Tangible Material Research Articles

The Effects of Remote Pandemic Education on Crafts Pedagogy: Opportunities, Challenges, and Interaction

The Covid-19 pandemic caused many sudden social changes, including a shift to remote education in many countries. In Finland, remote education also concerns crafts as a standard school subject, combining aspects of art, design, textile, and technology in basic education. Accordingly, Finnish craft teachers faced the unprecedented situation of teaching remotely a subject, which often involves hands-on activities with tangible tools and materials. The present study explores how craft pedagogy has been adapted to remote education by looking at the opportunities and challenges it faces and the effects on classroom interaction. The data consist of the output of two webinars (i.e. 27 group assignments from 123 participants) organised in the autumn of 2020 and targeted at craft teachers and student craft teachers at various levels of the education system. The qualitative, data-driven content analysis reveals that remote teaching provides beneficial opportunities for involving students’ everyday lives and families in craft education. However, challenges exist relating to the unequal distribution of materials, as well as technical and social resources at different levels of education and in various contexts. Our study also finds that remote teaching is more teacher-centred and task-oriented than classroom interaction. Online teaching facilities allow teachers to provide students with more individual feedback but make maintaining students’ peer interaction difficult. Although remote craft education was considered very challenging at first, teachers have managed to create useful pedagogical practices to be utilised in and beyond the era of the Covid-19 pandemic.

My dear diaries: Following, valuing and reflecting on moments with research materials

This article explores how solicited paper diaries, and the accompanying materials, are carefully handled over the course of one research project. It foregrounds the value of attending to mundane moments with research materials, by tracing tangible material encounters together with intimate fieldnote reflections. Through drawing upon theories of materiality with feminist and relational ethics of care, this article centralises paper diaries as a key mediator of relationships and care within research. It considers the micro processes of choosing diaries, posting them, receiving and storing them and tracing the emotionally charged moments as a researcher in everyday research situations. Such reflections, from the perspective of the researcher, look to offer insights into research relationalities and care. It argues that these momentary fieldwork reflections extend understandings of material methodologies by emphasising relational intimacies as a researcher and connects material and sensory understandings with feminist ethics of care and researcher reciprocities.

Training and assessing numerical abilities across the lifespan with intelligent systems: The example of Baldo

AbstractBaldo is an intelligent system that can be used to assess and train numerical abilities across the lifespan, especially for children and elderly. Baldo includes digital and tangible materials to propose activities, built on the game‐based learning approach, strongly grounded on well‐known and experimentally supported theories about numerical and mathematical cognition. Moreover, Baldo has a special module devoted to motivational and affective dimensions related to mathematic cognition and a tutoring system to select specific activities that are adequate to the actual and potential level of the people involved in the training pathway.

Virtual experimentations by deep learning on tangible materials

Artificial intelligence relying on structure-property databases is an emerging powerful tool to discover new materials with targeted properties. However, this approach cannot be easily applied to tangible structures, such as plastic composites and fabrics, because of their high structural complexity. Here, we propose a deep learning computational framework that can implement virtual experiments on tangible structures. Structural representations of complex carbon nanotube films were conducted by multiple generative adversarial networks of scanning electron microscope images at four levels of magnifications, enabling a deep learning prediction of multiple properties such as electrical conductivity and surface area. 1716 virtual experiments were completed within an hour, a task that would take years for real experiments. The data can be used as a versatile database for material science, in analogy to databases of molecules and solids used in cheminformatics. Useful examples are the investigation of correlations between electrical conductivity, specific surface area, wall number phase diagrams, economic performance, and inversely designed supercapacitors.

The Labor of Curating: Fandom, Museums, and the Value of Fan Heritage

The Labor of Curating: Fandom, Museums, and the Value of Fan Heritage

The Enhancement of Selectivity and Activity for Two-Electron Oxygen Reduction Reaction by Tuned Oxygen Defects on Amorphous Hydroxide Catalysts

Amorphous catalysts, thanks to their unique coordinately unsaturated properties and abundant of defect sites, incline to possess higher activity and selectivity than their crystalline counterparts....

