INTRODUCTION
Over the course of six months a number of social designers and organisations have worked together to develop new perspectives for wicked problems. All the stages in the collaborative processes were tracked and discussed in public meetings. These projects were part of the practical research programme SOCIALDESIGNFORWICKEDPROBLEMS (SDFWP). SDFWP was inspired by a rapidly-growing movement. We can see a trend of designers and artists developing into social designers, using their knowledge and skills to have impact on social problems. At the same time organisations are tending to look for new ways to realise effective strategies to deal with these same problems. This report deals with the three projects that were carried out within SDFWP. We show how each of the problems was approached from a new perspective and how this affected everybody involved. Above all, we deal with the term ‘social design’ on a meta level, based on the question: What needs to be done so that this promising discipline can reach maturity? In this report, we have tried to give expression to the wealth of our research as much as possible. We have also had to make decisions concerning 7