44. Infrastructure and Our Collective Future with Deb Chachra

About this episode

Deb Chachra discusses the impact of infrastructure on society and her book on the subject.

Deb Chachra is a professor of engineering at Olin College. She works at the intersection of technology and society, with an emphasis on systems, education, design, and materials. (More here) In 2023 she wrote How Infrastructure Works: Inside the Systems That Shape Our World. As she explains on her website, "our infrastructural networks – water and sewage, electricity, communications, transportation, and more – shape our lives, often in ways we don’t even think about. This is a book about lear...

People in this episode

Host: Jane McConnell

Guest: Deb Chachra

Topics covered

• infrastructure
• technology
• society
• education
• design

Keywords

• infrastructure
• technology
• society
• education
• design
• systems
• materials

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: Olin College

Books & works: How Infrastructure Works: Inside the Systems That Shape Our World

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