Mapuche cosmovision and territorial rights: An interdisciplinary approach to understand the conflict of Wallmapu, Chile

The indigenous population of Latin America has been suffering from a sense of alienation since the arrival of Columbus in 1492 who referred to this land as “Nuevo Mundo”. There is a long history of environmental exploitation in Chile which has severely strained the relationship amongst the Mapuche community, the State and private entities (hydroelectric and timber industry). Although this conflict seems to be economic-productive associated with land, wherein land attains a “tangible material good”, in the Mapuche cosmovision, land (Mapu means land in Mapudungun, the language of Mapuche) acquires a connotation of “intangible material and immaterial good”. There is a profound imperceptible connection between nature and Mapuche and their traditions and culture are strongly rooted in the land. The industrial expansion has promoted a series of negative externalities like habitat fragmentation, loss of native forest, biodiversity reduction, water availability, etc. These affect the “idiosyncrasy” of this community (Mapuche-Nature relationship) and loss of their land could represent an identity loss. The Chilean indigenous policy appears to be inadequate and fail to recognize the socio-cultural and territorial rights for all indigenous peoples, including Mapuche, given the multidimensionality of the land under the indigenous cosmovision. The socio-political measures imposed by the Chilean government until now to make their life “modern” boomeranged alienating them further from society. This paper proposes to look at the territorial rights of the Mapuche with an interdisciplinary approach and focuses on developing the conceptual framework of Mapuche cosmovision of land and territory. The study follows a brief analysis of the historical context of the territorial conflict between the Chilean State and the Mapuche people and how the implementation of national and international normative framework on indigenous rights has not been effective in resolving this territorial conflict. The study tries to synthesize and talks about integrating the Mapuche land cosmovision in the socio-political discourse and be considered while formulating any land policy involving Mapuche and other indigenous peoples inhabiting in Chile in future. The discussions and analysis have been carried out through a comprehensive literature review and integrate an interdisciplinary approach to look at this issue, both from the philosophical perspective and from the socio-political policy framework of government.

The enhancing selectivity and activity for 2-electron oxygen reduction reaction by tuned oxygen defect on amorphous hydroxide catalysts

Open AccessCCS Chemistry26 Feb 2021The enhancing selectivity and activity for 2-electron oxygen reduction reaction by tuned oxygen defect on amorphous hydroxide catalysts Junheng Huang, Changle Fu, Junxiang Chen, Nangan Senthilkumar, Xinxin Peng and Zhenhai Wen Junheng Huang Google Scholar More articles by this author , Changle Fu Google Scholar More articles by this author , Junxiang Chen Google Scholar More articles by this author , Nangan Senthilkumar Google Scholar More articles by this author , Xinxin Peng Google Scholar More articles by this author and Zhenhai Wen Google Scholar More articles by this author https://doi.org/10.31635/ccschem.021.202100750 SectionsSupplemental MaterialAboutPDF ToolsAdd to favoritesTrack Citations ShareFacebookTwitterLinked InEmail Amorphous catalysts, thanks to their unique coordinately unsaturated properties and abundant of defect sites, incline to possess higher activity and selectivity than their crystalline counterparts. In this work, we report a facile and general solvent-controlled-precipitation method to prepare hybrids of graphene oxide (GO) supporting amorphous metal hydroxide (A-M(OH)x/GO, M = Cu, Co, Mn), which provides us with tangible materials to study the structure-performance relationship of various amorphous oxides. The systematic investigations on A-Cu(OH)2/GO by coupling ex-situ/in-situ characteristic techniques with electrochemical studies reveal that electrocatalytic activity and selectivity toward 2 electron oxygen reduction reaction (ORR) is highly dependent on the coordinated Cu catalytic sites and the disorder structure of A-Cu(OH)2. In-situ X-ray absorption near edge structure (XANES) and density functional theory (DFT) calculation verify that the degree of OH* poisoning (ΔG0OH*) tuned by 3-OHcoordinated Cu sites in amorphous structures play a crucial role in selective catalysis of ORR for H2O2 production. The optimized A-Cu(OH)2/GO shows superior activity and high selectivity (∼95%) toward H2O2, as demonstrated by a Zinc-air battery that is capable of on-site producing H2O2 with a production rate of as high as 3401.5 mmol h−1 g−1. Download figure Download PowerPoint Previous article FiguresReferencesRelatedDetails Issue AssignmentNot Yet AssignedSupporting Information Copyright & Permissions© 2021 Chinese Chemical Society Downloaded 103 times Loading ...

