At the critical infrastructure lab, we research power and contestation in communication infrastructures. The critical infrastructure lab aims to co-develop alternative infrastructural futures that center people and planet over capital and control. We develop research insights, policy recommendations, and build a community around three overlapping areas: geopolitics, standards, and environment. /// ]LAG( is a hacklab located in the Binnenpret in Amsterdam. It is inhabited by a heterogeneity of people, tools, and practices that question our relation to technology and our interaction with specific technologies. ]LAG( has no members, it is run by a loose collective of frequent and less frequent visitors and financed through donations and benefits.