The Wicked Problems Plaza (WPP) … “is a novel and structured way of facilitating dialogue between stakeholders from different backgrounds. In order to come up with creative — but nevertheless realistic — ideas, approaches to wicked problems need to address their complexity and preferably also pay attention to unintended and indirect effects. The WPP aims to get the ‘system into the room’ — that is, involve all relevant stakeholders. It creates a structured way of facilitating collaborative methods for dealing with wicked problems. The WPP aims to enable participants to address wicked problems in a systematic, but also creative, manner. Such an approach also requires a physical space in which diverse perspectives come together. The WPP is aimed at providing a safe environment in which participants are taken on a journey — from abstract problems to collaborative solutions. It is based on years of experience in research and practice in partnership formation and stakeholder engagement processes. It aims to create the preconditions for novel, creative, but also realistic, outcomes for today’s grand challenges. The theory behind the WPP combines insights from a variety of disciplines such as game and negotiation theory, political economics, urban planning, design thinking, decision-making theory, public goods theory, welfare economics, governance literature, chaos and systems theory, and stakeholder theory.”