Wicked problems revisited

Coyne, Richard

doi:10.1016/j.destud.2004.06.005

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“…Post-normal science (Sardar, 2010;Healy, 2011;Ravetz, 118 2011) and other mixed methods approaches that incorporate adaptive, participatory and 119 transdisciplinary (APT) elements have been proposed and in various cases applied to 120 wicked problems (O'Connor, 1999;Frame & Brown, 2007;Innes & Booher, 2010). For advocating methods beyond rationality (Coyne, 2005) Batie, 2008;Grootjans in Brown et al, 2010); and secondly, those favouring 146 deconstructing the problem into sub-problems, for example, the translation of complex 147 problems into more recognizable, smaller problems (Shindler & Cramer, 1999); locking the 148 down the problem definition (Conklin, 2010) 'sticking' to purposes and goals (Lazarus,8 2009) and assessing competences (Mascarenhas, 2009 Communicative Rationality' (Habermas, 1984), targets reframing the planning process in 154 the complex contexts in which wicked environmental problems arise. These authors 155 balance more abstract theorizing, for example, 'thinking differently in an age of 156 complexity' with practical application, for example 'stories from the field'.…”

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Tackling wicked environmental problems: The discourse and its influence on praxis in Scotland

Duckett

Feliciano

Martín-Ortega

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Landscape and Urban Planning

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Tackling wicked environmental problems: The discourse and its influence on praxis in Scotland

Duckett

Feliciano

Martín-Ortega

et al. 2016

Landscape and Urban Planning

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“…In the last year or so alone, the term been applied to a wide range of issues cutting across a range of policy sectors-such as housing and urban planning (Walter and Holbrook 2015), euthanasia policy (Raisio and Vartiainen 2015), prison education (Czerniawski 2016), tobacco use (Rigotti and Wallace 2015), amongst a host of others-expanding to virtually all public policy concerns (not only limited to classic social policy concerns of the welfare state or provision of social services). So many issues and features of design issues can be found to contain elements of wickedness, however, that Coyne (2005) has gone so far as to argue that ''[w]ickedness is the norm. It is tame formulations of professional analysis that stand out as a deviation (p.…”

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Appeals to evidence for the resolution of wicked problems: the origins and mechanisms of evidentiary bias

Parkhurst

2016

Policy Sci

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Wicked policy problems are often said to be characterized by their 'intractability', whereby appeals to evidence are unable to provide policy resolution. Advocates for 'Evidence Based Policy' (EBP) often lament these situations as representing the misuse of evidence for strategic ends, while critical policy studies authors counter that policy decisions are fundamentally about competing values, with the (blind) embrace of technical evidence depoliticizing political decisions. This paper aims to help resolve these conflicts and, in doing so, consider how to address this particular feature of problem wickedness. Specifically the paper delineates two forms of evidentiary bias that drive intractability, each of which is reflected by contrasting positions in the EBP debates: 'technical bias'-referring to invalid uses of evidence; and 'issue bias'-referring to how pieces of evidence direct policy agendas to particular concerns. Drawing on the fields of policy studies and cognitive psychology, the paper explores the ways in which competing interests and values manifest in these forms of bias, and shape evidence utilization through different mechanisms. The paper presents a conceptual framework reflecting on how the nature of policy problems in terms of their complexity, contestation, and polarization can help identify the potential origins and mechanisms of evidentiary bias leading to intractability in some wicked policy debates. The discussion reflects on how a better understanding about such mechanisms could inform future work to mitigate or overcome such intractability.

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“…Tal es la apreciación de Rittel & Webber, que hacia 1974, proponían Esta particularidad del diseño refiere a lo aludido por Rittel & Webber y posteriormente por Buchanan (1992), como "problemas perversos", los cuales no alcanzan una solución definitiva y siempre presentarán variables adicionales al planteamiento inicial, lo que no permite abarcarlos de una manera completa. Sin embargo, respecto a la relación con la actividad proyectual, la perversidad entraña más bien una actitud y una capacidad de respuesta a las preguntas de investigación en el diseño, que a la realización de artefactos en la práctica, es decir, no es posible abordar cuestiones de diseño en la práctica, como si se trataran de enunciados eternos, (Coyne, 2005); esto enfoca de nuevo la cuestión de la producción de conocimiento en el diseño desde otra perspectiva, desde la consideración de la investigación en diseño de manera sistémica.…”

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El método en diseño como expresión de producción de conocimiento

Toro

2016

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El método en diseño como expresión de producción de conocimiento ResumenSe analiza el papel del método en la producción de conocimiento en el ámbito del diseño. Este análisis se hace mediante la comparación, en diferentes autores, de las diversas concepciones de la actividad proyectual y las implicaciones que tiene en su práctica. El método desempeña un rol de esclarecimiento del fenómeno proyectual. Se obtiene una visión más específica, es decir, el método pasa de ser una guía racional a ser considerado una guía interpretativa dentro del proceso de diseño. Se incorpora la perspectiva hermenéutica como la más adecuada para articular el tipo de racionalidad aplicada al diseño y a la contextualización de sus resultados. The method in design as an expression of knowledge production AbstractThe role of the method in the production of knowledge in the field of design is analyzed. This analysis is done by comparing, in different authors, the various concepts of project activity and the implications in its practice. The method plays a role in clarifying the project phenomenon. A more specific view is obtained, this is to say, the method proceeds from a rational guidance to be considered an interpretive guide within the design process. The hermeneutical perspective is incorporated as the most appropriate to articulate the kind of rationality applied to the design and contextualization of its results.

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Wicked problems revisited

Cited by 290 publications

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Tackling wicked environmental problems: The discourse and its influence on praxis in Scotland

Tackling wicked environmental problems: The discourse and its influence on praxis in Scotland

Appeals to evidence for the resolution of wicked problems: the origins and mechanisms of evidentiary bias

El método en diseño como expresión de producción de conocimiento

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