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Home / Sessions / Building a Personal Knowledge Garden (Day 2)

Building a Personal Knowledge Garden (Day 2)

IAC22

Cost

$200 USD

Time(s)

April 19, 2022
2:30 PM to 4:30 PM ET

April 19 2:30 to 4:30 PM   April 20 2:30 to 4:30 PM

Location

Vancouver Room

Description

Information is essential to your work. And you are overwhelmed by it. Research findings, design inspiration, project details, insightful essays, useful webinars, and so much more. All this information should make you smarter, generate insights, and amplify your creative output. And yet the result is a digital tarpit where information goes to die. 

There is an alternative: building a “second brain.” The strategy is to replace the tarpit with a structured workflow for translating information into your own ideas, externalizing them, and linking them together. A new breed of tools — Obsidian, Roam Research, Notion, and more — are designed to enable this approach to this process.

But it’s not just about tools. They share principles, perspectives, and processes for getting more from the information in your life. This is a new kind of information architecture. It’s personal. It’s emergent. It’s a bit messy. And it’s built on the premise that knowledge is constructed through a simple, intentional, and habitual conversation with information. We call this knowledge gardening. 

Join information architects Karl Fast and Jorge Arango for an engaging hands-on exploration of emerging mind-augmentation technologies and practices.

About the speakers

Jorge Arango
Jorge Arango

Jorge Arango has designed digital environments for over 25 years. He’s a co-author of “Information Architecture: for the Web and Beyond” and author of “Living in Information: Responsible Design for Digital Places” and host of The Informed Life podcast. Besides his consulting practice, Jorge is also an ​adjunct professor at the California College of the Arts (CCA) in San Francisco.

Karl Fast
Karl Fast

Karl Fast designs systems for thinking well in a world jam-packed with information. He built his first web site in 1994. Ever since he has worked in information architecture and user experience. Karl holds a PhD in information science and was previously a Professor of UX Design at Kent State University. He is co-author of “Figure It Out: Getting from Information to Understanding.”

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