Niloufar Vadiati

📣 A new issue by Urban Matters journal: Digital Platforms as Urban Infrastructure?

The brilliant work of our authors, showing in different ways how platforms increasingly operate as socio-technical infrastructures shaping urban life, governance, care, housing, and knowledge production.

Read the full issue here: https://lnkd.in/eAK5EuzX

#DigitalPlatforms #PlatformUrbanism #DigitalGeography #UrbanStudies #Infrastructure

‘Kiez being (de)Codified’ – I’m presenting on April 10 at Humboldt Uni (online too), with @criticaldatalab@mastodon.social and @kontratanz@tldr.nettime.org. Wrapping up my research on Grassroots Digital Urbanism in Berlin, I’ll explore praxes that have spatially refused the fixing narratives of technology in the city.

📢Glad that our paper is finally out! #urban_air_mobility from the lens of economic geography, published by @ProgEconGeo with Tim Fraske and Filipe Mello Rose: "Legitimation strategies in emerging ecosystems: The case of advanced air mobility in Hamburg". https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2949694224000191?via%3Dihub

📢 Join us tomorrow at the session of 'