Digital Urbanism, from the Grassroots

Season 8: Alternative Digital Economy and PlatformCoop: a conversation with Ela Kagel

Ela Kagel is co-founder and managing director of SUPERMARKT, Alternative Digital Economy and PlatformCoop. She is also an artistic director of MoneyLab Berlin and board member of Platform Cooperatives Germany eG. Some Notes: -Model Project of Haus der Statistik https://hausderstatistik.org -Food delivery cooperative of Khora: https://www.facebook.com/watch/?v=1080269936143859 -DisCo.coop https://www.disco.coop Image courtesy: Ela Kagel Music Credit: "Negaram" by Golnar&Mahan

Episode 7, Feminist Hack Space: Heart of Code, with Marie Kochsiek

About: The Heart of Code is a FLINTA* space for technology-loving women (trans and cis), trans* and non-binary people to access information technologies, tools and content, and thus make the hacking community and tech landscape more diverse in the long term. -Maria’s current project: The menstrual cycle tracking app called “drip.” -You can find the pictures of Zin making and Wooden Half dome that have been built by ‘Heart of Coders’ in Instagram account of this podcast: @grassroots-digital-urbanism. Music Credit: "Negaram" by Golnar&Mahan

Episode 5, From Urban Experimenting to Digital Sovereignty in Berlin, with Elizabeth Calderon Lüning

In conversation with Elizabeth Calderon Lüning: https://www.drlab.org/team/elizabeth-calderon-luning/ The Urban Gardening project of Prinzessinnengarten https://prinzessinnengarten.net/about/ The Neighborhood Academy(Knowledge Commoning) https://nachbarschaftsakademie.org/en/about/ Mazi project in Berlin: (Practicing community sovereignty over digital infrastructure) https://mazizone.net/mazi-eu/pilot-studies/neighborhood-academy/ The Digital City Alliance Berlin: https://digitalesberlin.info/en/about-the-digital-city-alliance-berlin/

Episode 4_ Urban Hack and Informal Housing in Sydney, a conversation with Dr Sophia Maalsen

At the intersections of the digitalisation of urban spaces and governance, with feminist-housing, Dr Sophia Maalsen brings forth several questions in this episode: 1-What is hack as an urban practice and politic in the digitally augmented city? 2- Who is using urban hacks and how do they do it in digital everyday life? 3-And How have these experiments and practices opened new ways of seeing or thinking about the housing problem in Sydney? Dr Sophia Maalsen is a senior lecturer in the School of Architecture, Design and Planning at the University of Sydney. https://www.sydney.edu.au/architecture/about/our-people/academic-staff/sophia.maalsen.html Main papers that have been discussed in this episode: The hack: What it is and why it matters to urban studies (sagepub.com) Smart housing_ the political and market responses of the intersections between housing, new sharing economies and smart cities | Elsevier Enhanced Reader Hacking housing: theorising housing from the minor (tandfonline.com) Sophia Maalsen keynote at the Beyond Smart Cities Today conference, Sweden, June 2022 - YouTube Please write to us if you have any suggestion or tips: niloufar.vadiati@gmail.com

Episode 3_Technological Sovereignty Movement in Barcelona, a conversation with Casey Lynch

Technological Sovereignty Movement in Barcelona, a conversation with Casey Lynch on alternative digital future, digital commons and the Glitch About Dr. Casey Lynch: https://people.utwente.nl/c.r.lynch His publication that we discussed about in this episode: -Contesting Digital Futures: Urban Politics, Alternative Economies, and the Movement for Technological Sovereignty in Barcelona https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/anti.12522?saml_referrer -Internet infrastructure and the commons: grassroots knowledge sharing in Barcelona https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/pdf/10.1080/00343404.2020.1869200?casa_token=6vDKmZkb1SQAAAAA:hIQVh-wNhZvRhYXw_hKoDMSDlaasSnEYE1MCcd-kO1ZQM5z4w5h_MrXxjax_vm3QWQL19aDKc-S8 -Glitch Epistemology and the Question of (Artificial) Intelligence: Perceptions, Encounters, Subjectivities https://ris.utwente.nl/ws/portalfiles/portal/285086564/20438206221102952.pdf Other references that have been discussed -Race after Technology by Ruha Benjamin https://www.bklynlibrary.org/sites/default/files/documents/BOOK%20CLUB%20KITS/RACE%20AFTER%20TECH_BKLYN%20BOOK%20CLUB%20KIT_REV.pdf -Glitch epistemologies for computational cities https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/pdf/10.1177/20438206221075714 Initiatives and Projects in Barcelona Guifi Net https://guifi.net/barcelona https://www.researchgate.net/publication/280720388_Guifinet_a_crowdsourced_network_infrastructure_held_in_common Fab lab of :The Ateneus de Fabricació https://ajuntament.barcelona.cat/ateneusdefabricacio/en/ The Congress of Technological Sovereignty https://sobtec.cat Technological cooperative for social transformation. https://colectic.coop