ERC Starting Grant · 2025
Socio-technical modularity and the decentralization of infrastructure
There is a strong theoretical imperative for why centralized grid-/network-based societal infrastructures is the gold standard worldwide. Yet, there is a growing realization that this ideal fails to deliver on social, economic and ecological promises. This project starts from the observation that decentralized societal infrastructures are gaining momentum in high- and middle-income cities. Examples include micro-grids (energy), small-scale wastewater treatment (sanitation), multi-modal mobility (urban transport) and short food value chains (agri-food). However, existing theoretical approaches to infrastructure innovation and sector transformation offer no convincing explanation for how…
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