Abstract
Infrastructure is comprised of systems or networks so complex that we can never see them in their physical totality. Yet they also shape the most immediate conditions of our lived experience, unevenly redistributing wealth, time, and life itself across society.
What kind of stories do we need to apprehend infrastructure? How can we see it and bring it under our collective control? How do we contest its arrangement of deep inequalities and begin to organise around alternatives?
This in-person panel event will engage these questions from the perspectives of academia, policy, and delivery. Our exciting line-up of speakers include:
- Zack Polanski, Deputy Leader of the Green Party and Member of the London Assembly.
- Sharri Plonski, Senior Lecturer in International Politics at Queen Mary, University of London, and co-creator of Material Crimes, a podcast that investigates infrastructures through the genre of true crime.
- Joel De Mowbray, founder of Yes Make, an infrastructure delivery organisation that specialises in empowering communities through the construction of public spaces.
This panel is free and all are welcome to attend. Refreshments will be provided. Please share with interested friends and colleagues.
The event is hosted by the Thinking Through Infrastructure Network. For updates on forthcoming events please follow @TTinfraNetwork or join the mail list by writing to dominic.davies@city.ac.uk.
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