Minneapolis 2025

In advance of the International Society of Sustainable Systems and Technology (ISSST) the third Infrastructure in the Anthropocene workshop was held on Sunday, June 15, 2025 in Minneapolis, Minnesota, at the University of Minnesota.

Mikhail Chester (Arizona State University)

Masahiko Haraguchi (Columbia University)

Alysha Helmrich (University of Georgia)

Eleanor Hennessy (Arizona State University)

Daniel Hoornweg (Ontario Tech University)

Alex Huang (New York University)

Samuel Markolf (University of California Merced)

Reed Miller (University of Maine)

Mattheus Porto (Arizona State University)

Rob Wolfinbarger (Arizona State University)

Toronto 2020

The second conference was organized by Shoshanna Saxe (University of Toronto) and took place in Toronto, Ontario, Canada in February 2020.

Outcomes from the conference will be provided in February 2020.

The second conference was organized by Shoshanna Saxe (University of Toronto) and invited participants included Mikhail Chester (Arizona State University), Matthew Eckelman (Northeastern University), Margaret Garcia (Arizona State University), Daniel Hoornweg (University of Toronto), Kristen MacAskill (University of Cambridge), Edward Oughton (University of Oxford), Costa Samaras (Carnegie Mellon University, and Kelly Sanders (University of Southern California).

Phoenix 2019

The first Infrastructure Complexity conference was organized by Mikhail Chester (Arizona State University) and took place in Phoenix, Arizona, USA in March 2019.

At the first conference the participants focused on several emerging challenges and the ways in which a society could be structured to help address the challenges. Several themes emerged including complexity theory, emerging and disruptive technologies, and climate change.

The first conference was organized by Mikhail Chester (Arizona State University) and invited participants included Braden Allenby (Arizona State University), Sybil Derrible (University of Illinois Chicago), Margaret Garcia (Arizona State University), Costa Samaras (Carnegie Mellon University), and Shoshanna Saxe (University of Toronto).