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But as a rule design begins with a problem pointed out by some societal agent, which engineers are then invited to unravel. Many such issues, nevertheless, are ill-defined or wicked issues, which means that it’s not at all clear what the issue is exactly and what an answer to the issue would consist in. The ‘problem’ is a scenario that people—not necessarily the people ‘in’ the situation—find unsatisfactory, however typically without having the power to specify a state of affairs that they discover extra satisfactory in different phrases than as one by which the issue has been solved. In explicit it’s not apparent that a solution to the issue would consist in some artifact, or some artifactual system or process, being made available or put in. Engineering departments everywhere in the world promote that engineering is drawback solving, and engineers easily appear confident that they are finest qualified to unravel …