Thinking Through Infrastructure Network (TTiN)

A network that invites you to think through infrastructure – energy, transport, water, waste, housing, health – with methods from the arts, humanities, & social sciences.

Infrastructure bears the weight of the past and orients the future. TTiN is a network for academics, policy makers, community organisers, and interested citizens who think through these temporalities and work with infrastructure to confront challenges and possibilities in the present juncture.

Listen back to recordings of previous events and the network's ongoing series of podcast conversations: TTiN recordings | SoundCloud.

From housing and transport to sanitation and energy systems, TTiN understands infrastructure as the foundational and often contradictory material that unevenly distributes vital resources, including not least the resource of life itself. It sees infrastructure as the site where forms of oppression are reproduced and contested, and where new kinds of liberation might be fought for and realised.

Our activities

TTiN run a comics co-creation workshop with community energy practitioners at Hulme Garden Centre in Manchester.
TTiN discuss community energy with practitioners from across the country at Hulme Garden Centre in Manchester.
Workshop participants co-create comics about their experiences of community energy with TTiN at Hulme Garden Centre in Manchester.
Network convener Dom Davies explains the rationale behind the comics co-creation and community energy workshops at City St George’s, University of London.
Community energy practitioners gather to reflect on their work through comics and other arts-based activities.
TTiN discuss problems and experiences of community energy and document them in visual artworks.
Community energy gets creative with models, maps, comics, and zines that document technical and cultural responses to infrastructure.
Practitioners map the community energy sector using tracing paper, drawings, visual storytelling, and spatial mappings.
Network convener Dom Davies launches the “knowing infrastructures” workshop hosted by TTiN at City St George’s, University of London.
The programme and objective statement for TTiN’s “knowing infrastructures” workshop.
TTiN gets creative with seed planting as embodied pedagogy over lunch at the “knowing infrastructures” workshop.
TTiN’s “knowing infrastructures” workshop concludes with a zine making session that allows participants to reflect critically on the day’s discussions through arts practices.

TTiN values methods from the arts and humanities alongside the social sciences, experimenting with activities from zine-making to comics co-creation to build community and think differently about infrastructure. It is committed to creating an intelligent and accessible space where specialists and non-specialists can reimagine together what infrastructure is, how it operates, and who it serves.

The network logo and posters are designed by Kremena Dimitrova.