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Abstract
Resilience and climate change adaptation (CCA) are closely connected to the concepts of value. From this departure, handling of water (HOW) is a pressing issue which involves values at many levels: it challenges economies, questions governance, planning, settlement patterns, land-use, spatial understandings, infrastructural strategies, sensory sensations, use of materials and daily life practices. Furthermore, water represents uncertainty and does not acknowledge administrative boundaries. Approaching this through the acknowledgement of watersheds reveals how water forces diverse actors to act together which is closely related to actions and spatial practices of value in urban landscapes.Values, however, are plural and relationally dependent. Different actors see them differently from their varying fields of interests, professions and time perspectives. How do we bridge fields of value across disciplines, engagements and traditional boundaries in order to engage with concepts of value as a way to qualify actions in a practice-oriented context? This is the basic point of view of this paper.This paper proposes the approach of Boltanski and Thévenot to engage with this issue. They present a way of identifying and justifying values with their 6 Regimes of Justification (Boltanski, 2006): the inspirational, the domestic, the opinion, the civic, the market and the industrial regimes. These regimes can provide a methodological approach to clarify, decode and encode values, which ALSO can allow for mutual understanding and collaborative creation. The subject matter is approached through best-practices of watershed projects in Seattle explored through research by design methodologies. The over arching aim is to develop methods to discuss, engage and envision resilience and (future) values in urban landscapes in an age of uncertainty
Original language | English |
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Publication date | 2015 |
Number of pages | 1 |
Publication status | Published - 2015 |
Event | Architecture and resilience on a human scale - Sheffield School of Architecture, The University of Sheffield, Sheffield, United Kingdom Duration: 10 Sept 2015 → 12 Sept 2015 |
Conference
Conference | Architecture and resilience on a human scale |
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Location | Sheffield School of Architecture, The University of Sheffield |
Country/Territory | United Kingdom |
City | Sheffield |
Period | 10/09/2015 → 12/09/2015 |
Keywords
- climate change
- waterscapes
- co-creation
- resilience
- urban landscapes
Artistic research
- No
Activities
- 1 Organisation and participation in conference
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Architecture and resilience on a human scale
Katrina Wiberg (Speaker)
10 Sept 2015 → 12 Sept 2015Activity: Participating in or organising an event › Organisation and participation in conference
Research output
- 1 Article in proceedings
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Values, Watersheds and Justification: On the handling of water in the urban landscapes of climate change
Wiberg, K., 30 Sept 2015, Architecture and Resilience on the Human Scale: Proceedings. Sheffield: University of Sheffield, p. 137-150 13 p.Publications: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Article in proceedings › Research › peer-review
Open Access
Projects
- 1 Finished