terry, mike and others,
we discussed the difference between ill-structured problems in mathematics
and rittel's wicked problems before.
the difference is that the former is defined in terms of the difficulty of
finding a rational procedures, the latter involves the everyday logic and
politics of human stakeholders. although rittel was a mathematician and had
a natural inclination towards this language, he came to the wickedness of
problems by experiencing problems in city planning and architecture, which
involve a lot of stakeholders, not a single rational mind/decision maker.
personally, i find the whole paradigm of problem solving, which stems from
rational conceptions such as simons', quite limited. i prefer designers to
talk about visions of possible futures and to find compelling arguments for
enrolling stakeholders to realize that vision (see the semantic turn).
klaus
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Subject: Re: well-structured and ill-structured activity in designing
Hi Terry, Mike and others
1951 looks likely although 1973 Rittel & Weber is still definitely the most
cited in design.
Dasgupta, Subrata. 1994. Understanding design: Artificial intelligence as an
explanatory paradigm. Sadhana 19 (1):5-21.
claims that 'the case of ill-structured design problems that are not
amenable for formulation .... invented by Wilkes and first presented in a
short paper (Wilkes 1951)'
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