I’ve come to some clarity on how my research into infrastructure in my PhD can be developed next.
- Book/project/articles/curatorial research – Changing what infrastructure means. Looking at the infrastructural imaginary and instituting imaginary. (Based especially on e.g., introduction and chapter 3, looking at the institutional and wider societal shift this tells of.) It also looks at infrastructural aesthetics, practice, methodologies. It ends at the point of autopoeisis and ecology in Castoriadis’s work / planetary realism.
- Book/project/articles/curatorial research – After infrastructure. This is more to do with explore infrastructural practices and alternatives based on the world after the advent of infrastructural imaginaries, infrastructural vision(s), and so on; it also considers post- and pre-infrastructural practice as an interface with ecology to pick up on the critical potential of autopoeisis and ecology in Castoriadis’s work / planetary realism. (Based on chapters 1,2,4, and so on.)
- Impact, KE and primary research – UAOIC / Vis-cog-infra. These projects explore the value, usefulness and application of the above research in the field. R+D and research producing.
Other projects fit into or cut across these strands.
- After the infrastructural turn – co-edited collection.
- Infrastructural aesthetics research cluster.
All of this works to develop, test and create critical and curatorial methodologies, exploring collective materialities, imaginaries and histories and the future infrastructures we need.