{"product_id":"ignorance-and-surprise-isbn-9780262543989","title":"Ignorance and Surprise","description":"\u003cb\u003eThe relationship between ignorance and surprise and a conceptual framework for dealing with the unexpected, as seen in ecological design projects.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIgnorance 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.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003eGross 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.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003eEcological 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.List of Figures and Tables ix\u003cbr\u003eAcknowledgments xi\u003cbr\u003e1 Introduction: Brave the Unknown 1\u003cbr\u003eLandscapes, Precaution, and Experiment 2\u003cbr\u003eObjectives 6\u003cbr\u003ePart I Concepts\u003cbr\u003e2 Experiments and Surprises: Classical and Contemporary\u003cbr\u003ePerspectives 13\u003cbr\u003eKnowledge Societies and the Inevitability of Surprises 14\u003cbr\u003eThe Transdisciplinarity of Ecological Restoration 19\u003cbr\u003eNew Modes of Experimental Knowledge Production 25\u003cbr\u003ePublic Experiments: Producing Surprise and (Occasional) Delight 29\u003cbr\u003eToward an Empirically Grounded Typology of Surprises 34\u003cbr\u003eNew Nature, New Surprises: Return of an Extinct Carnivore 44\u003cbr\u003e3 Knowledge Production and the Recurrence of Ignorance 49\u003cbr\u003eKnowledge in a Sea of Ignorance 50\u003cbr\u003eNescience, Ignorance, and Nonknowledge 53\u003cbr\u003eStudying the Other Side of Knowledge 59\u003cbr\u003eDynamics of the Unknown 67\u003cbr\u003eMore Questions than Answers: The Case of Malaria Control 71\u003cbr\u003eToward the Experimental Integration of Ignorance and Surprise 75\u003cbr\u003ePart II Practice\u003cbr\u003e4 Ecological Restoration and Experimental Learning 83\u003cbr\u003eEcology in Society: The Shifting Boundaries of Ecological Restoration 84\u003cbr\u003eNew Land: Shaping the Chicago Shoreline 91\u003cbr\u003eviii Contents\u003cbr\u003ePublic Participation and Controversies over “ Real ”Nature 95\u003cbr\u003eSurprises Appropriated: Native Birds, Nonnative Bushes, and the Arrival of Baby\u003cbr\u003eDunes 99\u003cbr\u003eMaintaining Integrity in the Face of Surprises 106\u003cbr\u003eAligning Research and Heterogeneous Social Goals 109\u003cbr\u003eRobust Restoration Strategies through Recursive Practice 114\u003cbr\u003e 5 Postindustrial Landscapes as Laboratories of Change 121\u003cbr\u003e Europe ’ s Largest Landscape Construction Site 122\u003cbr\u003eThe Design of a Lake District: New Nature in Postmining Landscapes 128\u003cbr\u003eAnticipated Acidifi cation and Surprising Heavy Metals 134\u003cbr\u003eFleeing Forward: Fast Flooding as Acting in the Face of Nonknowledge 140\u003cbr\u003eTrust and Nonknowledge: Research in the Context of Its Application 143\u003cbr\u003eFurther into the Unknown: Rising Water, Shrinking Population 149\u003cbr\u003eThe Challenge of Keeping Surprises Surprising 155\u003cbr\u003ePart III Outlook\u003cbr\u003e 6 Welcome Surprises and New Edifi ces of Knowledge 165\u003cbr\u003eModernity and the Unanticipated Consequences of Progress 166\u003cbr\u003eResearch as Application: Toward an Experimental Knowledge Society 168\u003cbr\u003ePerspective: Surprises as Opportunity, Nonknowledge as a Working Base 178\u003cbr\u003e Notes 183\u003cbr\u003e References 197\u003cbr\u003e Index 229Matthias Gross is Senior Researcher in the Department of Urban and Environmental Sociology at Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research–UFZ.","brand":"The MIT Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46304464896229,"sku":"NP9780262543989","price":40.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1842\/7735\/files\/9780262543989.jpg?v=1767729803","url":"https:\/\/k12savings.com\/products\/ignorance-and-surprise-isbn-9780262543989","provider":"K12savings","version":"1.0","type":"link"}