The Ecosystem of Wicked Problems – ECOSYSTEMATIC
This happens because the unintended consequences (in the reinforcing loop) snowball slowly over a long period of time, often unnoticed at first but continuing to accumulate (like rust) as the wrong solution is repeatedly applied.
Art Kleiner • The Fifth Discipline Fieldbook: Strategies for Building a Learning Organization
Or so E. F. Schumacher would have us believe. The author of Small is Beautiful and A Guide for the Perplexed distinguished between “convergent problems” (where attempted solutions gradually converge on one answer) and more super-wickedesque “divergent problems” (where different answers appear to increasingly contradict each other the more they are
... See moreAndrew Boyd • I Want a Better Catastrophe: Navigating the Climate Crisis with Grief, Hope, and Gallows Humor
- 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.”
Tim O'Reilly • Wtf?
tend to fragment agencies by problem, rather like mailbox pigeonholes, but the long emergency will require managing complex systems over long time periods.
The Worldwatch Institute • State of the World 2013: Is Sustainability Still Possible?
An interdependent world is a world of deep systemic connectivity, in which all risks affect each other through a web of complex interactions. In such conditions, the assertion that an economic risk will be confined to the economic sphere or that an environmental risk won’t have repercussions on risks of a different nature (economic, geopolitical an
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