at financials and statistics.
Draft some 3D model examples (including data?)
What kind of physical space might this ‘future office’ occupy?