working out how the internet works - metamechanics @ #iamw16 - annotated
Post on 21-Apr-2017
7.273 Views
Preview:
TRANSCRIPT
MetamechanicsWorking out how the internet works
John V Willshire@willshSmithery, London
#IAMW16Barcelona
culture
Thin
gs
People
prototype
strategydesign
Jean Tinguely
Swiss Artist & Scupltor
1925-1991
http://www.vernissage.tv
Most famous for his kinetic sculptures…
if you stare long enough, you see how they work
Like a lot of the exhibits here in the Cosmocaixa museum
Stare at it, see how
it works
Humans love spotting patterns in repeat behaviour
Mechanics
“the behavior of physical bodies when subjected to forces or displacements, and the subsequent effects of the bodies on their environment”
Wikipedia
Mechanics:
What happens to things when things happen to them
What makes the internet go round?
What patterns, what mechanics can we spot?
Let’s think Small, then big…
“an aggregation of many individual pieces of content”At home, I have Lots of packs of cards
Content: what’s on the cards
Design Fiction Kit: Near Future Laboratory
Mechanics: that they are cards
Design Fiction Kit: Near Future Laboratory
artefactshop.com
We make these
Artefact cards are high quality blank cards for working on projects
Deal
Shuffle
Order
Stack
Turn
Spread
Rearrange
card Mechanics are about movement
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
“We are currently witnessing a re-architecture of the web, away from pages and destinations, towards completely personalised experiences built on an aggregation of many individual pieces of content…”
Paul Adams, Intercom
@padday
“an aggregation of many individual pieces of content”
“an aggregation of many individual pieces of content”
The mechanics of cards allow us to design quickly using mechanics akin to the internet
Let’s zoom out…
but this year…
Two separate friends
recommended I read these
two books
1994
1995
1996
1997
1998
1999
What if these two models fit together?
FAST
SLOW SLOW
FAST
Does fast move fast, and slow move slow?
The most interesting part of the hybrid model is the gearbox
P1 P2 P3 P4 P5
S5
S4
S3
S2
S1
THE GEARBOX
slowFast
slow
Fast
P1 P2 P3 P4 P5
S5
S4
S3
S2
S1
The slow drift east
cronuts for lunch
We can see conventional relationships of fast and slow
P1 P2 P3 P4 P5
S5
S4
S3
S2
S1
Lighting displays based
on actions
But start to see how the internet allows us to create new things
P1 P2 P3 P4 P5
S5
S4
S3
S2
S1
product futures as marketing
But start to see how the internet allows us to create new things
Internet Mechanics:
continually moving, always unexpected, often unintended
http://www.vernissage.tv
“Working out how the internet works”
This isn’t really the right thing to aim at…
Stare at it, see how
it works?
Stare at it, see how
it works?
“We wanna see the patterns…”
Pattern match that, kids
And the internet
helps people keep get weirder
“In science, when human behaviour enters the equation, things go nonlinear.
That’s why Physics is easy and Sociology is hard.”
@neiltyson
Strategy is dead. design appropriately.
Strategy is dead. design appropriately.Where once a strategy would hold for years, we are now witnessing a world in which a strategy can’t even hold for the time it takes to formulate one.
Everything keeps changing.
OODA Loops
Observe Orient Decide Act
Observe Orient Decide Act
Observe Orient Decide Act
A metastrategy, a strategy of
strategies: do the most appropriate
thing for your circumstances
Design WITH the mechanics, not AGAINST them
Kareisu (empty Chair)
</happyending>
?
Jean Tinguely Study for The End of the World 2
self-destructing
machines
These are all products of the internet.
For all the good the randomness brings, other stuff is made possible too…
self-destructing
machine?what if the internet is a
Thanking y’allJohn V Willshire@willsh
#IAMW16Barcelona
smithery.coartefactshop.com
top related