Field · Across science and technology
Infrastructure studies
What makes systems work, and for whom?
Overview
Infrastructure studies examines the standards, routines, organizations, and labor that support collective activity. Systems that work smoothly for one community can create obstacles for another. Studying access and breakdown helps reveal these often overlooked relationships.
Connections
Field
Technological systems & innovation →Concepts
Boundary objects →Thinkers
Susan Leigh Star (1954–2010) →Books
Sorting Things Out: Classification and Its Consequences →Articles
Steps Toward an Ecology of Infrastructure: Design and Access for Large Information Spaces →Thinkers
Thomas P. Hughes (1923–2014) →