Private Capital Colonizes the Cosmos: What Space Infrastructure Investment Means for Earth

A $175M investment in lunar infrastructure signals the privatization of humanity's cosmic expansion—but who benefits when space becomes another asset class? Read the original article

Whose Voice Shapes the Homes of Tomorrow? Participatory Innovation in Social Housing

When residents become co-researchers rather than consultation subjects, social housing innovation shifts from technical optimization to community-centered sustainability Read the original article

When Tourism Infrastructure Serves Communities Instead of Extracting From Them

Indonesian villages are pioneering a radical approach to tourism infrastructure that prioritizes community capitals over corporate profits—offering a template for regenerative development. Read the original article

When Class Determines Climate Futures: Social Stratification in Environmental Decision-Making

Research reveals how social class fundamentally shapes people's willingness to make environmental sacrifices today for future generations, exposing hidden inequities in green infrastructure planning. Read the original article

When Farms Become Too Risky to Insure: Climate Change and the Infrastructure of Agricultural Survival

As climate variability intensifies, crop insurance systems are becoming a critical but invisible infrastructure layer that determines which agricultural communities survive and which are abandoned to managed decline. Read the original article

When Green Finance Creates New Carbon Pathways

Financial innovations designed to support low-carbon transitions may paradoxically generate new emission growth points through transformed human capital patterns. Read the original article

Infrastructure's Invisible Foundation: Why Microbes Must Shape Our Future Systems

Infrastructure planning has systematically ignored the planet's smallest life forms—the microbes that make all human systems possible. What happens when we design for the invisible? Read the original article

Quantum Leap: How India's Infrastructure Is Being Reimagined Through Quantum Technologies

Quantum optimization is poised to revolutionize how India manages its power grids, transport networks, and logistics corridors at unprecedented scales Read the original article

Decolonizing Environmental Data: Indigenous Knowledge as Infrastructure Foundation

Current biodiversity monitoring systems privilege Western scientific knowledge while systematically excluding Indigenous and local wisdom that has sustained ecosystems for millennia Read the original article

Queering Infrastructure Futures: Non-Binary Approaches to System Design

Queer theory's challenge to binary thinking offers infrastructure planners new tools for imagining systems that resist categorization and embrace multiplicities of use, identity, and temporal experience. Read the original article

Multi-Ethnic Cities as Infrastructure Laboratories: Designing Systems That Foster Rather Than Fragment Communities

Research on multi-ethnic urban satisfaction reveals how infrastructure systems can either fragment or foster community cohesion across generational timescales Read the original article

Artificial Reefs as Invasion Highways: Rethinking Marine Infrastructure's Ecological Legacy

Research reveals that artificial marine structures disproportionately harbor invasive species, challenging coastal planners to design infrastructure that supports native ecosystems rather than inadvertently undermining them. Read the original article