Wicked Problems Defined

December 13, 2018  |  Posted by: Rick Torseth  |  No Comments

In the landmark article ‘Dilemmas in a General Theory of Planning’, Horst Rittel and Melvin Webber observed that there are a set of problems that cannot be resolved with traditional analytical approaches.  They labeled such problems ‘Wicked Problems’. Wicked problems, according to Horst and Webber, have ten characteristics:   There is no definitive formulation of … [READ MORE]