Strategien er død - lenge leve Metastrategien - John Willshire

METASTRATEGY
John V Willshire, Smithery, London

Webdagene, Oslo

21st October 2016
@willsh
Movement, Layers and Loops
STRATEGY IS DEAD, LONG LIVE

Who
is this
for?
Gustavo Frazao/Shutterstock

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Buildings don’t pivot.
Or do they…?

METASTRATEGY
a strategy
of strategies

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“the philosopher’s
favourite tactic…”
DANIEL DENNETT
‘Going Meta’

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Daniel Dennett
“Anything you can do,
I can do meta”

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metaThe monkey wrench
of abstract thinking

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INPUTS
1) Think of a
word, put ‘meta’
in front of it
2) Google it
OUTPUTS

Who’s doing
the designing?
Whose future
is it anyway?

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THE MECHANICS
OF MECHANICS
http://jaysimons.deviantart.com/

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INPUTS
1) Think of a
word, put ‘meta’
in front of it
2) Google it
OUTPUTS
1) You think
diﬀerently
2) You ﬁnd who’s
been here before

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Metadesign
Metamechanics
Metastrategy?

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movement…
loops…
layers…

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ADVARSEL
Denne presentasjonen inneholder
(litt) publikumsdeltakelse.

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Jean Tinguely
1925-1991

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http://www.vernissage.tv
If you stare long enough,
you see how it works

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If you stare long enough,
you see how it works

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We love repeating patterns

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What are the internet’s
repeating patterns?

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Mechanics
“the behavior of physical bodies when
subjected to forces or displacements, and
the subsequent effects of the bodies on
their environment”
Wikipedia

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Mechanics:
What happens to things
when things happen to them?

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A uniﬁed theory of the web,
David Weinberger,
2002
“Small pieces,
loosely joined”

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“Once it’s published,
no one can change it
except the original
publisher”
DAVID WEINBERGER
The Document

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Work in forms where
order is temporary…

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Cards are a long, deep
cultural language
Jon Seidman - https://ﬂic.kr/p/b6NEqB

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Content: what’s on the cards
Design Fiction Kit: Near Future Laboratory

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Mechanics: that they are cards
Design Fiction Kit: Near Future Laboratory

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=9dIQOrVhM5E - Prof. John Wood, TED, on Synergies
“The Creative Quartet” - Prof. John Wood
1
2
3 45 6

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“[cards are] an aggregation of many
individual pieces of content”
@padday

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“an aggregation of many individual pieces of content”“[cards are] an aggregation of many
individual pieces of content”
@padday

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Making the
metaphor
physical…
artefactshop.com

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Seymour Papert
1928-2016

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bOf4EMN6-XA

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“The turtle is a
transitional object,
between the body,
the self, and an
abstract concept”
Seymour Papert

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Work in
materials
where
MOVEMENT
is part of their
makeup
Deal
Shuﬄe
Order
Stack
Turn
Spread
Rearrange

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MANOEUVRABILITY > SPEED

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OODA Loops
Observe
Orient
Decide
Act

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OBSERVE DECIDE ACTORIENT
outside world
implicit guidance & control
REPEAT

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outside world
New information
about changing
environment
Form a
hypothesis
Test it…
REPEAT

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outside world
Create
perspectives
that match
your new
reality

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Create New Perspectives
New information
Analysis & synthesis
Previous experience
Cultural traditions
SOURCE: JOHN BOYD

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How do we orient?
New information
Analysis & synthesis
Previous experience
Cultural traditions
SOURCE: JOHN BOYD
PRESENT}
PATTERNS}

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The pattern problem
An example becomes a lesson
A lesson becomes a method
A method becomes a practice
A practice becomes a doctrine
A doctrine becomes death

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Break your patterns…

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…by giving yourself lots
of alternatives

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“Anything is easy if
you can assimilate
it to your collection
of models”
Seymour Papert

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“80 or 90 important models
will carry about 90% of the
freight in making you a
worldly‑wise person.”
Charlie Munger, Berkshire Hathaway

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BRUCE LEE
“it is just a name used,
a boat to get one across,
and once across it is to be discarded
and not to be carried on one's back”

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Good LOOPS allow you to
learn without becoming
trapped in the pattern

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“Buildings don’t pivot.”

