Operationalizing Ignorance: Post-Normal Architecture

This inquiry looks to develop a “post-normal” discourse for architecture and explores how operationalizing ignorance can become a tool for architects to develop interventions better suited to dealing with the complexity and uncertainty of wicked problems. In these contexts, where uncertainties are sufficiently high, our limited knowledge is likely produce at best partial solutions. When unknowns exceed the knowns, different design strategies – ones more inclusive of a broader community of practice – are needed to characterize this post -normal type of problem and to design effective resolutions to it. The essay concludes by discussing two workshops hosted by University of Minnesota’s School of Architecture that initiated this inquiry.

https://doi.org/10.35483/ACSA.AM.107.86

Volume Editors
Amy Kulper, Grace La & Jeremy Ficca

ISBN
978-1-944214-21-0