Tag: Wicked problems

  • Designing thinking and change in practice

    by Carolina Faria & Irina Tikanvaara The teaching sessions with Daniela Marzavan, where we had two thought-provoking days and a hands-on workshop, provided a widening experience of the practical use of design thinking to solve a given task. The goal was to find the solutions for practical cases using design thinking, its methods and tools…

  • A Design Thinking Crash Test

    Erika Bäck & Sabine Maselkowski Two days of Design Thinking ‘crash test’ (read: course) behind. All we think is we need to pass, like a car tested for the safety standards. Days went by at high-speed, challenging our ways of thinking and working, let’s start… Design? Design Thinking?  To get answers we looked both past…

  • Designers as political changemakers

    What are the commonly stated wicked problems and what can we do about them? A common denominator for the so-called wicked problems is that they all have complex connections to multiple sectors of human societies and they cannot be solved easily, if at all. Wicked problem can also be a problem whose complexity means that…

  • Wicked, wicked problems

    New study in the field of service design! Mari Suoheimo’s doctoral examination was held on 18th of September in the University of Lapland. The opponent was professor Mikko Koria from Loughborough University London and thesis supervisor was professor Kaarina Määttä. First Suoheimo introduced us to complex and simple problems and made some examples of them. A…