WickedProblems

Problems for CollectiveIntelligence

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• you don't understand the problem until you've got a solution

• there's no stopping rule

• no absolute right / wrong solutions. Just better and worse. (FuzzyLogic)

• every wicked problem is unique and novel

• every solution to a wicked problem is "one-shot". (No generalizations possible)

• wicked problems have no given alternative solutions

Counter

AgainstWickedProblems

Contrast :

• PatternLanguage. Aren't patterns a way of documenting some sort of generalized wisdom about the solutions to complex problems? Particularly as wicked problems comes from thinking about urban-planning problems.

• SystemsThinking

See also :

• CollectiveIntelligence

• HyperMediaDiscourse