This paper introduces" infrastructural speculations," an orientation toward speculative
design that considers the complex and long-lived relationships of technologies with broader
systems, beyond moments of immediate invention and design. As modes of speculation are
increasingly used to interrogate questions of broad societal concern, it is pertinent to
develop an orientation that foregrounds the" lifeworld" of artifacts-the social, perceptual, and
political environment in which they exist. While speculative designs often imply a lifeworld …