1. The Pattern Problem Google Firestarters, September 2017 John V Willshire / @willsh
2. SMITHERY
3. Strategic Design bridges disciplines and departments, roles and responsibilities. It is concerned with the factors around a thing, not just the thing itself.
4. 2011
5. Metamechanics & Behaviour
6. IED Innovation & Future Thinking Barcelona, 17th-29th July 2017 summer course
7. let's start with this
8. Jean Tinguely 1925-1991
9. If you stare long enough, you see how it works http://www.vernissage.tv
10. If you stare long enough, you see how it works
11. What are the underlying mechanics?
12. Mechanics: What happens to things when things happen to them?
13. Movement Maps Loops Layers Metamechanics
14. Movement Maps Loops Layers Metamechanics
15. Lets go back to September 2011
16. What can planning learn from design thinking?
17. Companies were comfortable and welcoming to Design Thinking because it was packaged as a process. Bruce Nussbaum, Design Thinking is a Failed Experiment, 2011
18. We dont need another process
19. BACK TO THE PRESENT
20. Laseaus Funnel
21. Double Diamond, British Design Council
22. time
23. Linear processes are built for comfort
24. The roadmap is complicit dishonesty
25. manoeuvrability > speed
26. manoeuvrability > speed ?
27. OODA Loops Observe Orient Decide Act
28. OBSERVE DECIDE ACTORIENT outside world implicit guidance & control REPEAT
29. OBSERVE DECIDE ACTORIENT outside world implicit guidance & control New information about changing environment Form a hypothesis Test it REPEAT
30. OBSERVE DECIDE ACTORIENT outside world implicit guidance & control How do you orient yourself?
31. Orient To align yourself with relation to surroundings, circumstances, and facts
32. New information Analysis & synthesis Previous experience Cultural traditions SOURCE: JOHN BOYD
33. New information Analysis & synthesis Previous experience Cultural traditions SOURCE: JOHN BOYD PRESENT} PATTERNS}
34. 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
35. We cant get caught waiting for things to happen again
36. So how do you break patterns?
37. Bruce Lee The highest technique is to have no technique
38. Jeet Kune Do
39. 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
40. Charlie Munger Eighty or ninety important models will carry about 90% of the freight in making you a worldlywise person.
41. Loops help (re)make our models in response to reality
42. Movement Maps Loops Layers Metamechanics
43. If loops are the behaviour, layers are the environment
44. but this year
45. 1994 1995 1996 1997 1998 1999
46. Stewart Brand The quick processes provide originality and challenge, while the slow provide continuity and restraint
47. SLOW FAST FAST SLOW
48. THE GEARBOX
49. THE GEARBOX
50. SLOWFAST PEOPLE
51. 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
52. SLOWFAST SPACE
53. SLOWFAST SPACE GRAFFITI CHALKING FLYPOSTING STREET ART STICKERS ADVERTISING PUBLIC NOTICE BOARDS SHOP SIGNS STREET SIGNS COUNCIL NOTICES TRAFFIC DIVERSIONS FOUNTAINS MOSAICS PUBLIC AMENITIES MURALS SCULPTURES STREET FURNITURE
54. SLOWFAST PEOPLE SLOWFAST SPACE
55. - Stewart Brand All durable, dynamic systems have this sort of structure; its what makes them dynamic and robust
56. dynam ic and robust
57. What happens here?
58. What happens when a gear jumps?
59. small, nimble groups of people vs. slow, regulated, built-up space
60. instant changes in the space vs. large groups of people with shared understanding
