How we can work together to understand, imagine, and build humane
infrastructures and a better world. Humane Infrastructures is a deep
journey into humanistic and humane knowledge and how it can be engaged
to help us collaboratively respond in ethical and sustainable ways to
our current global challenges. Patrik Svensson takes the reader
through a series of examples, case studies, experiments, and lively
dialogues to reconsider infrastructure. He brings people, ideas, and
perspectives in through a set of documents and documented experiences,
some of which draw from the author’s practice in Umeå, Stockholm,
New York City, and Los Angeles. And he proposes frameworks, such as
the idea of an infrastructure clinic, exploring them in staged
dialogues and thought experiments. 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.
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ISBN
9780262362290
Publisert
2024
Utgiver
Random House Publishing Services
Språk
Product language
Engelsk
Format
Product format
Digital bok
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