Sara Skardelly presents at the Anticipatory Infrastructures Symposium
From 23–24 February 2026, Sara Skardelly from the subproject “Health: Caring through ComAI”, took part in “Anticipatory Infrastructures”, a two-day symposium held at Monash University in Melbourne. The event was hosted by the Emerging Technologies Lab (Monash University) and co-organised by the Academy of Mobility Humanities (Konkuk University).
The symposium brought together social science, arts and humanities researchers who engage with the concept of anticipatory infrastructures, which is based on the idea that almost all infrastructures are both anticipatory and anticipated. Infrastructures anticipate making something possible, such as new data. At the same time, they are highly anticipated, loaded with promise and expectation as (infra)structures of feeling that almost hardwire anticipatory potential. Infrastructures also mediate temporalities through their material legacies, which in turn shape the affordances around which futures are anticipated.
In line with this focus, Sara joined a panel on care and presented a draft paper that she is co-authoring with Juliane Jarke, titled ” ‘Communicative AI as Anticipatory Infrastructures of Care Futures’.
6. May 2026
Contact:
Prof. Dr. Andreas Hepp
ZeMKI, Center for Media, Communication and Information Research
University of Bremen
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E-mail: andreas.hepp@uni-bremen.de
