In this interactive conversation and walk around the Ford Building, Olin College of Engineering Professor Deb Chachra will show us the interconnections between physical infrastructure and the social, creative, and care networks that sustain and transform the world we live in. This walk is connected with Dr. Chachra's 2 p.m. talk on How Infrastructure Works in the ITW room (1.350) of the Ford Building; attendees are welcome to join both or either program.

Speaker biography: Olin College of Engineering Professor Deb Chachra is the author of How Infrastructure Works: Inside the Systems That Shape Our World (Riverhead/Torva, 2023), which was named a Best Book of 2023 by Publishers Weekly. She writes, thinks, builds, and speaks widely on themes of technology and society. Her work and ideas have been supported by the Sloan Foundation, the Autodesk Foundation, and others, and she received an NSF CAREER Award for research on engineering education. She has written for outlets including the Atlantic and Nature and a regular column for the American Society for Engineering Education's Prism magazine, as well as her own long-running online newsletter, Metafoundry.