There's been much recent interest in "making visible the invisible," in manifesting the "optics" of subterranean, covert, and seemingly immaterial infrastructures. In this talk, I begin by addressing what we can learn about urban infrastructure by engaging it with our "other" senses – by listening to it, touching it, even smelling and tasting it. I then examine how these aesthetics "scale down" by examining infrastructure of a smaller dimension: that of furniture. I share some preliminary case studies from my current research on "intellectual furnishings," which explores how the design of our media-organizational devices – from book stacks to computer server racks – scaffolds our media technologies, informs how bodies relate to those media, and embodies knowledge. These infrastructures, both physical and intellectual, are also simultaneously functional, affective and aesthetic.