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dc.contributor.authorReimers, Kai
dc.contributor.authorJohnston, Robert B.
dc.date.accessioned2017-12-20
dc.date.available2017-12-20
dc.date.issued2017-12-20
dc.identifier.issn1738-1744
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/2123/17703
dc.description.abstractInfrastructure is widely regarded merely as a material (lifeless) system that brings together the activities of diverse practices. In contrast to this view, we propose that when infrastructure provides a site where practices are held at once both near and apart, life under the influence of these practices is ‘lived to the full’. We call the resultant whole ‘living infrastructure’ to denote that it is both infrastructure for living and infrastructure that ‘lives’. The key idea is that a living infrastructure becomes the site where an opening between certain regions of life, that share some concern, happens. We will argue that such infrastructure is an on-going achievement of becoming, which requires nurturing and vigilance to produce and its continued productivity: otherwise it will cease to ‘live’. We present an empirical case from the German healthcare environment - the Federal Unified Medication Plan for medication therapy safety. We argue in detail that this is a nascent living infrastructure providing a site where a productive opening ‘happens’ between multiple practices involved in medication therapy safety. We analyse this ‘happening’ to establish how this opening took hold, how it was kept open, and how it was kept productive.en_AU
dc.language.isoen_AUen_AU
dc.relation.ispartofseriesBIS WP2017-01en_AU
dc.subjectInfrastructureen_AU
dc.subjectpracticesen_AU
dc.subjectprocess theoryen_AU
dc.subjecthealthcare systemsen_AU
dc.subjectmedication therapy safetyen_AU
dc.subjectLater Heideggeren_AU
dc.subjectMedieval City Squareen_AU
dc.titleLiving Infrastructureen_AU
dc.typeWorking Paperen_AU
dc.contributor.departmentBusiness and Information Systemsen_AU


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