Infrastructure
The first test of long-term thinking
by Leo Kim
by Vincent Ialenti
The building of infrastructure is, in many ways, the first test of long-term thinking — any work of infrastructure or maintenance requires commitment on a temporal scale far longer than most artistic and commercial endeavors, but will support work both faster and slower than itself. Yet infrastructure itself requires support from long-lived institutions.
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