追尋主體性的工程設計：威權政治轉型下的台灣高鐵土木設計

Pursuing Independent Engineering Design: State Transformation and Inclusive Civil Design in the Early Taiwan High Speed Rail Project

張國暉(Kuo-Hui Chang)

《台灣社會研究季刊》 85期 (2011/12) Pp. 157-200

https://doi.org/10.29816/TARQSS.201112.0005

摘要

1990年代初期，台灣政府的政治人物及工程師們在面對大型工程計畫的同時，分別都有政治性的期待。本文以高鐵工程設計為例，除說明政治人物企圖以大型工程計畫來回應國內人民及走向國際社會之外，更論證台灣官方工程師們如何在受先進國家技術支配的傳統下，使他們能實現在大型工程計畫當中獲得主導權的政治性期待。不只是台灣的政府及公民在國家轉型的過程中重新進行政治定位，工程師們對其本身的專業領域也加速進行主體性的轉變，而在「忠誠」、「安全」、「簡便」及「技術至上」等的幾個工程價值當中，選擇把「開放性」排在較優先的位置。因此當政府工程師在進行高鐵工程設計時，企圖透過優先進行土木結構的設計，藉此讓日本、法國及德國的核心機電系統都能有相同機會前來競逐，更期望藉此來轉型台灣與國外工程師之間的支配關係。

關鍵字

工程研究 ； 主體性 ； 科技研究 ； 高鐵 ； 國家轉型

並列摘要

While most of the Taiwanese people and their government confronted a serious social and political transformation from authoritative to democratic politics in the early 1990s, some of their official engineers were also thinking of how to respond to and participate in it in terms of their professional identity. This essay investigates the different engineering policies and knowledge the Taiwanese official engineers practiced before and after the state transformation. By taking the Taiwan High Speed Rail (THSR) project as an example, this essay argues why the official engineers changed their ethical priorities among several different engineering values and explores what strategies they adopted during the transformation. Among loyalty, safety, simplicity and technical perfection etc., the Taiwanese official engineers chose to place inclusiveness as their highest priority value in order to earn themselves equal and independent control from the engineers of advanced countries while conducting technology transfers. They devoted most of their efforts on the THSR's civil engineering design, by which all potential high speed rail technology exporters could be included in the THSR project with an equal opportunity. The Taiwanese official engineers thus could prevent the project from technological domination by countries such as Japan, France and Germany.

並列關鍵字

engineering studies ； subjectivity ； science and technology studies ； high speed rail ； state transformation

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