HydroSpheres:Co-Design for Landscape Decision-Making

艺术和人文研究在让社区参与水环境方面的作用最近受到了关注，但很少有人探索跨学科艺术和人文研究的潜力，以质疑决策过程本身，了解决策过程中参与者的不同观点，并使共同创造未来景观及其有效管理的共同愿景成为可能。水球体网络旨在通过与景观决策者一起探索使用跨学科合作设计方法来解构决策过程本身，并开发新的模式来加强决策过程和我们管理英国景观的方式来解决这一问题。我们重点介绍了我们的项目合作伙伴谢菲尔德湖景观合作伙伴提出的一个案例研究，这是一个为期四年(2019-2022年)的遗产彩票基金计划，位于南约克郡谢菲尔德西北部的顿河上游集水区。我们将谢菲尔德湖定义为边缘景观，夹在山顶国家公园和M1高速公路的城市-工业走廊之间。它也是一种水文景观，其定义是它在工业和后工业城市储存和供应水方面的历史和当代作用，以及它在未来气候变化下保护下游人口免受洪水侵袭的潜在作用。管理景观的方式由决策者和利益攸关方之间复杂的互动网络(有些是显性的，有些是默契的，有些是完全未开发的)来管理。认识到与特定地貌有关的各种冲突、对立和不同的价值观，对于理解水圈网所涉及的边缘化水文地貌的日常决策经验至关重要。乔治·蒙比奥特最近认为，需要一种激进的新的参与式方法来解决社会环境问题，这种方法得益于不同利益攸关方社区的不同政治能量，这些社区在一个地方--或一处风景--中拥有共同的归属感。其他人也同样主张“以‘人类社会的对抗性[……]构成’为出发点的参与形式，而不是以寻求[自上而下决策]的哈伯马斯式共识为出发点”(Roth等人，2017年)。水球体网络以一种新的基于共同设计的“激进水文学”的可能性为起点，突出不同的决策者和利益相关者之间人类对景观的不同反应的问题。这是在日益不确定的生态、经济和政治未来中理解和转变景观整体管理决策过程的先决条件。为此，该网络将来自文学、创意写作、设计、性能和地学的研究人员与谢菲尔德湖景观伙伴关系的第三部门、政府和企业决策者-利益相关者聚集在一起。参与者将集体探索他们自己对景观决策的先入为主的概念；设想新的方法来捕捉对景观价值的不同理解；并大胆地提出新的决策标准和程序，赞扬不同的、可能相互冲突的理想，而不是务实的妥协。该网络将主办一系列研究人员和利益攸关方研讨会，探讨边缘水文景观的分布性质、变化的动态和决策的遗产。利用共同设计方法(设计虚构、讲故事、场景规划、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.