61. a baby-step to virtual reality New York Times
62. I PROMISE YOU, THIS IS RESEARCH
63. Physically agnostic
64. Temporally agnostic
65. Visualising cultural deserts
66. @willsh What is here? pic: Aiko Graywolfe
67. Is the Pokmon really here?
68. If it isnt over here
69. And isnt over here
70. It must be here
71. Pokemon Go mob, July 20th, San Francisco Photo: NYT TEMPORARY SPATIAL SHOCKS
72. @willsh
73. Pic: Jean-Louis Zimmermann
74. It makes it harder to live here
75. virtual layer
76. Gamers Pokmon Public parks Fashion fans Ltd editions Shopping malls Patients NHS Doctors Surgeries Self-driving cars Cheap fuel Village petrol station Violent mobs Suppression Polling stations
77. All environments now change faster than our processes can allow for dynam ic and robust we cant aord to get stuck in patterns
78. How do we design tools that break patterns? An example becomes a lesson A lesson becomes a method A method becomes a practice A practice becomes a doctrine A doctrine becomes death
79. The blacksmith makes his own tools Daniel Dennett
80. THE OBLIQUISCOPE
81. THE OBLIQUISCOPE Dont look at what youre looking at
82. WHO WHAT Culture, Individuals, Groups What are they part of? How do they communicate? What beliefs do they share? Matter, Space, Objects What is it made of? How is it accessed? What does it depend on?
83. SLO W ER FASTER WHO WHAT Culture, Individuals, Groups What are they part of? How do they communicate? What beliefs do they share? Matter, Space, Objects What is it made of? How is it accessed? What does it depend on? What happens in ve years time? What have the last 24 hours been like? In the long run, how is this sustainable? Step by step, how does this work?
84. SLO W ER FASTER WHO WHAT Sketch the momentary interaction Write the 5th anniversary press release Map the supply chain Evaluate long-term sustainability Analyse population trends by location Sort through user complaints Empathy mapping Prototype new supporting service
85. SLO W ER FASTER WHO WHAT using LEGO bricks for a news organisation that doesnt exist yet using metaphorical territorial features as if you are a UN working group as if this is a long dead civilisation at the turning point as a card game using LEGO minigs as if you are a parasitic start-up
86. SLO W ER FASTER WHO WHAT The Obliquiscope
87. WHO WHAT WHO WHAT WHO WHAT
88. The fox is the master of adaptability
89. Domains Resources Interactions
90. SLOWFAST PEOPLE SLOWFAST SPACE If loops are the behaviour, layers are the environment
91. people space actions, interactions, conversations objects, environments, systems
92. people space MATERIALISM: all things, including mental things and consciousness, are results of material interactions. IDEALISM: reality as we know it is fundamentally mental, mentally constructed, or otherwise immaterial actions, interactions, conversations objects, environments, systems
93. people space MATERIALISM: all things, including mental things and consciousness, are results of material interactions. IDEALISM: reality as we know it is fundamentally mental, mentally constructed, or otherwise immaterial actions, interactions, conversations objects, environments, systems Sometimes its this. Sometimes its this.
94. p s Fast Slow FastSlow
95. p s
96. Team
97. Team Qualitative
98. Team Qualitative Quantitative
99. p Qualitative QuantitativeTeam
100. Sketch
101. Sketch Scaold
102. Sketch Scaold Structure
103. Scaold Structure Sketch s
104. p s
105. p s Improve? Share?
106. p s
107. Time is an output, not an input p s
108. If loops are the behaviour, layers are the environment
109. OODA Loops Observe Orient Decide Act
110. p s 1. OBSERVE 2. ORIENT 3. DECIDE 4. ACT 2 3 4 1
111. p s Team Qualitative Quantitative Sketch Scaffold Structure
112. Structurally, its intuitive
113. p s Its also a fractal
114. P S
115. The best way to learn is to play
116. Describe Five Pivotal Moments
117. p s
118. (FIVE MORE SLIDES TILL BEER) SO, TO CONCLUDE
119. Make your own tools to break 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
120. Tools which naturally reinvent themselves WHO WHAT WHO WHAT WHO WHAT
121. p s Tools which change behaviour, not simply repeat it
122. Bruce Lee Set patterns, incapable of adaptability, of pliability, oer only a better cage. Truth is outside of all patterns
123. Thank you John V Willshire john@smithery.com @willsh smithery.com artefactshop.com