Johanna Rivano Eckerdal & Lisa Engström, Infrastructuring the Social: Public Libraries and their Transformative Capacity in Austerity Urbanism.

A joint presentation by the ILIT international research group that are working with the research project . ILIT investigates the (in)formal practices (or ‘infrastructuring’) that library staff, patrons, policy-makers and other stakeholders employ to provide, perform and maintain public libraries as important socio-cultural infrastructures, particularly in Austrian, Dutch, and Swedish communities that struggle with systemic challenges such as unemployment, loneliness and segregation.