AIM Framework glossary
Intrinsic Infrastructure (I-infrastructure)
Canonical definition
Intrinsic Infrastructure (I-infrastructure) consists of the material, institutional, and digital systems that make I-domains possible, buildings, funding rules, legal protections, and tools that lower the cost of I-pursuits and insulate them from A-coercion and toxic M-pressures.
Explanation
Libraries, housing, public makerspaces, basic research funding, non-surveillance learning platforms, and rehearsal spaces are examples of I-infrastructure. Their point is to make it easy and safe for people to start and sustain intrinsically meaningful activities, without these spaces turning into winner-takes-all status games.
Epistemic status
Framework-Specific Construct.