Deb Chachra, author of How Infrastructure Works: Inside the Systems That Shape Our World (2023), and Professor of Engineering at Olin College of Engineering, presents the seventh annual Lucas J. Daniel Lecture in Sustainable Systems at the Institute of Design.

Deb Chachra’s talk, “Just, Creative, and Cooperative: Our Shared Infrastructural Future,” will consider how our infrastructural networks, including electricity, water and sewage, telecommunications, and transportation, shape and enable our lives as we know them. The networks that we benefit from today are the physical embodiment of the values of those who came before us. Today, with new possibilities of renewable energy generation at scale, we have the opportunity to transform these systems—and our built environment—to be reliable and sustainable, resilient and equitable.

Date and time: April 8, 6–8 p.m. CST
In person or streaming:
Location: Institute of Design, on Illinois Tech Mies campus

A Q&A with ID faculty member Jessica Meharry will follow the talk.

To register for the event, please go here.