‘People as infrastructure’
People as infrastructure est un concept développé par le sociologue Abdulmaliq Simone. People as infrastructure est l’un des fondements de play/urban, en ce qu’il opère un glissement dans la manière de penser la ville, à partir des pratiques de ses habitants.
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People as Infrastructure in one sentence
AbdouMaliq Simone, in this volume, uses the term infrastructure to refer to people in the city, to the « ability of residents to engage complex combinations of objects, spaces, people, and practices » to form « conjunctions », which « become an infrastructure – a platform providing for and reproducing life in the city ». I explore the imaginary infrastructures […]