{"id":8502,"date":"2019-03-06T10:53:00","date_gmt":"2019-03-06T09:53:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.uni.lu\/c2dh-en\/?post_type=articles&p=8502"},"modified":"2025-04-15T13:44:47","modified_gmt":"2025-04-15T11:44:47","slug":"patrik-svensson-unframing-infrastructure","status":"publish","type":"articles","link":"https:\/\/www.uni.lu\/c2dh-en\/articles\/patrik-svensson-unframing-infrastructure\/","title":{"rendered":"Lecture Patrik Svensson – Unframing Infrastructure: recording and interview"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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\nLecture by Patrik Svensson, Professor of Humanities and Information Technology at Ume\u00e5 University, and exclusive interview for the C\u00b2DH\u2019s \u2018New Horizons\u2019 lecture series.<\/h5>\n\n\n\n

Since the mid-1990s we have seen the emergence of \u2018research infrastructure\u2019 as a framework, which is now an important factor in allocating resources, controlling academic work and imagining futures. These futures are often technocentric, \u2018heavy\u2019, standardized and driven by data. They are also about transformation and breakthroughs. In a recent Australian infrastructure roadmap, research infrastructure is described as the \u201cleaps that remake the world\u201d.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In this talk, Patrik Svensson traces the emergence of research infrastructure and considers its properties and mechanics. He is particularly interested in how the humanities \u2013 partly through the digital humanities \u2013 have negotiated the infrastructure turn, and how research infrastructure in the humanities, as outlined in policy documents and reports, often becomes a refuge from practices and perspectives that would seem central to humanistic work. He argues that infrastructure is not a fixed concept and that we need to make sure that infrastructure, inside and outside the academy, is based on humanistic and human values.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Svensson\u2019s work is practice based and he uses concrete examples (e.g. labs, technology, institutions, events and policy work).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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