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What does it take to build an infrastructural system? What kind of norms do infrastructures enforce? What happens when infrastructure starts to break down, or prove inadequate in the face of disaster? What kind of world do they make possible?
This 4 week seminar pulls back the curtain to reveal the people, processes, and values that shape the infrastructures of modern life, and how these systems simultaneously provide opportunities for and place constraints on social life. Seminar readings will examine many kinds of infrastructural systems, including transportation systems, water systems, the internet, and financial markets.
This seminar offers crucial insights for anyone interested in how built environments shape our social lives, including designers, scholars, artists, practitioners (from workers to developers to engineers to entrepreneurs), and interested citizens of every stripe. Supplemental materials on the methods of critically studying and designing infrastructures will be available.
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