Research

When we first received the project, my first step was to research the importance of a calender. How many different calendars there is. When I was researching I came to this definition of a calendar:

The common theme of calendar making is the desire to organize units of time to satisfy the needs and preoccupations of society. In addition to serving practical purposes, the process of organization proves a sense, however illusory, of understanding and controlling time itself. Thus calendars serve as a link between mankind and the cosmos. It is little wonder that calendars have held a sacred status and have served as a source of social order and cultural identity. Calendars have provided the basis for planning agricultural, hunting, and migration cycles, for divination and prognostication, and for maintaining cycles or religious and civil events. Whatever their scientific sophistication, calendars must ultimately be judged as social contacts, not as scientific treatises. 

Throughout my research, I came to find different types of calendars. Such as Chinese, Islamic, Roman and more. Each culture or religion have a calendar of its own. 

In my research, I also looked up various of creatively designed calendars that inspired me and led me to my process. This is a link who a classmate shared with me. I wish you all to take a look at it if you haven't already :)