ABSTRACT
In times of urgencies, emergencies and catastrophe (Haraway, 2016; Stengers, 2015), scenarios – in climate modelling, in speculative urban design, in strategic planning – are a common method of getting a better grip on the future: What if…? In this chapter, scenarios are explored instead as a mode of rehearsal – for improvising climate futures that are uncertain and unknowable. This approach to scenarios invites an architecture of paying attention. ‘Paying attention’ implies risk-taking, experimentation and thinking through consequences, or ‘care of the possible’ (Stengers, 2015; 2011b). It indicates both an affectively and ethically engaged practice of intra-active climate citizenship and a supportive structure for rehearsing the future otherwise.
