Black diasporan geophagia traditions, reclaimed from medical pathologization, reveal how infrastructure systems must honor rather than sever sacred relationships between communities and earth systems.
As AI systems take over research and analysis tasks, infrastructure professionals risk losing the critical thinking skills needed for complex, long-term system planning. Information literacy emerges as essential infrastructure for preserving human agency. Read the original article
Research tracking electricity consumption during climate extremes in Alberta shows how weather volatility is fundamentally altering energy demand patterns, challenging infrastructure planning models based on historical climate stability. Read the original article
Zimbabwe's Shona people demonstrate governance through kinship networks and communal land tenure — organizational principles that infrastructure planners are only beginning to rediscover through distributed systems design. Read the original article
UK bike share research reveals that successful micromobility transitions require cultivating social readiness alongside technical deployment, challenging infrastructure professionals to move beyond predict-and-provide models toward socio-technical system thinking. Read the original article
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