Routine Infrastructuring

A concept developed by Bryan Semaan describing community practices through which marginalised and oppressed groups continually reconfigure sociotechnical arrangements to sustain everyday life under persistent disruption. Unlike classical infrastructuring, which treats disruption as exceptional, routine infrastructuring recognises that for war survivors, diasporic communities, neurodivergent TikTok users, and disabled students, breakdowns are an ordinary condition of existence that demand ongoing collective work. It is an increasingly influential frame in accessibility and CSCW research on how disabled communities build and maintain care infrastructure.