Reframing the Notion of “The Artist’s Intent:” A Study of Caring for Thomas Hirschhorn’s Intensif-Station (2010)

ABSTRACT Museums are increasingly responsible for the care of highly complex artworks that are often co-produced, co-curated and co-conserved. The preservation of many artworks no longer hinges solely on the endurance of original materials, and as such, conservators are compelled to embrace the active life of these works. This paper studies Thomas Hirschhorn’s ongoing involvement with his work Intensif-Station (2010) over time and assesses the collaborations between artist and museum staff through the eyes of the conservator. By investigating the biography of this immersive artwork composed of rapidly degrading materials meant not to decay and perish but to persist, tangible material questions prompted conservators to probe “the artist’s intent.” Could the much-problematized notion be reframed as an open-ended process?

Software Distribution in E-Form: the Problem of Choosing a Contractual Model

The paper is devoted to the analysis of peculiarities of legal support of distribution of “boxless” versions of foreign software distributed exclusively in e-form in Russia. In the conditions of digitalization of economic relations, a significant part of the difficulties, Russian software distributors face with, are associated with the imperfection of contractual work in companies rather than with the current legislation. The author highlights the specifics of contractual relations (their prerequisites and content) between the distributer (reseller) and right-holder (vendor) as factors influencing the choice of a contract concluded between the software distributor and purchaser, as well as availability or lack of a tangible (material) medium as an objective form of existence of computer software. The author elucidates such prerequisites for establishing contractual relationships as substantial inequality of negotiating positions, the predetermined choice of applicable law and transformation of classical distributor's perception. Regarding their content, contracts between the vendor and reseller are often characterized by an outright prohibition of sublicensing and the assignment of duties on the reseller to perform a whole set of actions. In turn, a fundamental lack of software versions on tangible media at the vendor calls into question the feasibility of concluding a contract between the reseller and the user of the contract of sale widely used in Russian contractual practice. The analysis of the whole set of these factors with due regard to the Russian law enforcement practice, allows us to draw a conclusion about the advantages of an intermediary model of distribution using the agency contract. This model is the least vulnerable in the context of intellectual rights infringement at all stages of distribution and provides appropriate expert support to the end user of the software.

An Interview with Jacques Rancière: Playing Freely, from the Other, to the Letter

An Interview with Jacques Rancière:Playing Freely, from the Other, to the Letter Joseph R. Shafer (bio) and Jacques Rancière (bio) When I first contacted Jacques Rancière in March 2017, nearly three-and-a-half years before the completion of this interview, a few basic questions were growing heavy. Questions limited to current political climates, trending philosophical systems, specific literary works, designated historical shifts, or particular Rancièrean terms would be reluctantly put aside in pursuit of certain elemental distinctions that might better inform the rest. The original proposal was to work around such slippery paradoxes as resistance, and to readdress tangible material like the letter, but the overall idea, communicated from the start, was to produce a sort of reintroduction to Rancière's thought, for myself and an intended audience similarly comprised of those who know the least about his work and those who know the most. How that might be accomplished was twofold. Questions could be posed somewhat sequentially, as if in an outline form, moving from concept to the concrete. At the same time, questions and included examples could be put, now and again, into clarifying juxtapositions with other theorists that we too seldom see. For instance, the interview begins with a critical first-step or positioning in Rancière's oeuvre: a departure from that big Other framework which has for so long grounded and structured much of our theoretical discourses. Yet how does one abandon not the (small) other or difference but constant exclusion, the hidden master, body or mechanism behind it all? How might a transition or break from the big Other occur? It cannot be unrelated to whatever follows. What does follow in this case is an assumption that seems insurmountable enough: total equality. But if assuming total equality sounds reasonable, then how does one go about "ignoring inequality"? Simply disavowing inequality would only re-render some repression or Other. The interview could next turn to the subject of "resistance," [End Page 173] contra Deleuze mostly, and then to "aesthetics": a term Rancière once redefined by joining Kant with Foucault; therefore, this very pairing is inspected, before inquiring about Kant and Foucault separately. It also seemed relevant to wonder why phenomenology is generally unappealing to Rancière. The interview returns to topics like "representation" and "community," to touch on lingering debates in criticism, but the latter half narrows in on aspects of form. After probing into Rancière's description of humans as "literary animals," and assembled "blocks of speech," it was worth clarifying, what exactly is "form" for Rancière? That trajectory, towards form or appearance, leads back to matters such as noise and the letter, where the envelope could be further pushed by raising the topos of the page itself—that traditional substrate or negative space below or outside letters. Since paginal or typographical space was definitive for many of Rancière's contemporaries—not the least of which were Derrida and Lyotard, for whom such space epitomized that unpresentable Other framing the letter—it should be telling what the page presents for Rancière. In this way, the dialogue was free to wander across interlinking areas, with the hope of offering readers still more points of entry and departure. Any substance or guiding thread in the interview was of course shaped by Rancière's most unexpected engagement. His surprisingly timely and committed responses via email kept allowing for more preparation, more consideration, and his ongoing encouragement eventually led to two initial batches of questions, which later became the basis for informal discussions at his Paris home. Two more rounds of follow-up questions were also welcomed over the coming months, and, for one reason or another, every item received equal attention, which was a trait likely to leave the greatest impression. Joseph Shafer Auburn University Joseph Shafer: Perhaps the big Other can be a point of departure here. You once distinguished the formation of your own particular project, concerning terms like proletariat and emancipation, as more or less developing alongside a certain disregard for contemporary discourses that were addressing and relying on the Other. This Other may be a superstructure, power or superpower, absolute...

