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Wicked Solutions: SDGs, Research Design and the “Unfinishedness” of Sustainability

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dc.creator Light, Ann
dc.creator Kasper, Eric
dc.creator Hielscher, Sabine
dc.date 2021-08-02T10:12:52Z
dc.date 2021-08-02T10:12:52Z
dc.date 2020-07-04
dc.date.accessioned 2022-05-26T08:48:03Z
dc.date.available 2022-05-26T08:48:03Z
dc.identifier Light, A., Kasper, E., & Hielscher, S. (2020, July 4). Wicked Solutions: SDGs, Research Design and the “Unfinishedness” of Sustainability, (Version 2) SocArXiv Papers, DOI: 10.31235/osf.io/m948c
dc.identifier https://opendocs.ids.ac.uk/opendocs/handle/20.500.12413/16779
dc.identifier https://osf.io/preprints/socarxiv/m948c/
dc.identifier Cities
dc.identifier 10.31235/osf.io/m948c
dc.identifier.uri http://localhost:8080/xmlui/handle/CUHPOERS/198597
dc.description preprint / pre-print
dc.description The appearance of the UN’s Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) marked the first time a global body has attempted to manage the planet’s future in its entirety, linking together urgent, overlapping and contradictory existential threats. The goals newly treated the world as an interlinked system, where relations are as important as components, and problems and solutions evolve together, acknowledging a more entangled trajectory for sustainable Development work. Through this lens, it becomes clear that all answers to how we live are provisional and shifting. Thus, we need more than new knowledge, products or policies from our research; we need to consider how different disciplinary efforts combine, take on life of their own, and nurture new configurations in a dynamic system. This paper invites us to rethink the making of viable futures, in the context of this reframed Development discourse, using design theory and approaches to complexity. It seeks to contribute by proposing HCI tools to manage the new uncertainties this introduces into the design of experts’ research work. Using ideas of “unfinishedness” and the concept of “wicked solutions”, it addresses the incommensurability and contingency to be found in knowledge-making and problem-solving, with an agenda of socio-ecological renewal.
dc.language en
dc.publisher SocArXiv Papers
dc.rights http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
dc.rights The authors
dc.subject Millennium Development Goals
dc.title Wicked Solutions: SDGs, Research Design and the “Unfinishedness” of Sustainability


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