Random Musings:

Bob Horn Podcast At The VizThink Blog

The VizThink blog has a great podcast with Bob Horn that addresses Wicked Problems and Visual Thinking. Fundamental themes include the integration of thinking and visualization. Maps and murals are displayed that depict various Wicked Problems, including mental health and nuclear waste. Horn also presents Argumentation Maps for Missile Defense.

Dealing With Messy Problems

[I'm republishing this blogicle since we will run a series of blogicles on Wicked Problems, Social Messes and Scenario Planning.]

The 2005 International Conference on Intelligence Analysis included a paper on visual approaches to analyzing social messes by long-time friend and associate Bob Horn entitled Connecting the Smudges: How Analytic Info-Murals May Be of Help In Dealing With Social Messes. I highly recommend this paper.
 

I'll have some comments in another posting, but here's the abstract: