作为一种社会技术想象的创新型城市

The Innovative City as One of the Sociotechnical Imaginaries

找不到创新型城市建设与城市发展机制之间的抓手,是"指标化"创新型城市理念下无法解决的问题。本文通过引入STS中新近出现的社会技术想象的概念,并通过思想实验的方式将概念理论化认为,社会技术想象能够成为引导并形塑未来的重要资源,但这一机制只有在同时满足与技术和人工物结盟、对外"黑箱化"和对内"开放化"的条件下才能够达成。在理论本源上,创新型城市的系统论预设决定了其先天不足;在实践过程中,指标化和个案化的抽离也会让人忽略城市整体发展的全貌。因此,发展中国家创新型城市的建设必须同其他城市治理技术和城市化人工物结盟,并重新团结被指标排除在外的力量,想象自我实现的预言才可以达成。

If we took the construction of innovative city as a bench-marking process, the balance between this new task and the entire cities' development vision could never be reached.By introducing the emerging concept in STS sociotechnical imaginaries,and by theorizing it through thought experiments, this paper emphasizes that sociotechnical imaginaries could certainly be a valuable resource to guide and shape the future, but only under the condition of the alliance with technologies and artifacts, the outside being 'black-boxed' and the inside being 'un-black-boxed', can this self-fulfilling prophecy magic be achieved.Originated from the innovation system theory, the systemic idea proposed by the innovative city has some congenital deficiency.Furthermore, the dis-embeddedness caused by the 'bench-marking' and 'best practices lesson-drawing' often leads to ignorance of the overall cities'development in practice.The construction of innovative cities in developing countries accordingly, should form a much broader alliance with other urban governance technologies as well as urbanization artifacts, and host a much tighter reunion with the actors that were rejected outside before.