Lloveras defines infrastructure less as a technical substrate than as the integration operation that makes a distributed knowledge system persist. Repositories, archives, identifiers, metadata, governance rules, websites and institutional frameworks matter because they bind heterogeneous layers into an environment capable of surviving platform decay, format obsolescence and organisational discontinuity. The conceptual operation is therefore synthetic rather than additive: infrastructure does not sit beneath other components as neutral support but establishes the conditions under which structure, validation, mediation, territory, growth and circulation remain mutually addressable over time. Its protocol—deposit, identify, archive, govern, monitor—translates a theoretical claim into maintenance practice, making persistence measurable through redundancy, versioning and citational stability. The work bridges infrastructure studies, archival theory and knowledge organisation by treating continuity as an actively produced relation. Its wider significance lies in shifting attention from the creation of isolated objects to the institutional and technical work through which objects remain findable, governable, comparable and reusable.
URBANISM MEETS ART