hangplek
The Dutch Hangplek and the Governance of Mischief
Communities keep asking why teenagers misbehave in malls. The Dutch hangplek answers why adolescent mischief needs legitimate civic infrastructure containers to prevent disorder.
infrastructure
essays
The Three Regimes of System Failure
Public failures get framed as scandal, incompetence, or corruption. Often true, but analytically lazy. I use three stories, disinfectants, potholes, and Flint water, to show how verification fails in distinct regimes, and why fixes miss when they target the wrong one.
systems
Capability Drift in Public Infrastructure
Michigan’s roads reveal what happens when public expertise migrates out and systems lose the capacity to correct themselves. They did not fail by accident or climate alone. They deteriorated as public expertise migrated, oversight weakened, and the system lost the ability to enforce quality.
Systems and Soul
Flow Diagrams
Compressed system maps showing how incentives, signals, and structures move through human systems. Grounded in Convivial Systems Theory. Curated as they emerged.
SIA
SYSTEMS IN ACTION · Why LED Speed Signs Create New Hazards
Tennessee’s new LED speed-limit signs were meant to modernize safety. Instead, they break long-established cue structures and misalign with human perception, creating new hazards. A look at how dynamic interfaces fail when behavior and context remain static.