This paper explores the interconnections between built, social, biotic, and health processes, focusing on the built environment's moderating roles. It diagnoses failures in COVID-19 representational infrastructure and practice in accounting for built environment and social process impacts on public health. Three problems with scientific representation in COVID-19 modeling and data-gathering are presented: missing data, idealized measurement outcomes, and shallow surrogate measures. The paper then proposes a relation-based framework, utilizing concepts like 'context', 'nudge', 'affordance', and 'interface', to represent the built environment not as discrete variables but as an interface reorganizing causal landscapes. It emphasizes visualizing this interface in multidimensional form and highlights the importance of community participation in representation.

Hannah Howland, Vadim Keyser