To Buy Green or Not to Buy Green: Do Structural Dependencies Block Ecological Responsiveness?

Despite the significant increase in interest in sustainable business practices, decisions on switching to more environmentally friendly input materials are understudied. In a conjoint experiment, we presented 267 Finnish manufacturing firms with an opportunity to acquire an alternative, more ecological input material and investigated their willingness to switch to that material. We find that in general, firms are willing to substitute their current principal input with a more ecological alternative under conditions of functional parity. However, such willingness is contingent on the firm’s value creation structures. Specifically, if the products and processes driving the firm’s value creation rely more on tangible materials (high materiality), firms anticipate higher input-switching costs, which leads to inertia and slows the adoption of alternative, environmentally friendlier inputs. However, if a firm’s value creation is driven more by intangible assets, like intellectual property and amortizable development costs, input-switching costs appear lower. Such firms not only find it easier to adopt ecological inputs but may also derive greater benefit from leveraging the positive reputation effects associated with ecological improvements. By exploring how willingness to switch to an alternative input material is constrained by organizational structures, our findings contribute to research on input substitution and theories of external influence, like demand-side research, stakeholder theory, and ecological responsiveness.

Kiwi and the Dervish: A Short History of Bosnian Settlement in New Zealand

Emigration from Bosnia-Herzegovina to New Zealand invariably affects, and often undermines, the core religious practices and affiliations of Slavic Muslims. Research suggests that most of these immigrants and refugees have subsumed a key feature of their unique Balkan heritage in order to integrate into mainstream society, the Anglo-European population in this predominantly Protestant-Christian nation in the South Pacific. My study aims to elucidate this historic phenomenon through an exploration of multiple biographies of several working class persons, within the context of the wider picture of Bosnian settlement here. This essay asks: to what degree does personal motivation appear to influence participation in the wider, shared spiritual tradition of Islam in a minority societal context? Predicated on a review of the available literature, my research suggests a complex socio-economic bricolage. Through a case study design my analysis demonstrates that most Bosnian immigrants and refugees over the twentieth century were more concerned with tangible material objectives than theological principles or goals. These results indicate that, overall, religion played less of a role in their private and public lives historically compared to Asian and African immigrants and refugees. On this basis, it is suggested that in future Muslim social and religious organisations based in Bosnia make greater efforts to liaise with their diaspora populations even at these further-most edges of the earth and provide better spiritual leadership. Further research is necessary to identify other aspects that could strengthen Bosnian Muslim culture outside Europe.

Direct Marketing against Multi-Level Marketing, Pullback and Implication

The goal of this paper is to further explain the process of direct marketing and multi-level marketing. Direct marketing is a type of advertising that uses tangible materials such as catalogs and fliers to communicate information about a particular product or service to potential customers. The information is aimed at potential customers, thereby allowing for a more accurate forecast of sales. This means a cost-effective means of advertisement to corporations or organizations with a small advertising budget. Multilevel Marketing (MLM) is, on the other hand, a technique for sales distributors to concentrate more on recruiting new members who will become sales distributors themselves. However, good recruiting is crucial for the very survival of most direct selling companies, including multi-level marketing organizations, because the viability of these entities depends on the ability to make more and more new hires to replace those who have ceased to be hired. MLM distributors may have a partnership with both their "upline" sponsor and their "downline" contractors. They often regularly cooperate through joint recruitment meetings and sales training sessions. Distributors of multi-level marketing companies foster a mixture of friendship and instrumentality in expanding networks, and the long-term incentive of these MLM chains is that, with each new individual recruited, the recruiter will receive a certain amount of money each time their downline sells something. The balance is used to pay the salaries of higher-level officials in the MLM hierarchy. “Some MLM initiatives have all the implications and characteristics of the pyramid scheme, but the MLM industry has nevertheless been allowed to continue and flourish, and this paper concludes that, while the MLM industry is controversial, it must be evaluated and assessed from a number of points of view, such as morality, culture and the country in which it is implemented.

