Amulets for Infrastructure is a project that explores residents’ relationships to urban and industrial infrastructure in the city of Sudbury (Canada). The project is a humble acknowledgment that our planet is full of dynamic and powerful forces, which even our best technology and knowledge can fail to predict, prepare for and protect against. When faced with the limits of our knowledge and capacity to plan all we can do is hope that our infrastructure withstands the events of the future. An amulet for infrastructure is a manifestation both of an awareness of our limits and of hopes for how events of the future will unfold.

Amulets for Infrastructure was created in collaboration with the Brooklyn, New York, based smudge studio (Jamie Kruse and Elizabeth Ellsworth) who created a version of the project for Kyoto, Japan.