- title
- Something Wicked This Way Comes
- subtitle0
- A Problematic Paradigm for Design in Times of Crisis
- Please use the following URL when quoting:
- https://nbn-resolving.org/urn:nbn:de:bsz:14-qucosa2-952715
- conference
- DGTF Annual Conference 2024 in Lucerne. Hochschule Luzern (HSLU), 26.04. - 27.04.2024
- original_in_proceeding0
- What could possibly go wrong?
Herausgeber: Merle Ibach, Dr. Andrea Augsten, Prof. Dr. Axel Vogelsang
Erscheinungsort: Dresden
Verlag: TUDpress
Erscheinungsjahr: 2024
Seiten: 78-87 - publication_date
- 2024
- doi
- https://doi.org/10.25368/2024.DGTF.006
- Abstract (EN)
- SOCIAL INNOVATION AND DESIGN CHALLENGES
- This paper offers a close reading of Horst Rittel’s and Melvin Webber’s often cited, yet rarely challenged or historically situated publication on wicked problems «Dilemmas in a General Theory of Planning,» published in 1973. My aim is to (1) lay out the consequences of understanding problems of social policy as wicked – a quality that evades naming actors responsible and marks problems as inevitable and unknowable and (2) historicize some of the assumptions that developed under the rubric of wickedness by examining the political, social, and cultural conditions in which wicked problems were conceived. I am invested in a denaturalization of design fixes as a predominant design response to crisis by contemplating the (unintended) consequences of adopting wickedness as a design paradigm.
- Keywords (EN)
- Wicked Problems, Design History, Problem-Solving, U.S. 70s
- Classification (DDC)
- 629
- Classification (RVK)
- ZG 9148
- Publishing house
- TUDpress, Dresden
- corporation_other
- Deutsche Gesellschaft für Designtheorie und -forschung e.V., Berlin
- Technische Universität Dresden, Dresden
- Hochschule Luzern (HSLU), Luzern
- version
- publizierte Version / Verlagsversion
- URN Qucosa
- urn:nbn:de:bsz:14-qucosa2-952715
- Qucosa date of publication
- 21.01.2025
- Document type
- in_proceeding
- Document language
- English
- licence
CC BY-NC 4.0- tableofcontents
Part 1: Men of Action Complex Systems, messy Worlds The Black Box Part 2: The concealment strategy Problems have never been wicked Design Literacy References