Infrastructure in Artifact

Why this lens matters

Infrastructure shows the hidden systems that allow daily life to function until they fail.

Follow-ups

1. What must be built, repaired, cleaned, updated or coordinated?
2. Who funds or governs the infrastructure?
3. What is taken for granted?
4. Where are the weak points?
5. What emergency systems exist?

Perspective shift

How would a maintenance worker map this world?

Perturbation

What collapses first when maintenance stops?

Example

Use this while working on the objects, tools, clothing, props and material culture: choose one concrete detail and ask how infrastructure changes what it means.