Why OST helps us solve wicked problems

[Chris Corrigan]

I haven't read the book Artur, just seen that paper...but if anyone comes 
across it I'd be interested in what they reccommend as well.

Cheers,

Chris

On 5/4/05, Artur Silva <arturfsilva at yahoo.com> wrote:
> 
>  *Chris Corrigan <chris.corrigan at gmail.com>* wrote:
> 
> (...) 
> 
> So via elearning post <http://www.elearningpost.com/archives/007124.asp>, 
> today I came across this paper (
> http://www.touchstone.com/tr/wp/wicked.html) that looks at how wicked 
> problems are solved by non-linear processes (...)
> 
>  Thanks, for the link to the paper and for the comments, Chris.
>  Reading the paper, I have noticed that what they call "wicked problems" 
> is similar to what D. Schon called "messies". (Schon, "The Reflective 
> Practitionner - How Professionals Think in Action"). And in Schon's examples 
> of reflecting-in-action and reflecting-on-action there is a similar patern 
> of going from understanding the problem to solutions and back again to 
> "reframe the problem" that is similar to the non linar way that is proposed 
> in the paper for wicked problems. Also Schon's "conversation with the 
> situation" is quite often cooperative. 
>  What is interesting in your post is the suggestion that OST is a 
> colective proved solution to wicked problems. I agree. But, as the paper is 
> only a chapter of a book, I would like to understand better what solution 
> they propose for wicked problems to understand how OST relates (or not) with 
> that. I suppose I will have to find the book... Have you read it?
>  Regards
>  Artur
>    
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