Transforming Tangible Materials to Intangible Experiences: A Case Study of Two Escape Rooms at Wichita State University

Escape rooms are used in a myriad of ways by businesses, teachers, and public libraries. They can be a great way to encourage team building, learning, and simply having fun in a non-threatening environment. This case study presents an innovative approach to engaging students, faculty, and community by using and showcasing unique academic library collections. This empowers them to discover what the library has to offer, spark creative and scholarly discussion, and make them comfortable in a potentially intimidating space. Following some brief background information, the authors describe the development, implementation, and results, and examine the impact of two separate escape rooms they created for different events in 2018 and 2019.

Geoeconomic Order in the Asia-Pacific

Geoeconomic Order in the Asia-Pacific T.J. Pempel (bio) The Asia-Pacific is experiencing tremendous uncertainty. Past patterns and long-standing norms have become weak predictors of current regional interactions. Today’s uncertainty contrasts with two earlier, more-defined regional periods.1 A rigid Cold War bipolarity structured security and economic relations in the early years following World War II until it slowly buckled after a series of events: the United States’ defeat in the Vietnam War, China’s limited embrace of markets, and the collapse of the Soviet Union and its satellites. Crucially, geoeconomic relationships rarely bridged the yawning geostrategic gorge of bipolarity. Friends traded with friends, not with potential adversaries. A second order elided the first, distinguished by reductions in the centrality of hard security conflicts and declining military budgets, on the one hand, and deepening economic interdependence with expanded regional institutionalism transcending ideological differences, on the other. The result was a regional order marked predominantly by peace and prosperity lasting from the late 1980s into the early 21st century. Continuities from this order remain; however, the last decade has witnessed numerous birth pangs suggesting the arrival of a third order dominated by a resurgence of geopolitics, nationalism, and heightened state-to-state tensions. Most prominent among the recent changes has been the acrimonious deterioration in relations between an ever-richer and more militarily assertive China and an economically wobbling and militarily drained United States. Predictions proliferate of a gladiatorial contest marked by xenophobic salvoes, economic decoupling, techno-nationalism, mutual provocations, and the menacing whirlpool of military conflict.2 Saori Katada’s new book Japan’s New Regional Reality: Geoeconomic Strategy in the Asia-Pacific advances an overarching argument about [End Page 134] Japan’s geoeconomic efforts during the second and third of these orders. During the first and early second order, when the United States and Japan held the preponderance of regional economic power, Tokyo pursued what Katada labels its “old-style regional geoeconomic strategy” (p. 16). This strategy was a product of the country’s bilateral predisposition and domestic mercantilism. Since the late 1990s, as China added muscle and Japanese vigor flagged, the old strategy has been jettisoned in favor of a new, state-led, and liberal strategy anchored in “regionalism as its structure, formal rules and institution building as its mode of engagement, and the promotion of liberal global standards as the underlying values” (p. 20). Recent top-down government initiatives make this new strategy “state-led,” and while “liberal,” it is less about the ideological embrace of free-market fundamentalism than the advance of rules-based standards advancing competitive markets (p. 20). Not at all coincidentally, such standards are highly beneficial to Japan’s most sophisticated global companies. The book is compelling in its nuanced advance of this core argument, four elements of which, in my estimation, deserve to be highlighted here. First, the book’s emphasis on geoeconomics resonates with the overwhelming attention that most Asian governments devote to their national economies as integral components of national security. Leaders in these countries remain largely convinced that their continued legitimacy depends on delivering tangible material benefits to their citizens. Since the economies of most Asian states are deeply enmeshed in regional production networks and complex supply lines, none are eager to confront a Hobson’s choice between hard security and continued economic interdependence. Such a choice might be pressed on them should China and the United States advance toward existential competition with the demand that other regional actors choose sides. Second, the book is compelling in its treatment of the interactions between Japan’s domestic political economy and its efforts to respond to alterations in regional economics. The complicated weavings of embedded mercantilism that defined Japan’s domestic political economy until the mid-1990s unraveled due to the restructuring of government agencies, financial reforms, enhanced political intervention by policymakers on behalf of the economy’s least-competitive sectors, and globalized businesses that were no longer tethered to state largess or bank loans. These new domestic arrangements altered Japan’s responses to the changing regional environment. Although Katada is not explicit about causality, my reading is that both shifting regional conditions and a...

