Historical Evolution of Wicked Problems – Transition Design Seminar CMU
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Historical Evolution of Wicked Problems – Transition Design Seminar CMU
ADAPTIVE CHALLENGES ARE difficult because their solutions require people to change their ways. Unlike known or routine problem solving for which past ways of thinking, relating, and operating are sufficient for achieving good outcomes, adaptive work demands three very tough, human tasks: figuring out what to conserve from past practices, figuring o
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Designing interventions within a large, Transition Design project will require transdisciplinary teams working over long periods of time in a co-design process with stakeholders themselves. How can continuity be maintained over long periods of time when actors are continually changing?
Designing Systems Interventions – Transition Design Seminar CMU
The Transition Design Approach Emphasizes:
- The need to frame problems within radically large, spatio-temporal contexts that include the past (how the problem evolved over long periods of time), present (how the problem manifests at different levels of scale) and future (visions of the long-term future in which the problem has been resolved).
- The n
Course Introduction – Transition Design Seminar CMU
Complexity theory and ‘big history’, particularly notions of pulsating global networks of exchange, allow us to grasp changes through three logics: of capital, of political systems, and of culture, by which I refer to the formation of subjectivity and social actions.