An Ode to Living on The Grid

An interview with Deb Chachra, author of How Infrastructure Works Deb Chachra is a material scientist and engineering professor at Olin College who writes extensively about infrastructural systems. Astute readers may have noticed that she is one of the thinkers most frequently cited in SOW: I recently referenced her work,

An interview with Deb Chachra, author of How Infrastructure Works Deb Chachra is a material scientist and engineering professor at Olin College who writes extensively about infrastructural systems. Astute readers may have noticed that she is one of the thinkers most frequently cited in SOW: I recently referenced her work , as did TW earlier this year . Deb also joined as a guest writer in 2017 . Her thoughtful writing forefronts the interplay between technical and social factors, calling infrastructure the way we take care of each other at a planetary scale. I have loved following Deb’s work o

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