Foundations 19 – Infrastructure Space

Territorial scale – Recognizing politico-environmental ecologies

The full complexity of the apparatus

Infrastructure plays an important role in the organization of so- ciety. It is therefore also a political and economic instrument that influences physical and cultural development. This is especially true for infrastructure at the regional and national scales, where the systems cross borders. In our increasingly networked world, such “territorial infrastructure” requires a new basic framework in terms of design, implementation, and usage. The workshop, moderated by Geoffrey Thün and Kathy Velikov, focused on three categories of territorial infrastructure: infra- structure that protects society against environmental dangers and disasters, infrastructure for handling and distributing resources such as water or energy, and the infrastructure of connectivity. The workshop participants investigated questions such as: What ideological, cultural, economic, social, and political aspects are crucial in the development of these infrastructures? How can the

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