Thinking Through Infrastructure Network
Infrastructure bears the weight of the past and orients the future. The “Thinking Through Infrastructure Network” (TTiN) is a platform for academics, policy makers, and community organisers who work through infrastructure to confront the problems and possibilities of the present.
From housing and transport to sanitation and energy systems, TTiN understands infrastructure as the foundational materials that allow people to live rich and full lives, and that conversely cut lives short when they fail or breakdown.
Though engaged with technical and economic heuristics, TTiN foregrounds the political, cultural, imaginative, and emotional impact of infrastructure on people’s lived experience. Network participants think about infrastructure, but they also think through infrastructure to address pressing social justice questions.
TTiN values methods from the arts and humanities alongside the social sciences, and it creates space for specialists and non-specialists to reimagine together what infrastructure is, how it operates, and who it serves.
TTiN is comprised of online and in person events, as well as “Working With Infrastructure” sessions that include creative and practical elements. All are free to attend. For updates on forthcoming activities please follow @TTinfraNetwork or join the mail list by writing to dominic.davies@city.ac.uk.
Network Steering Group
Dominic Davies, Senior Lecturer in English, City St George’s, University of London
Kremena Dimitrova, Illustrator and Lecturer in Visual Culture, University of Portsmouth
Alexis Harris, Housing Policy Manager, Greater London Authority
Charmaine Brown, Senior Lecturer in Initial Teacher Education, University of Greenwich
Nichola Kirkby, Doctoral Research Development Coordinator, City St George’s, University of London
Diya Gupta, Lecturer in Public History, City St George’s, University of London
Samir Harb, Einstein Fellow, Humboldt Universität zu Berlin
