For many, 'infrastructure' conjures mega-projects wrapped in weighty business cases: a hydro-powered dam, epic bridge or fast train. But the infrastructure we need to live well spans education, health, housing, green space, mass transport, telecommunications, sports and cultural facilities and more.
So what do we do with infrastructure projects, generations in the making, that fail to accommodate our ever-evolving society or adapt to a changing climate? How do we address inherited systems that instil disadvantage – and approach an era where data is intrinsic to buildings, systems and even interactions?
Infrastructures of Life presented an opportunity to radically rethink the layers of assumption behind the conventional understanding of infrastructure, to interrogate what we need to collectively live well as we grapple with rapidly changing environmental conditions.
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