{"product_id":"design-strategy-9780262546812","title":"Design Strategy","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eA new approach to addressing the contemporary world’s most difficult challenges, such as climate change and poverty.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eConflicts over “the problem” and “the solution” plague the modern world and land problem solvers in what has been called “wicked problem territory”—a social space with high levels of conflict over problems and solutions. In \u003ci\u003eDesign Strategy\u003c\/i\u003e, Nancy C. Roberts proposes design as a strategy of problem solving to close the gap between an existing state and a desired state. Utilizing this approach, designers and change agents are better able to minimize self-defeating conflicts over problems and solutions, break the logjam of opposition, and avoid the traps that lock problem solvers into a never-ending cycle of conflict.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eDesign as a field continues to grow and evolve, but \u003ci\u003eDesign Strategy\u003c\/i\u003e focuses on three levels of design where “wicked problems” tend to lurk—strategic design (of","brand":"MIT Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49400703615319,"sku":"9780262546812","price":999.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/design-strategy-9780262546812","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}