OVERVIEW This project was undertaken by a small team of researchers affiliated with the Transitio... more OVERVIEW This project was undertaken by a small team of researchers affiliated with the Transition Design Institute at Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, U.S.A. It is "work in progress" shared with a specific group as an introduction to the Transition Design approach and its emerging toolkit for addressing complex, "wicked problems," and should not be considered conclusive research. In March, 2020, as COVID-19 was emerging in the U.S., we decided to use the Transition Design approach to track and analyze the spread of and response to the pandemic in the U.S. This scope of research is intended to serve as a "sketch" to guide further qualitative research involving a variety of methods such as: stakeholder 1 and expert interviews (with experts such as epidemiolo-gists, sociologists, historians, policy makers, politicians, healthcare officials, non-profit organizations, etc.), qualitative data-gathering, sensemaking workshops with stakeholders, among others. Further research would expand upon and validate or refute the preliminary findings and analyses shown here. For this reason, we ask that the two maps comprising the research not be circulated or published in either digital or analog formats until research is completed. ABOUT THE RESEARCH Due to the quarantine/lock-down and limited timeframe, all research to date has been secondary 2 in nature, and the majority of sources for COVID-19-related information have come from mainstream news websites, magazines and special reports. Scientific white papers or journal articles were used whenever possible. The Transition Design approach is based upon three steps which, together, create a radically large problem context that includes: 1) Problem Mapping (present); 2) Problem Evolution (past); 3) Visioning (future). This research represents steps one and two.
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