Entangled
Mapping Structural Transitions
Historically, elemental forces were experienced as visible and shared presences within everyday life.
The hearth functioned as both a practical necessity and a social and symbolic centre.
With the development of modern technologies, these forces became enclosed within technical devices and redistributed through complex networks.
What was once directly perceptible gradually shifted into the background, embedded in infrastructures designed to operate invisibly.
This transformation has introduced a growing distance between individuals and the systems that sustain daily life.
Domestic infrastructure now operates as a hidden framework that organises access to resources while shaping perceptions of control, safety, and comfort.
In the current moment of ecological, technological, and political transition, these systems continue to evolve, both reflecting and structuring broader transformations.
They operate as interfaces through which large-scale processes become embedded in everyday life, connecting material infrastructures with more abstract layers of organisation.
The diagrams presented here trace these transformations as a process.
They map how infrastructural systems evolve through successive layers, transforming direct engagement with resources into mediated forms of access.
/ Energy diagram
Traces the development of domestic energy systems
/ Water diagram
Traces the development of domestic water infrastructure.
These diagrams follow a shared structural logic.
Each diagram is organised through a set of layers: energy source, extraction or production, technological layer, infrastructure or network, organisational layer, and interface.
Together, they describe how access to a resource becomes progressively structured.
The system develops cumulatively: once a layer or component appears, it remains part of the system and contributes to its growing complexity.
Only elements that mediate the relationship between human and resource are included, focusing the diagram on modes of access rather than on the resource itself.
Colored markers indicate the presence and expansion of components within each layer, while the legend highlights newly emerging elements at each stage.
The timeline begins with the emergence of organised access to a resource, marking the transition from direct interaction to infrastructural structuring.
The diagrams establish a framework for understanding how infrastructures shape and organise access to resources.