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How we can work together to understand, imagine, and build humane infrastructures and a better world. Imagining and building humane infrastructures require us to challenge the very nature of infrastructure, not necessarily all at once, but rather step by step. The author consequently engages with infrastructure as a concept and frames it historically, critically, and creatively with research infrastructure as a central case study. He also considers integrative niches for humanities-related work, such as environmental humanities and disability studies, as sites for critical and constructive engagement with infrastructures, including the university itself. In the end, the exploration leads to a reimagination of the humanities and, more generally, higher education as part of a capacious public-facing effort of world-(re)building. The book will appeal to scholars in the humanities and a range of intersecting fields, such as infrastructure studies, critical computing, and design.
List of contents
Preface
Introduction
1 The Making of Infrastructure
2 The Infrastructural Humanities
3 Instrumentalizing the Humanistic
4 Designing Humane Infrastructures
Conclusion: Toward Humane Infrastructures
Notes
References
Index
About the author
Patrik Svensson is a scholar, writer, curator, and entrepreneur. He is the former Director of HUMlab (2000–2014). More recently, he was a Fellow at the Swedish Collegium for Advanced Study.
