The Infrastructures of Citizenship Project interrogates infrastructures that enable or constrain individuals to constitute themselves politically in urban areas. The project focuses on relearning how practices, objects, signs and spaces structure each other’s effect on social and civic life. In an international comparison of the cities Los Angeles, Berlin, Mumbai and Wuhan the scientists will blend methodologies from social science, visual art, and narrative non-fiction to create an infinitely expandable archive of the limits to and possibilities for constructing civil society in these different settings. In each research site, the group will look for physical traces of these limits and possibilities at the widest range of scales, from the scale of the metropolitan system (e.g. a public transit network) to the scale of the artifact (e.g. the pamphlet or the identity card).

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