ABSTRACT
This chapter pursues the process and outcomes of disruptions, and in doing so, interrogates how surrender might be part of, as well as emergent from, uncertainty as a technology. It foregrounds various dimensions of disruption, surrender and moving beyond that relate to risk and openness and that help to progress our thoughts on uncertainty as technology. Temple Works is shrouded in myth and mystery, chosen by the organizers for this very reason to explore uncertainty. Children and families of the flax mill lived in the space underneath the building that Susan called the ‘undercroft’, and she explained that there were dormitories, shops, doctors and a church – a whole community of workers under the auspices of the industrialist, John Marshall. Uncertainty of the unknown was most extreme for Tom who participated in the exercise by not joining the human chain, and instead, waited for the group at the entrance to the undercroft.