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Stewart Brand
“The quick processes provide
originality and challenge, while the
slow provide continuity and restraint”

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FAST
FAST
originality
and
challenge

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continuity
and
restraint
SLOW
SLOW

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SLOWFAST PEOPLE
FRIENDS
FAMILY
KIDS TEAM
FUNDRAISERS
PARTIES
PARENT HELPERS
COMMUNITY PROGRAMMES
LOCAL TEAMS
HERITAGE
OFFICIAL LEAGUES
GRASSROOTS
MATCH OFFICIALS
GOVERNING BODIES
TOURNAMENT
INTERNATIONAL TEAMS
EUROPEAN COMPETITION
SUPPORTERS CLUBS
TELEVISION COVERAGE

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SLOWFAST SPACE
GRAFFITI
CHALKING
FLYPOSTING
STREET ART
PARTIES
ADVERTISING
PUBLIC NOTICE BOARDS
SHOP SIGNS
STREET SIGNS
COUNCIL NOTICES
TRAFFIC DIVERSIONS
FOUNTAINS
MOSAICS
PUBLIC AMENITIES
MURALS
SCULPTURES
SUPPLY CHAINS
CLEANING

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SLOWFAST
PEOPLE
SLOWFAST
SPACE

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Stewart Brand
“All durable, dynamic systems have
this sort of structure; it’s what
makes them dynamic and robust”

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Continuity and
Restraint
Originality and
Challenge
dynam
ic
and
robust

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Continuity and
Restraint
Originality and
Challenge
?

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What
happens
when the
gears slip
or jump?

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originality and
challenge of people
vs.
continuity and
restraint of space

Photograph by Brett Gundlock, Boreal Collective

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originality and
challenge of space
vs.
continuity and
restraint of people

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What happens when
a $49 billion, 21 year-
old franchise invades
your local bar?

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I PROMISE YOU,
THIS IS RESEARCH

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Visualising
cultural
deserts

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What is
“here”?
pic: Aiko Graywolfe

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ADVARSEL
Publikumsteltakelsen skjer nå.

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IS IT REALLY ‘HERE’?

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IF IT ISN’T OVER HERE…

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AND ISN’T OVER HERE…

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SLAPP AV
Publikumsteltakelsen er nå over.

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HERE IS
WHERE THE
PROBLEMS
START…

POKEMON GO ‘MOB’, JULY 20TH, SAN FRANCISCO
PHOTO: NYT
TEMPORARY SPATIAL SHOCKS

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Pic: Jean-Louis Zimmermann

“It makes
it harder to
live here”

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Overnight,
Pokémon Go
started wearing
your city like an ill-
ﬁtting
human suit

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SLOWFAST
PEOPLE
SLOWFAST
SPACE
We have to
learn to move
diﬀerently in
the volatile
quadrants

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How do we
navigate
this world?

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A UNIVERSAL AGILITY MAP

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TEAM QUALITATIVE QUANTITATIVE0
PEOPLE
SPACE

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Quantitative: new ways to ﬁnd/make

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Picture of Erika saying
something brilliant and
profound about Qualitative

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TEAM QUALITATIVE QUANTITATIVE
SKETCHSCAFFOLDSTRUCTURE
0
PEOPLE
SPACE

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Sketch: what tools do you use?

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Structure: where does it sit?

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Each space is self-
contained
0 TEAM QUALITATIVE QUANTITATIVE

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0
SHARE?
OR
IMPROVE

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0
Diﬀerent
projects,
diﬀerent
journeys

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0
Time is
an output,
not an
input

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0
How is it
useful?
PEOPLE
SPACE

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R&D
INNOVATION
MANUFACTURING MARKETING
SALES
CUSTOMER

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Information - what’s important to you?

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User stories:
where does it matter?

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Assembly: What might ﬁx it?

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For one client, qualitative exploration

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Across many, quantitative steering

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0
Generate
systems with
movement,
loops and layers
PEOPLE
SPACE

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All systems pivot,
if you build in the ﬂexibility.

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Stare at it,
see how it
works?

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“We wanna see the patterns…”

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WELCOME TO THE
NEW NORMAL

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Strategy is dead.
Design appropriately.

THANK YOU
JOHN@SMITHERY.CO
@WILLSH
SMITHERY.CO
ARTEFACTSHOP.COM
(IS IT BEER TIME NOW?)

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