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benpatrickwill.bsky.social
We wrote about a few alternatives to this private re-infrastructuring of public education in the paper. These alternatives remain in the periphery but represent different pathways to better futures of education than the dismal narrative we're being told is inevitable right now. /end
November 7, 2025 at 9:57 PM
benpatrickwill.bsky.social
The result of what we call this re-infrastructuring of education by tech companies is likely to be increasing loss of control of pedagogic and administrative processes to automation and - our current big concern - "AI agents" that undermine the entire enterprise of education. 4/
November 7, 2025 at 9:48 PM
sloanelysbeth.bsky.social
sloane lysbeth @sloanelysbeth.bsky.social. 6d labour: nigel farage wants to privatise the nhs! yeah. we know. he told us. he said so out loud. what are you doing? labour: um. well. we're using private companies, see, but it's not privatisation. it's restructuring and... idk, i guess modernising, and maybe infrastructuring with private capital
September 30, 2025 at 1:22 PM
sloanelysbeth.bsky.social
labour: nigel farage wants to privatise the nhs!

yeah. we know. he told us. he said so out loud. what are you doing?

labour: um. well. we're using private companies, see, but it's not privatisation. it's restructuring and... idk, i guess modernising, and maybe infrastructuring with private capital
September 24, 2025 at 7:21 AM
danlockton.com
Come and do a funded design PhD with me at TU Eindhoven:

Imagination Infrastructuring: Exploring roles for generative creativity tools in participatory futuring, climate crisis, and societal transitions jobs.tue.nl/en/vacancy/p...

Apply before 26 November. Questions welcome!
PhD Imagination Infrastructuring: Creativity tools, climate futures, transitions
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October 19, 2023 at 11:16 AM
ucldiscovery.bsky.social
Open Access UCL Research: Urban Digital Infrastructuring and the (re)production of Privilege discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/10...
Urban Digital Infrastructuring and the (re)production of Privilege - UCL Discovery
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February 5, 2025 at 1:24 PM
jasonmosley.bsky.social
Please join us for the Northeast Africa Forum on 29 January, 14:00. 'Rural Futures in Eastern Africa'

Six excellent papers, covering cases in Kenya & Ethiopia.

*Hybrid event*. Full details & webinar registration:
talks.ox.ac.uk/talks/id/441...
Panel 1: 14:00 – 15:00 Clemens Greiner (Köln) - Infrastructuring the energy frontier: Harnessing geothermal resources in Baringo, Kenya Lotte Hughes (Open) - Feeling the heat: The impacts of geothermal industry on communities at Olkaria and Akiira, Kenya Panel 2: 15:30 – 16:30 Biruk Terrefe (Bayreuth) - The resilient pasts & fragile futures of infrastructure in Eastern Ethiopia Neil Carrier (Bristol) - The shash revolution: illicit livelihoods and development in the borderlands and beyond Panel 3: 16:30 – 17:30 Evelyne Owino (Bonn) - Hybrid frontiers: assemblages of power, blurred boundaries, and the dynamics of control in Suguta Valley, Kenya David M Anderson (Warwick) - “We are cursed by God”: Prosopis juliflora, the flood, and Baringo’s environmental future The uncertainties of rural life in Eastern Africa's underdeveloped arid and semi-arid districts have always presented challenges for the local communities of this long-neglected region. Over the past decade the supposed 'resilience' of these communities has been tested by the perceived impacts of climate change, and often disrupted by major political changes - for example devolution in Kenya, and severe instability in Ethiopia. At the same time, national plans for economic development have for the first time promised significant investment in these areas, with new roads and improved transport infrastructure, energy projects around oil, electricity supply and geothermal resources, and greater local participation in development all building up hopes of a better future. This interdisciplinary workshop examines the challenges and the opportunities that this complex and sometimes contradictory future now presents in the arid and semi-arid regions of Kenya and Ethiopia.
January 22, 2025 at 4:36 PM
tapuya.org
📌Just Out!

New original article "Infrastructuring platform delivery work: exclusions, coercions and resistance in delivery platforms’ migrant work in Bogotá, Colombia"🛵

By Derly Yohanna Sánchez et al.

🚪Read at doi.org/10.1080/25729861.2024.2343161
#GigEconomy #DigitalPlatform #OpenAccess #Tapuya7
December 19, 2024 at 10:52 PM
danlockton.com
Come and do a funded design PhD with me at @TUeindhoven :

Imagination Infrastructuring: Exploring roles for generative creativity tools in participatory futuring, climate crisis, and societal transitions...
November 4, 2024 at 2:44 AM
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📌[Article] in Tapuya Vol. 7

Read "Infrastructuring platform delivery work: exclusions, coercions and resistance in delivery platforms’ migrant work in Bogotá, Colombia"🛵🇨🇴

By Derly Yohanna Sánchez, et al.

