The Ecosystem of Wicked Problems – ECOSYSTEMATIC
A wicked problem is one where there are a plethora of ways to work towards the vision with multiple parties, people, systems, processes, and interactions that may impact or be impacted by the solution.
Exploring the problem space: a guide to building the right solution
clients and decision makers with conflicting values, and where the ramifications in the whole system are thoroughly confusing."8 In other words, wicked problems are ill-defined and unique in their causes, character, and solution.
Roger L. Martin • The Design of Business
Because of the nature of the ‘wicked’ challenges now faced by societies worldwide—and almost all urban challenges are wicked—there is no state of perfect understanding.
Patrick Tanguay • Conscientious Urban Technology
in mapping the historical evolution of a wicked problem, we must identify the events, beliefs, attitudes, innovations and norms within the landscape, regime and niche levels, but we must also learn to understand the complex systems dynamics at work within the whole.
Historical Evolution of Wicked Problems – Transition Design Seminar CMU
The roots of many wicked problems are connected to relations of conflict and power imbalances among stakeholder groups. These complex stakeholder relations are also barriers to societal/organizational transitions
Social Relations – Transition Design Seminar CMU
- The need to create “ecologies of synergistic interventions” (solutions) that are connected to each other and the long-term vision as a strategy for transitioning entire societies toward a desirable, long-term futures.
- The need to think and work for long horizons of time. Resolving wicked problems and transitioning entire societies toward sustainabl
Course Introduction – Transition Design Seminar CMU
The biggest and most-discussed problems of our era — the current pandemic, climate change, political and ideological polarization, racial and income inequality, global supply chains, among others — can only be understood and engaged with as systems of interrelated phenomena and actions.
Medium • The Ecosystem Hypothesis
We are increasingly facing what planners call “wicked problems”—problems that are “difficult or impossible to solve because of incomplete, contradictory, and changing requirements that are often difficult to recognize.”