This domain applies the IR5 Human Compatibility Framework to infrastructure, urban development, smart systems, public-private projects, and other large-scale interventions that shape the conditions of everyday life. These are projects that often carry high budgets, long timelines, and deep structural consequences. Once implemented, they are usually difficult to reverse.

 

The framework does not change. What changes is the scale and the kind of consequences involved. In this domain, we begin by asking who is affected directly and indirectly, what becomes locked in, where power sits, and how communities can meaningfully influence or contest the project. We then apply the same IR5 logic used across all domains: refusal patterns first, core compatibility dimensions second, and structured human judgment throughout. This allows us to evaluate not only whether a project is feasible or efficient, but whether it remains compatible with the humans who must live inside its effects for years or decades.

 

What makes this domain specific is the kind of risks it brings into focus. Large developments can become incompatible through displacement, forced adaptation, hidden governance, unequal distribution of benefits and burdens, loss of exit, or surveillance embedded into everyday space. A project may appear visionary while quietly weakening local capability, public trust, or community autonomy. For that reason, this module pays particular attention to livability, irreversibility, burden distribution, accountability, and long-term governance.

 

IR5 uses this domain to help evaluate developments before incompatibility becomes physically, politically, or socially entrenched.