Waste Is Information: Infrastructure Legibility and Governance

by Dietmar Offenhuber

Book Overview

The relationship between infrastructure governance and the ways we read and represent waste systems, examined through three waste tracking and participatory sensing projects.

Waste is material information. Landfills are detailed records of everyday consumption and behavior; much of what we know about the distant past we know from discarded objects unearthed by archaeologists and interpreted by historians. And yet the systems and infrastructures...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0262549964
• ISBN13: 9780262549967
• Release Date: December 2023
• Publisher: MIT Press
• Length: 280 Pages
• Weight: 1.12 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.0" x 9.0"
• Age Range: 18 years and up
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher