The Laboratory Challenge: Some Revisions of the Standard View of Early Modern Experimentation

Klein, Ursula

doi:10.1086/595771

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“…Experimental cities are thus truth‐making machines that draw no distinction between the generation and application of knowledge; as both the condition and site of change they destabilise the boundary between field and lab (Kohler 2002). This recalls an earlier mode of knowledge production, whereby naturalists and philosophers used to perform experiments in a range of places, such as parks and public houses (Klein 2008). While the emergence of modern science as pure epistemology effaced the material conditions of knowledge production, the ensuing distinction between pure and applied knowledge was really only briefly tenable in the early twentieth century.…”

Section: The Politics Of the Experimental Citymentioning

confidence: 77%

Resilience, ecology and adaptation in the experimental city

Evans¹

2011

Trans Inst British Geog

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In the face of global urbanisation and climate change, scientists are increasingly using cities to experiment with more resilient forms of urban infrastructure. Experimentation represents the practical dimension of adaptation; it is what happens in practice when policymakers, researchers, businesses and communities are charged with finding new paths. This paper traces one particular lineage of experimentation to resilience ecology, which rejects the possibility of external control over a system, casting planning and administrative functions, and even scientists themselves, as part of a Social‐Ecological System. Using insights from political ecology, laboratory studies and urban studies, the paper explores how ecologists involved with the Long Term Ecological Research Programme in the USA are embedding adaptive experiments into urban governance. Discussion focuses on the role of place in adaptive science, considering the political implications of ecologising urban governance and rendering it experimental.

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Section: The Politics Of the Experimental Citymentioning

confidence: 77%

Resilience, ecology and adaptation in the experimental city

Evans¹

2011

Trans Inst British Geog

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“…First, historians of science in particular began to investigate the heterogeneity of laboratories. Whereas the twentieth‐century modern laboratory was understood to be ‘set apart’ from the surrounding natural and social world (an idealistic representation deconstructed by laboratory studies), other laboratories often operated with less rigid distinctions and effectively combined scientific research with artisanal, commercial and other forms of non‐laboratory practice (Galison and Thompson, ; Gooday, ; Klein, ). Secondly, STS scholars closer to the tradition of sociology increasingly interpreted the laboratory as a theoretical notion.…”

Section: Unpacking the Notion Of Laboratorymentioning

confidence: 99%

Urban Laboratories: Experiments in Reworking Cities

Karvonen

Heur

2013

Int J Urban Regional Res

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The notion of the ‘urban laboratory’ is increasingly striking a chord with actors involved in urban change. Is this term simply a metaphor for urban development or does it suggest urbanization by substantially different means? To answer this question, we review the work of science and technology studies (STS) scholars who have empirically investigated laboratories and practices of experimentation over the past three decades to understand the significance of these spaces of experimentation in urban contexts. Based on this overview of laboratory studies, we argue that urban laboratories and experimentation involve three key achievements — situatedness, change‐orientation and contingency — that are useful for evaluating and critiquing those practices that claim to be urban laboratories. We conclude by considering some future directions of research on urban laboratories.

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“…Tres elementos nos parecen relevantes para centrar el debate, en primer lugar, la historia de la ciencia ha constatado la disociación entre laboratorio y experimento. El laboratorio (normalmente de ciencias físicas) ha dominado la imaginación espacial del experimento durante el siglo XX a costa de invisibilizar la diversidad de formas espaciales del experimento desde el siglo XVII (Galison y Thompson 1999;Klein 2008). Podríamos citar establece la observación participante.…”

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Experimentación etnográfica: infraestructuras de campo y re-aprendizajes de la antropología

Estalella¹,

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2016

Rev. Dialectol. Trad. Popul.

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The Laboratory Challenge: Some Revisions of the Standard View of Early Modern Experimentation

Cited by 35 publications

References 17 publications

Resilience, ecology and adaptation in the experimental city

Resilience, ecology and adaptation in the experimental city

Urban Laboratories: Experiments in Reworking Cities

Experimentación etnográfica: infraestructuras de campo y re-aprendizajes de la antropología

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