Exploring Intellectual Infrastructures
Intellectual Infrastructures is research branch under the concept of Meta-thinking, or thinking about thinking, as part of understanding the many inputs that affect how we think. 

The writings aim to explore the practice of architecting intellectual infrastructures, which we define as the structure of knowledge that humans and organizations create and maintain. These structures could be mental, physical, or digital. In order to explore, we’ll assume the identity of a phenomenologist as much as we can. 

With the cosmos,
Norman 


Table of contents
  1. Updates
  1. Notions
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Updates

From the [research department] of Teal Process & Company
Researcher
Date
Notes
Yatu
02-10.2020
Norman
02-08.2020
Cleaned up the Overview at the beginning of this doc to try and clarify the relationship between meta-thinking and int. infra. 
Yatu
02-03.2020
Bought Candide No. 6: Journal for Architectural Knowledge book on 01-08.2020 for reference and inspiration.

Still letting this concept marinate. 
Norman
02-02.2020
Visited the Potrero Hill, SF library for the first time. Typed and thought in front of a wonderful large window with an evergreen waving hello outside. 

Very excited about the potential depth of this topic in both theory and praxis. Wondering how we might put a call out to find those that are currently thinking about it. 

  • Created the base layout for this document 
  • Created an are.na channel 
  • Did some quick google searches for “intellectual infrastructure” 
  • Started documenting some references 


Research


Who’s researched and written about how people structure their intellectual infrastructures? 


Infrastructure: The Social Value of Shared Resources
  • It begins in Section A with the idea of the cultural environment as infrastructure. Section B describes the economic characteristics of intellectual resources. Section C focuses on applying the infrastructure criteria to delineate intellectual infrastructure. Section D considers intellectual property laws. (Abstract)
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Intellectual Infrastructure (the art of successful delegation) 
  • ultimately it is the cumulative consequence of the decisions the team makes and the effect of the questions the team failed to ask that determines how a project unfolds. (pg 1)

Defines intellectual infrastructure as:
  • The processes an organization uses for attaining, creating and maintaining expertise and the knowledge upon which it is based. (pg 2)
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