Infrascapes

Infrascapes describe the entanglement of infrastructure and landscape, where systems of circulation, energy, and communication are read as ecological terrains. The term shifts attention from visible form to the underlying networks that sustain urban life. Highways, pipelines, and data cables become part of a landscape imaginary, revealing infrastructures as material, spatial, and political environments. Infrascapes blur distinctions between utility and aesthetics, foregrounding the poetics of systems. They expose how power is embedded in the infrastructures that shape everyday life.