While querying on my hero C. West Churchman's book "The Systems Approach" (planner and philosopher; investigated accounting, research and development management, city planning, education, mental health, space exploration, education, and peace and conflict studies. Died March 21, 2004 ) I located this site - http://www.nextd.org/index.html.The Nextd.org, which started out with Dr Jeff Conklin, Dr Min Basadur and GK VanPatter discussing if the "wicked problem" senario described by Horst Rittel & Melvin Webber in 1973 was meaningful.
Thinking in terms of wicked problems is one of my friends and iSchool cohorts favorite way to frame a problem, so it's an article I have to
read even if GK VanPatter has the nerve to have his photo for the site shot with his sunglasses on. (Oh dude we will _so_ recognize you from that picture!) VanPatten has supporters in the League of Human Design - http://www.underconsideration.com/speakup/archives/002423.htmlThe next (ha ha) article is "Nussbaum’s “Are Designers the Enemy of Design?” beginning with an author with the title 'Sir' - I can hardly wait to check it out, right after the required reading for Information Management - no dame so-n-so here, Sir Linda Lane. What fun! Maybe this group is like Next Door...
My plan is to scan in the 1968 book jacket of 'The Systems Approach' for all you reader junkies who have not had the visual pleasure of seeing the hip original (because I was not able to locate it in an image search.)
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