The session explores how CEE infrastructures affect, determine or co-produce human-non-human interactions and how those interactions are intertwined in the course of infrastructures’ conception, production, perception or operation. Non-human actants play a crucial, though underestimated role in making social sense of infrastructures. Looking into multiple processes of planning, policy-decision making as well as public contestation, we observe non-human actors as crucial vehicles shaping common perceptions of material environments.
Thus, we would like to assess how material artefacts move along infrastructures, and how the non-human entities construct experiences and perceptions. This includes the material ‘hardware’, such as roadways and vehicles, but also trajectories and flows, smells and sights, as well as other non-human actants such as animals, viruses, and smartphones. Contributions might include but are not limited to the mobility of material artefacts, contestations, networks, business models, or the connected modernisation paradigms and underlying normativities.