🚪 doi.org/10.1080/25729861.2024.2343161
#GigEconomy #OpenAccess #Tapuya7
vivavivette.bsky.social Vivette García Deister @vivavivette.bsky.social · Mar 12
Venezuelan migrants on Bogotá’s Rappi platform confront algorithmic coercion and legal exclusions, yet carve solidarity tactics amid gig labor precarity—exposing hidden violences in Colombia’s digital economy. 🛵🇨🇴

🚪Read at: doi.org/10.1080/25729861.2024.2343161 @tapuya.org
March 17, 2025 at 7:02 PM
journalurp.bsky.social
Take a look at the #BookReview of "Infrastructuring urban futures: The politics of remaking cities edited by Alan Wiig, Kevin Ward, Theresa Enright, Mike Hodson, Hamil Pearsall & Jonathan Silver". Reviewed by Sophia Leipert (@soviel.bsky.social‬).
doi.org/10.1080/1753...
July 7, 2025 at 8:04 AM
drnorma.bsky.social
While arrival infrastructuring relies heavily on non‐governmental actors everywhere, urban decline leads to an increasing dependence on external funding, which was found to be provided by regional and national foundations. /5
December 19, 2024 at 1:22 PM
notopfer.bsky.social
But isn't "infrastructuring" like the STS ur-gerund? (not 100% tbh what's the True Origins, lol).
February 10, 2024 at 5:50 AM
whoisenri.bsky.social
📢 CFP | Station 5 “De-borderlands: Naming, Gendering & Infrastructuring Freedom of Movement”
🗓️ 24–27 Nov 2025 | 📩 Deadline: 30 Jul
Submit your abstract via SolRoutes 👉 www.solroutes.eu/news/call-fo...
#SolRoutes #Gender #Borders #Mobility
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June 25, 2025 at 1:18 PM
Received frameworks, inheritances, are already involved in infrastructuring what appears as a blank map or an open field of potential. As the brilliant @shannonmattern.bsky.social writes, for each nothing, "we have to acknowledge all the countless somethings that make that nothing imaginable."
February 21, 2025 at 12:20 PM
petergoodyear.bsky.social
If you want to practice your infrastructuring, this is the place to learn.
May 7, 2024 at 9:36 AM
garyackermanphd.bsky.social
I encountered “infrastructuring” for the first time... the more I think about it the more I like it.
August 24, 2025 at 7:11 PM
timelfen.bsky.social
I can't believe some yahoo (@npseaver ) just published an article on the tensions btwn scale & care, on the very day I am writing abt the tensions of infrastructuring (not quite scaling) up a project that defines itself as scaling small (aka caring). https://doi.org/10.14506/ca36.3.11
Care and Scale: Decorrelative Ethics in Algorithmic...
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November 17, 2024 at 1:35 PM
ionheras.bsky.social
Dry-Stone Ecologies is an invitation to read the infrastructuring of territory as a process full of paradoxes and unexpected relationships. And to think about care, forms of ownership and territoriality, and more-than-human coexistence starting from what seems most basic: the stones.
May 22, 2025 at 11:47 AM
mocksim-latest.bsky.social
Presenting at The Whiddy School: agonisticdesign.com
Deets: AGON-A
Whiddy Island 4-6 July, 2025
Antidefuturing: Infrastructuring for Socio-Technical Sustainability
AGON-A is a gathering of designers, artists and activists to share knowledge and explore ways to build foundations...
AGON – Antidefuturing: Infrastructuring for Socio-Technical Sustainability
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June 27, 2025 at 3:41 PM
lmt-journal.bsky.social
🟨New Publication in #LMT 🟪

In this article Decuypere an colleagues develop ask how the data infrastructuring of an edtech event on the one hand, and the data infrastructuring of ethnographic event research on the other hand, relate to, and impact, one another.

Read more (🔓): tinyurl.com/5arcvsdc
Tracing the infrastructural unfolding of (edtech) events through hybrid team ethnography Mathias Decuypere, Nina Brandau, Sigrid Hartong, Lucas Joecks, Carlos Ortegon, Anja Loft-Akhoondi, Toon Tierens & Lanze Vanermen ABSTRACT This article contributes to expanding discussions on the rising hybridity of (edtech) events and, in conjunction to that, of ethnographic (edtech) event research. With hybridity, we point to the increasing postdigital condition of contemporary society. Even though such hybridity, and its methodological consequences for ethnographic research, are increasingly discussed, few attention has so far been put on how this hybridity manifests in, and is mediated through, orchestrations of data infrastructures. This article presents hybrid team ethnography as a way to study, and at the same time be intricately interwoven with, such infrastructure-mediated hybridity. Concretely, we report on an ethnography in which we studied an event in the edtech startup sector. Our findings showcase how researchers co-construct and are shaped by events, not just through dynamic interplays between physical presence-absence, but equally through data infrastructures and research(er) presentation. Moreover, they simultaneously showcase how edtech events unfold infrastructurally over space and time.
February 24, 2025 at 2:44 PM
sts-barcelona.bsky.social
📰Nou article📰

"Infrastructuring Neurodiversity Publics: The Co-Design of an App for People with Autism"
Publicat a la revista Scandinavian Journal of Disability Research

Llegeix-lo aquí👇👇
sjdr.se/articles/10....
Infrastructuring Neurodiversity Publics: The Co-Design of an App for People with Autism | Scandinavian Journal of Disability Research
Scandinavian Journal of Disability Research is an international peer-reviewed journal aiming to disseminate innovative, high quality, social research on disability, which enables critical reflection o...
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November 19, 2024 at 11:34 AM
jen-nelles.bsky.social
Annnd the NOIR team also recently contributed to the fantastic collection, Infrastructuring Urban Futures
The Politics of Remaking Cities:

On Fetishes, Fragments and Futures: Regionalizing Infrastructural Lives

bristoluniversitypressdigital.com/edcollchap-o...
bristoluniversitypressdigital.com
September 10, 2024 at 3:52 PM