Developing a novel approach to participatory technology assessment through science fiction in the case of climate geoengineering

在气候地球工程的案例中，通过科幻小说开发一种参与式技术评估的新方法

• 批准号: 2747171
• 金额: --
• 依托单位: University of East Anglia
• 依托单位国家: 英国
• 项目类别: Studentship
• 财政年份: 2022
• 资助国家: 英国
• 起止时间: 2022 至 无数据
• 项目状态: 未结题
• 来源: https://gtr.ukri.org/projects?ref=studentship-2747171
• 关键词: Developing; novel; approach; participatory; technology

This PhD project aims to develop a new approach to participatory technology assessment through science fiction in the case of climate geoengineering.Prospective technologies such as climate geoengineering - i.e. 'large scale interventions in the Earth's climate system' including carbon removal and solar radiation management - pose multiple un-intended implications to the environment and society. Work in the interdisciplinary field of Science and Technologies Studies (STS) has continuously stressed the need to advance further in attending to the social futures that come forward with climate geoengineering technologies via incorporating alternative, creative, and artistic imagination of these new scientific advances in assessment practice. However, existing attempts to engage publics and wider society in participatory technology assessment processes have mainly been formal invited exercises of participation facilitated by experts and framed within the scientific imagination of climate geoengineering. This project seeks to open up and diversify technology assessment practice by bringing together work on participatory technology assessment and sociotechnical imaginaries with climate geoengineering science fiction for the first time. It will do this via a systematic mapping of diverse instances of climate geoengineering science fiction and public engagements with them occurring in the UK since 2006 (when the term 'geoengineering' was formalised in scientific literature); analysis of the imagined geoengineered futures evident within these science fiction climate geoengineering engagements; and the development of a participation experiment through which it will test and evaluate a new science fiction-based approach to participatory technology assessment. These methods will be used in turn to answer the following research questions:1) What is the nature of diverse forms of public engagement with science fiction on climate geoengineering occurring in the UK?2) What kinds of sociotechnical futures are being imagined in these public engagements with climate geoengineering science fiction?3) How can these science fiction-based visions and public engagements be used to open up participatory technology assessments of climate geoengineering?Being a focal point for participatory technology assessments in the UK, climate geoengineering is projected to play a major role in mitigating climate change following the recent COP26. This PhD therefore offers empirical, theoretical, and methodological contributions with regard to the way climate geoengineering technologies are being developed, via articulating the importance of artistic forms of public engagement in future-making and the production of new insights on the social dimensions of climate geoengineered futures. Additionally, through greater accountability of diverse public views on climate geoengineering in science fiction, this project will bring forward new concerns and possibilities regarding climate geoengineering that might not have yet formed, but which will be significant to academic and policy initiatives such as the UKERC Public Engagement Observatory, and the UK's Greenhouse Gas Removal demonstration programme.

这个博士项目的目标是在气候地球工程的情况下，通过科幻小说开发一种新的参与式技术评估方法。前瞻性技术，如气候地球工程，即“对地球气候系统的大规模干预”——包括碳去除和太阳辐射管理——对环境和社会造成了多种意想不到的影响。科学技术研究（STS）跨学科领域的工作不断强调，需要进一步推进气候地球工程技术带来的社会未来，将这些新的科学进展的替代、创造性和艺术想象纳入评估实践。然而，目前让公众和更广泛的社会参与参与技术评估过程的尝试主要是由专家促成的正式邀请参与活动，并在气候地球工程的科学想象范围内进行。该项目旨在通过首次将参与式技术评估和社会技术想象与气候地球工程科幻小说结合起来，开拓和多样化技术评估实践。它将通过系统地绘制气候地球工程科幻小说的各种实例以及自2006年以来在英国发生的公众参与（“地球工程”一词在科学文献中正式确立）来做到这一点；在这些科幻气候地球工程项目中，对想象中的地球工程未来进行分析；开发一个参与性实验，通过这个实验，它将测试和评估一种新的基于科幻小说的参与性技术评估方法。这些方法将依次用于回答以下研究问题：1)在英国发生的气候地球工程科幻小说中，公众参与的各种形式的本质是什么？2)在这些公众参与的气候地球工程科幻小说中，人们想象了什么样的社会技术未来？3)这些基于科幻小说的愿景和公众参与如何被用于开放气候地球工程的参与式技术评估？作为英国参与式技术评估的焦点，气候地球工程预计将在最近的COP26之后在减缓气候变化方面发挥重要作用。因此，通过阐明公众参与未来的艺术形式的重要性，以及对气候地球工程未来的社会维度产生新的见解，该博士学位为气候地球工程技术的发展方式提供了经验、理论和方法上的贡献。此外，通过对科幻小说中气候地球工程的不同公众观点进行更大的问责，该项目将提出关于气候地球工程的新关注和可能性，这些新关注和可能性可能尚未形成，但对学术和政策倡议具有重要意义，例如UKERC公众参与观察站和英国的温室气体清除示范计划。