The Infrastructures of Sufficiency: Tracing a New Material Order

Faced with converging and alarming processes such as ecological upheaval, rising energy demand, and geopolitical tensions over natural resources, it is imperative to identify and explore alternative pathways that demonstrate a resource-sensitive approach. The infrastructure supporting basic provisioning systems–such as energy, food, and mobility–is increasingly subject to these pressures, raising questions about their design, management, and even their continued existence. Through comparative case studies in Norway, Sweden, and France, this collaboration provides analytical tools to better understand the existence and potential of sufficiency infrastructures, their various modalities, and the challenges associated with their implementation, whether arising from social practices or policy design.

Project coordinator

• Marius Korsnes is an associate professor in Science, Technology and Society (STS) at the Department for Interdisciplinary Studies of Culture at the Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU) in Trondheim.

Network members

France

• Claire Le Renard is a research scientist at the Laboratoire Techniques, Territoires Sociétés (ENPC, CNRS, Gustave Eiffel University), situated East of Paris.

Sweden

• Alexander Paulsson (PhD) works as an associate professor at the School of Economics and Management at Lund University.