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| Title: | Collective wondering : enabling productive uncertainty in agroecological codesign | Authors: | Wernli, M | Issue Date: | 2021 | Source: | CoDesign, 2021, v. 18, no. 1, p. 95-114 | Abstract: | This paper explores the transformative relations of unknowable possibility in three urban communities which upcycle human waste. Working with communities – human and nonhuman – is approached by applying the dynamic model of collective wondering conceived as (i) provisional proposition, (ii) responsiveness to difference, and (iii) affirmation in/of uncertainty. The communities act in concert with people, microbes, and earthworms to address unsustainable food systems. Their profoundly self-implicating engagement on the material, social and cultural level stems from a pendulation between actionable immersion (wondering at) and perspectival detachment (wondering about). Community – understood as togetherness in wondering – becomes a conduit for imaginative, counter-intuitive thinking, and doing that can diversify existent, dominant, and hegemonic perspectives. Three agroecological cases illustrate how cultivating a rich, interactive context for exchanging or moving positions give birth to a plurality of perspectives, human and nonhuman, on the world. Since physical, social, and cultural positions in people and groups are never fully determined, codesign that provides ample possibility for repositioning – including unsettling bathroom routines, group debates, compost care, and agroecological tinkering – is crucial for opening perspectives and influencing how people act in close relation with unknowable otherness. | Keywords: | Agroecological exploration Community Ferment Human waste Situational analysis Social creativity |
Publisher: | Taylor & Francis | Journal: | CoDesign | ISSN: | 1571-0882 | EISSN: | 1745-3755 | DOI: | 10.1080/15710882.2021.2001534 | Rights: | © 2021 Informa UK Limited, trading as Taylor & Francis Group This is an Accepted Manuscript of an article published by Taylor & Francis in CoDesign on 15 Nov 2021 (Published online), available online: http://www.tandfonline.com/10.1080/15710882.2021.2001534 |
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