As we develop new frameworks for understanding the ways that digital and social infrastructure overlap and rely on one another, it’s important to make sure we understand how new and emerging technologies impact all areas of everyday life.
In a world that’s shaped by widespread, technology-driven change, many conversations tend to be dominated by whatever is most groundbreaking. But what can we do to ensure those innovations are built to be resilient and long-lasting?
While the upheaval of the last year has been persistent and far reaching, our years of experience navigating uncertainty have served us well, and set us up to engage with new challenges while continuing to address the long term societal changes that define our work.
Jennifer Bradley of the Aspen Institute has compiled a series of key guidelines and priorities for implementing our vision for multidimensional infrastructure in real world contexts. Read the first key insight below, and to see the second two, read the full post on Aspen's website.
By pursuing work that so clearly illustrates the ties between the built environment and social and economic outcomes, MASS Design’s strategic mindset is implicitly aware of the social, physical, and technological factors that inform multidimensional infrastructure.
To ensure small towns can recover, funders and policymakers must aggressively pilot innovative solutions, with an eye towards scaling successes across similar regions, that help build a new paradigm for geographically inclusive growth.
CORI recently released the first installment of their video series “The Rural Edge,” highlighting leaders who love the communities where they live, and want to help more people access and participate in the innovation economy.
The Regional Plan Association is creating actionable policy reports that highlight how critical multidimensional infrastructure is to unlocking greater, more equitable impact for all.
Siegel Family Endowment and Aspen Digital convened researchers, local leaders and policymakers, funders, and representatives of the private sector to discuss our new framework for multidimensional infrastructure.
Executive Director Katy Knight appeared on Homeroom with Sal Khan to discuss key findings from our whitepaper on multidimensional infrastructure, her own personal career pathway into philanthropy, and more.
Today Siegel Family Endowment, which provides support to organizations working at the intersections of learning, workforce, and infrastructure, releases a white paper detailing a new multidimensional infrastructure framework.
Over the past two years of research and conversations with partners across the field, we’ve realized that our nation’s infrastructure is due for a reset.