Do you remember Wicked Problems? In 1992, they staged a big return in the design field. It is Richard Buchanan who made Wicked Problems come back on the scene.
He seemed to connect the theories of Rittel and Simon with the design practice of Ezio Manzini. In 1992, he published “Wicked Problems in Design Thinking”.
In this book, he showed how we can try to solve these nearly impossible Wicked Problems with a new approach, which is the approach of Design Thinking.
In this book, Richard also describes Design Thinking more deeply by showing the history of the field. For example, he makes the practice date back to the Renaissance.
Going further
This article is part of the book "A Tiny History of Service Design, " a tiny two-hour read that goes through the historical events that created what Service Design is today.