Fifty years after the wicked-problems conception: its practical and theoretical impacts on planning and design. [PDF]
Socioecol Pract Res, 2022 The year 2023 marks the 50 anniversary of “Dilemmas in a general theory of planning” (Rittel and Webber 1973), an original and influential article in which two erstwhile faculty members at the University of California at Berkeley, USA— the design science
Chan JKH, Xiang WN.
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Transdisciplinary training: what does it take to address today’s “wicked problems”? [PDF]
, 2021 There is a growing need to address today’s “wicked problems” seen in issues such as social justice, global climate crisis and endemic health concerns. Wicked problems are those for which there is no single, clear or optimal solution and thus are amenable
Euson Yeung +3 more
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Managing pandemics as super wicked problems: lessons from, and for, COVID-19 and the climate crisis. [PDF]
Policy Sci, 2021 COVID-19 has caused 100s of millions of infections and millions of deaths worldwide, overwhelming health and economic capacities in many countries and at multiple scales.
Auld G, Bernstein S, Cashore B, Levin K.
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Wicked Problems in Pharmacy Education. [PDF]
Am J Pharm Educ, 2022 Wicked problems are unstructured, cross-cutting, and relentless. While problem-solving is an expected outcome of pharmacy education programs, are we, as pharmacy educators, acknowledging the “wicked” problems we have in the Academy?
Smith KJ.
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The challenges of providing certainty in the face of wicked problems: Analysing the UK government's handling of the COVID-19 pandemic. [PDF]
J Public Aff, 2021 Positioning Covid‐19 as a wicked problem we analyse the extent that the UK government adhered to the guidelines for dealing with such problems and the extent to which the management of the pandemic exacerbated the crisis.
Lilleker DG, Stoeckle T.
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The Technopolitics of Wicked Problems: Reconstructing Democracy in an Age of Complexity [PDF]
Critical Review, 2022 “Complexity” is ubiquitous in contemporary political commentary, where it is invoked to justify innovative governance programs. However, the term lacks analytic clarity.
Anke Gruendel
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EQA, 2023 The Kingdom of Saudi Arabia (KSA) has been experiencing a rapid urban growth in the recent decades with intense demand on housing. Government policies are trying to revise strategies to supply more housing units in order to meet the exerting pressure of ...
Ayad Almaimani, Khan Rahaman
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Journal of Innovation and Entrepreneurship, 2023 Organizations in a wide array of fields and disciplines are increasingly using design thinking as an innovative process to create products or services that address wicked problems in their industries.
Rahmin Bender-Salazar
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WICKED PROBLEMS AND THE DESIGN THINKING METHOD AS A TOOL TO SOLVE THESE PROBLEMS. THE CASE ALIEN PROJECT [PDF]
Eastern European Journal of Regional Studies, 2023 Today's global challenges are characterized by increasing complexity. This makes it possible to call these challenges so-called wicked problems, which are difficult to define clearly, have no single solution and require the involvement of multiple ...
Magdalena PROCZEK, Marta GARBARCZYK
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A Bibliometric Analysis of Wicked Problems: From Single Discipline to Transdisciplinarity [PDF]
Fudan Journal of the Humanities and Social Sciences, 2022 With the increase of social complexity and uncertainty, wicked problems have become the hot and difficult issues in the frontier research of public policy. The concept of wicked problems was proposed in the 1960s.
Hou X, Li R, Song Z.
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