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OverviewThe relationship between ignorance and surprise and a conceptual framework for dealing with the unexpected, as seen in ecological design projects. The relationship between ignorance and surprise and a conceptual framework for dealing with the unexpected, as seen in ecological design projects. Ignorance and surprise belong together- surprises can make people aware of their own ignorance. And yet, perhaps paradoxically, a surprising event in scientific research-one that defies prediction or risk assessment-is often a window to new and unexpected knowledge. In this book, Matthias Gross examines the relationship between ignorance and surprise, proposing a conceptual framework for handling the unexpected and offering case studies of ecological design that demonstrate the advantages of allowing for surprises and including ignorance in the design and negotiation processes. Gross draws on classical and contemporary sociological accounts of ignorance and surprise in science and ecology and integrates these with the idea of experiment in society. He develops a notion of how unexpected occurrences can be incorporated into a model of scientific and technological development that includes the experimental handling of surprises. Gross discusses different projects in ecological design, including Chicago's restoration of the shoreline of Lake Michigan and Germany's revitalization of brownfields near Leipzig. These cases show how ignorance and surprise can successfully play out in ecological design projects, and how the acknowledgment of the unknown can become a part of decision making. The appropriation of surprises can lead to robust design strategies. Ecological design, Gross argues, is neither a linear process of master planning nor a process of trial and error but a carefully coordinated process of dealing with unexpected turns by means of experimental practice. Full Product DetailsAuthor: Matthias GrossPublisher: MIT Press Ltd Imprint: MIT Press Dimensions: Width: 15.20cm , Height: 0.10cm , Length: 22.90cm Weight: 0.454kg ISBN: 9780262543989ISBN 10: 0262543982 Pages: 256 Publication Date: 03 August 2021 Audience: General/trade , General Format: Paperback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: Manufactured on demand  We will order this item for you from a manufactured on demand supplier. Table of ContentsList of Figures and Tables ix Acknowledgments xi 1 Introduction: Brave the Unknown 1 Landscapes, Precaution, and Experiment 2 Objectives 6 Part I Concepts 2 Experiments and Surprises: Classical and Contemporary Perspectives 13 Knowledge Societies and the Inevitability of Surprises 14 The Transdisciplinarity of Ecological Restoration 19 New Modes of Experimental Knowledge Production 25 Public Experiments: Producing Surprise and (Occasional) Delight 29 Toward an Empirically Grounded Typology of Surprises 34 New Nature, New Surprises: Return of an Extinct Carnivore 44 3 Knowledge Production and the Recurrence of Ignorance 49 Knowledge in a Sea of Ignorance 50 Nescience, Ignorance, and Nonknowledge 53 Studying the Other Side of Knowledge 59 Dynamics of the Unknown 67 More Questions than Answers: The Case of Malaria Control 71 Toward the Experimental Integration of Ignorance and Surprise 75 Part II Practice 4 Ecological Restoration and Experimental Learning 83 Ecology in Society: The Shifting Boundaries of Ecological Restoration 84 New Land: Shaping the Chicago Shoreline 91 viii Contents Public Participation and Controversies over Real Nature 95 Surprises Appropriated: Native Birds, Nonnative Bushes, and the Arrival of Baby Dunes 99 Maintaining Integrity in the Face of Surprises 106 Aligning Research and Heterogeneous Social Goals 109 Robust Restoration Strategies through Recursive Practice 114 5 Postindustrial Landscapes as Laboratories of Change 121 Europe ' s Largest Landscape Construction Site 122 The Design of a Lake District: New Nature in Postmining Landscapes 128 Anticipated Acidifi cation and Surprising Heavy Metals 134 Fleeing Forward: Fast Flooding as Acting in the Face of Nonknowledge 140 Trust and Nonknowledge: Research in the Context of Its Application 143 Further into the Unknown: Rising Water, Shrinking Population 149 The Challenge of Keeping Surprises Surprising 155 Part III Outlook 6 Welcome Surprises and New Edifi ces of Knowledge 165 Modernity and the Unanticipated Consequences of Progress 166 Research as Application: Toward an Experimental Knowledge Society 168 Perspective: Surprises as Opportunity, Nonknowledge as a Working Base 178 Notes 183 References 197 Index 229ReviewsGross' book is an excellent contribution to the analytical terrain of uncertainty in studies of science-society relations and will bode well for scholars interested in expanded societal membership in the production of knowledge.--Metascience-- [A]n excellent historiography of social science philosophies of learning. --International Social Science Review-- What kinds of science will help us navigate the Anthropocene? Matthias Gross's book takes an important step toward answering that question. --Science as Culture-- A nicely focused approach to joining theory and practice for shaping the environment for human use. --Building Research & Information-- Offers an important postnormal model of a science that counters the absolute pronouncements and rhetoric of a traditional science that fears ignorance and surprise, but that at the same time preserves the best parts of the scientific enterprise...Highly recommended. --Choice-- Author InformationMatthias Gross is Senior Researcher in the Department of Urban and Environmental Sociology at Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research-UFZ. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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