While we were designing the Dynamic Lab I mentioned the idea of swapping out whole table-tops to preserve projects and their full spatial arrangements. Well, now we can! Er, well, we always could have.
Now that I've got 3 parallel remote collaborations going on this became a near-necessity, as the overhead of swapping out the Sheffield project on Wednesday for the Douglas project on Thursday (forgetting spatial arrangements, losing pieces, etc.) was starting to become a big pain!
So now I can just pop some sphere-magnets on the pages and place the whole project on the wall until the next session.
Everything being on a whiteboard makes for very easy annotation and supporting materials inclusion! You can slide pages around really easily even with the magnets on, so you don't need to take all the magnets off every time you return a project to the table for editing — it actually feels quite nice, giving spatial relations a bit more "weight".
These also will seamlessly become very nice posters once I have some secondary dynamic walls available.
These are the whiteboards I'm using — $40, which seems pretty reasonable for a fully-programmable whiteboard!
(Previous work in this area of course includes scrapbook pages, our OS boards, and the sweet full-size whiteboards and posters we made during the Realtalk 2020 design sessions)