Infraestructuras confiables

Technological infrastructures — like data centers, energy infrastructure, and algorithmic tools — have impacted people and places in material, highly localized ways. We study the places at the center of these impacts and how these infrastructures shape local democracy, land, labor, and access to resources. Our work is rooted in place, focusing on the complex and layered ways technologies impact people outside of the digital realm.

Lo que hacemos

Our work uncovers how technological infrastructures, and the policies that govern them, are reshaping power and trust today. We study changes caused by AI infrastructures and tools, the complex socioeconomic legacies these investments build upon, and what these shifts mean for the people at the center of these forces. Importantly, we study how people respond to these shifts, creating new forms of power, agency, and knowledge in response. We combine deep ethnographic work with meaningful engagement across institutions, policymakers, organizers, and residents, and translate across geographies to better understand AI’s material impact on the public.


Focus Areas

We produce empirical research to shape the development and governance of trustworthy infrastructures that center the experience, power, and knowledge of impacted people and communities.


Place-Based Practices

We explore how the arrival of physical infrastructure creates new sociopolitical, economic, and climate conditions in particular sites and regions, and how communities contend with these changes.

Infrastructures of Care

We investigate how people at the nexus of multiple overlapping social vulnerabilities experience, resist, and respond to technology through networks of care.

Knowledge, Embodiment, And Power

We research how community knowledge reasserts itself in the face of broad top-down technological change, and how individuals build alternative models of engagement that centers their own power.


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