An area for further research is the use and importance of the timeline as an aesthetic, conceptual and functional device in infrastructural aesthetics. That is where there is an attempt to represent connection, causation and perhaps correlation of infrastructural effects and fields.

• This might be seen in the construction of an imaginary as a defining or traumatic event unfolds, as with Group Material’s AIDS Timeline.
• To construct a narrative of events from within a field of information which is not yet assembled, or which is assembled to convey a particular version of events, as it is used by Forensic Architecture in works such as the Turner Prize exhibition, The Long Duration of a Split Second.

• In the practices of reverse design briefs, re-structuring decision-making processes and effects of decisions.
• Or in tracing how institutions navigate their context, as with ARTNEWS’s timeline of the Whitney’s reaction to the Safariland controversy.

An Illustrated Timeline of Chinese Immigration to the US Illuminates a History of Xenophobia