getting some lovely blue-sky Realtalk energy from this piece on 'infrastructuring' Design Things and Design Thinking: Contemporary Participatory Design Challenges Erling Bjögvinsson, Pelle Ehn, Per-Anders Hillgren 2012 http://www.gobigcreativelab.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/01/Contemporary-Design-Thinking-Challenges.pdf

An infrastructure (e.g., railroad tracks, cables, or the Internet) reaches beyond the single event (temporal) and the site event (spatial); it does not need to be reinvented every time; and it is embedded into other socio-material structures. However, the infrastructure also is accessible only by participation in specific practices. [...] it is relational and becomes infrastructure in the relationships between design Things at project time and (multiple, potentially controversial) design Things in use.