Developing renewable energy in discontiguous Greenland: an infrastructural urbanism of ‘material practices’

Infrastructural Urbanism’s advocacy of creating synergies between technological, economical, and ecological processes holds great potential for guiding domestic energy planning in a transforming Greenland. However, the movement has largely been conceived in the context of regional paradigms very different from Greenland, and has yet to fully engage with the sociocultural dimensions of infrastructures. This article proposes that for Infrastructural Urbanism to offer real potential in Greenland it must engage with micro-scale, everyday material practices, thereby thickening the scale and the scope of the synergistic relationships it promotes. It aims to contribute an alternative reading of Infrastructural Urbanism, arguing that incorporating and reinterpreting existing material practices through a network of interventions in the urban realm is a necessary interpretation of the theory in Greenland, and one that has potential in other regions.