HydroSpheres:Co-Design for Landscape Decision-Making

艺术和人文研究在社区参与水环境中的作用最近受到了关注，但很少探索跨学科艺术和人文研究的潜力，以询问决策过程本身，了解其中行为者的不同观点，并使共同创造未来景观及其有效管理的共同愿景。HydroSpheres网络旨在通过与景观决策者探索使用跨学科的共同设计方法来解构决策过程本身，并开发新的模型来增强决策过程和我们在英国管理景观的方式来解决这个问题。我们专注于我们的项目合作伙伴谢菲尔德湖区景观合作伙伴提出的案例研究，这是一项为期四年（2019-2022）的遗产彩票基金计划，位于南约克郡谢菲尔德西北部的上顿河流域。我们将谢菲尔德湖区定义为边缘景观，夹在山顶国家公园和M1高速公路的城市工业走廊之间。它也是一个水文景观，其历史和当代的作用是为工业和后工业城市储存和供应水，以及其在保护下游人口免受未来气候变化洪水的潜在作用。景观管理的方式是由决策者和利益攸关方之间复杂的互动网络决定的（有些是可见的，有些是隐性的，有些则完全未被探索）。认识到特定景观的各种冲突，对抗和不同价值观对于理解HydroSpheres网络所处理的边缘化水文景观的日常决策经验至关重要。乔治·蒙比奥（George Monbiot）最近认为，需要一种全新的参与式方法来解决社会环境问题，这种方法依赖于不同利益相关者社区的不同政治能量，但这些利益相关者社区在一个地方或一个景观中有着共同的归属感。其他人也同样认为，"参与的形式采取“对抗[...]构成人类社会的"出发点，而不是哈伯马斯寻求共识[自上而下的决策]“（罗斯等人，2017年）。HydroSpheres网络以一种新的基于共同设计的“激进水文学”的可能性为出发点，这种可能性突出了不同决策者-利益相关者社区中人类对景观的反应冲突问题。这是在日益不确定的生态、经济和政治前景中理解和转变景观整体管理决策过程的先决条件。为此，该网络汇集了来自文学、创意写作、设计、性能和地球科学的研究人员，以及来自谢菲尔德莱克兰景观合作伙伴关系的第三部门、政府和企业决策者-利益相关者。参与者将共同探索自己对景观决策的先入之见;设想捕捉景观价值的不同理解的新方法;并大胆地陈述新的决策标准和过程，庆祝不同的，也许是相互冲突的理想，而不是务实的妥协。该网络将举办一系列研究人员-利益攸关方研讨会，探讨边缘水文景观决策的分布式性质、不断变化的动态和遗产。通过使用共同设计方法（设计小说、讲故事、情景规划、表演），该网络将寻求建立一个变革性的议程，以便在未来的景观决策中将人类与量化相结合。

The role of arts and humanities research in engaging communities with the water environment has received recent attention but there has been little exploration of the potential of interdisciplinary arts and humanities research for interrogating the decision-making process itself, understanding the varied perspectives of the actors within it, and enabling the co-creation of shared visions for future landscapes and their effective management. The HydroSpheres network aims to address this by exploring with landscape decision-makers the use of interdisciplinary co-design methods to deconstruct the decision-making process itself and develop new models that enhance both decision-making processes and the ways in which we manage landscapes in the UK. We focus on a case study presented by our project partners the Sheffield Lakelands Landscape Partnership, a four-year (2019-2022) Heritage Lottery Fund programme in the Upper Don river catchment to the north-west of Sheffield, South Yorkshire. We define the Sheffield Lakelands as a marginal landscape, caught between the Peak National Park and the urban-industrial corridor of the M1 motorway. It is also a hydrological landscape, defined by its historic and contemporary roles in the storage and supply of water for the industrial and post-industrial city, and by its potential role in protecting populations downstream against flooding under future climate change. The way in which landscapes are managed is governed by a complex web of interactions among decision-makers and stakeholders (some visible, some tacit, others entirely unexplored). A recognition of the various conflicts, antagonisms and diverse values attached to particular landscapes is central to understanding the everyday decision-making experience in the marginalised hydrological landscapes addressed by the HydroSpheres network. George Monbiot recently argued that a radical new participatory approach to socio-environmental concerns is needed, which thrives on divergent political energies of different stakeholder communities who nevertheless share a sense of belonging within a locality - or a landscape. Others have similarly argued 'for forms of participation that take 'the antagonism [...] constitutive of human societies' as their point of departure rather than the Habermasian consensus-seeking [of top-down decision-making]' (Roth et al., 2017). The HydroSpheres network takes as its starting point the possibility of a new co-design-based 'radical hydrology' that foregrounds issues of conflicted human responses to landscape among the diverse community of decision-maker-stakeholders. This is a prerequisite for understanding and transforming decision-making processes for the holistic management of landscapes in increasingly uncertain ecological, economic and political futures.To this end, the network brings together researchers from literature, creative writing, design, performance, and geoscience, with third-sector, governmental, and corporate decision-maker-stakeholders from the Sheffield Lakeland Landscape Partnership. Participants will collectively explore their own preconceptions about landscape decision-making; envision new ways of capturing different understandings of landscape value; and boldly state new decision-making criteria and processes that celebrate diverse, perhaps conflicting ideals rather than pragmatic compromise. The network will host a series of researcher-stakeholder workshops exploring the distributed nature, changing dynamics, and legacies of decision-making in marginal hydrological landscapes. Using co-design methods (design fictions, storytelling, scenario planning, performance) the network will seek to establish a transformative agenda for the integration of the human with the quantitative in future landscape decision-making.