Brick: sustainability through policy

ABSTRACT The brick has become a remarkable political symbol with the laying of the silver brick in Ayodhya, India, recently. A tangible material in this whole exercise; the humble, everyday ‘brick’became the symbol of nationalism. While this building material holds such a shiny political campaign in the form of a silver brick today, the on-ground situation of brick kilns is rather grim, which exploits labour and deteriorates the environment. To change this scenario there needs to be change in policy that includes an array of solutions for brick making, including Stabilised Compressed Earth Blocks, adobe etc. To keep a check on these ecological imbalances, firstly at policy level intervention, the government should initiate decentralised, smaller and regional production systems instead of global chains. Secondly, alternate construction materials should be made mainstream, and an array of innovative local technologies should be incorporated instead of propagating one chief solution, universally, for brick production. Absence of environmental emission policies and regulatory enforcement leave no incentive for brick manufacturers to adopt less polluting industries and the added lack of policies that address the demand-side issues, even though appropriate technologies may be present, make it worse. There is an urgent need to revamp the brick industry of the world, especially in the emerging economies where the next decades will see exponential growth.

How is the European integration debate changing in post-communist states ?

To many citizens in post-communist states European Union (EU) membership represented a historical–civilisational choice: an end to the Cold War division of Europe and symbolic reuniting of Eastern Europe with a ‘West’ that they had always considered themselves to be part of culturally and spiritually. In fact, in spite of its multiple crises, there continued to be high levels of support for EU membership and ‘Hard’ rejectionist Eurosceptic discourses were confined to the margins of politics. However, the increasing sense of East European cultural distinctiveness, highlighted by the post-communist states’ responses to the European migration crisis, meant that pro-EU discourses were less romantic and more instrumental, driven increasingly by a cost–benefit analysis based on an evaluation of the tangible material benefits that the Union was felt to deliver.

Particularity and Proliferation of Stroboscopic Elements in the Visual, Performing and Cinematographic Arts

Abstract In the work “Art and Visual Perception. A Psychology of the Author’s Creative Vision” by Rudolf Arnheim, following some researches/studies of Gestalt psychology applied in the field of visual arts and/or cinematography, the author states: “It is unlikely that any stroboscopic “short-circuit” will occur as long as objects appear on the screen at a sufficient distance from each other.” An observer-spectator only pays attention to what he/she receives. A speedy stream indicates unity. It is precisely for that reason that the vehement and effective ways are indispensable in order to render indisputably the intermittency-discontinuity. The stroboscopic dynamics overlooks the physical source of the visual tangible material. In that case, the visual identity does not start to be problematic as long as an element-object keeps staying in the same place without any inversion or transposition of its appearance - for example: the video camera that does not change its position but registers the building. For the same reason, we have the actor/actress who crosses the screen keeping his/her con-similarity (just walking down the path) without substantially changing his/her size or shape. The nature of the issues only appears under visual circumstances when they invoke/guide where it does not exist or vice versa. Alexander Archipenko (1887-1964): “In order to perform the movement, static painting must resort to symbols and conventions. It did not go beyond fixing a single “moment” in the sequence of moments that make up a movement; all other “moments” before and beyond the fixed movement are left to the imagination and fantasy of the spectator.”

Beyond Wiindigo Infrastructure

Infrastructure has long been central to the destruction of Indigenous life and the making of settler colonial futurity. Infrastructure constitutes the body of the Wiindigo—the beast of Anishinaabe legend. Roads and rails, pipelines and dams, prisons and borders have all worked to carve up Turtle Island into preserves of settler jurisdiction, while entrenching and hardening the very means of settler economy and sociality into tangible material structures. Yet infrastructure is not inherently violent—it is also essential for transformation; a pipe can carry fresh water as well as toxic sludge. In this paper we suggest that effective initiatives for justice, decolonization, and planetary survival must center infrastructure in their efforts, and we explore how Indigenous stories can help us envision and walk a different path. Drawing on our distinct work in communities, classrooms, court houses and city streets, we insist that our collective futures hinge on remaking socio-technical systems—on building beyond Wiindigo infrastructure.