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Les Infrastructures en temps de crise. Conceptions et recherches à l’aune du dérèglement climatique

Infrastructure in Times of Crisis: Design and Research facing Climate Change
Edited by Mathieu Mercuriali and Corinne Tiry-Ono
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 Today, a recomposition of the climate-related challenges facing infrastructure is taking place. This issue thus seeks to explore developments in the role of “infrastructure in times of crisis” through various spatial design pathways. The eight contributions selected for this issue are divided into the three following sections, which reflect the topics covered: evolving perceptions of infrastructure, infrastructural vulnerability, and anticipating future infrastructure.

The first section includes two articles that take complementary approaches to studying highways as a group of infrastructure. On the one hand, as an artifact of triumphant modernity reconsidered early on and critically by various planning actors at the time. On the other, as a real witness, based on environmental issues emerging throughout Europe in the 1960s and the 1970s.

The second section focuses on the physical infrastructure in various key industries (transportation, communications, and leisure) grappling with obsolescence. The three articles investigate three different types of infrastructure–road bridges, television towers, and alpine infrastructure–through a historical lens, revealing how crises emerging from socio-technical shifts can lead to their obsolescence.

The third and final section is comprised of three contributions dealing with infrastructure at a local scale, taking a forward-looking, and even speculative approach to research in this area. The infrastructure discussed offers a way of looking at natural environments that could be considered “a form of mediation” with living organisms.

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