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“Wicked problems,” are those that elude a singular answer. Though issues like climate change fit this description, many opportunities for innovative responses to such challenges exist. In this seminar, students will engage a range of discourse--from the dystopian fiction of George Saunders and Black Mirror to case studies and the United Nations' goals for sustainable development—to identify and explore "problems worth solving" as testing grounds for novel social, technological, and cultural innovations. Students will then use a variety of tools and techniques introduced in the seminar to analyze their chosen problems and related case studies to imagine what comes next.