limited-time-only opportunity to significantly update and reform the system and the habits of mind that are its cause and effect.

mechanical element that usually crops up in any story.”

goal-formulation, problem-definition and equity issues meet.”

Essentially, strategic design, the focus of this essay, is focused on the systemic redesign of cultures of decision-making at the individual and institutional levels, and particularly as applied to what we can think of as the primary problems of the 21st century

The “much larger machine” may not be malleable directly, or even capable of being understood. Yet it can still be affected.

strategic agenda,

Bruno Latour

So the particular product or content by itself is not enough; the wider context as a platform is what makes it sing, what makes it a success.

This basic idea, zooming back and forth from matter to meta, and using each scale to refine the other, is core to strategic design.