Revisiting Rittel and Webber’s Dilemmas: Designerly Thinking Against the Background of New Societal Distrust

In this article, we posit designerly thinking as a family of design approaches that some believe are able to effectively respond to wicked problems. We will scrutinize this premise by revisiting Horst Rittel and Melvin Webber’s 1973 article in which the notion of wicked problems was originally intro...

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Main Authors: Pieter E. Vermaas, Udo Pesch
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Elsevier 2020-01-01
Series:She Ji: The Journal of Design, Economics and Innovation
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Online Access:http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2405872620300691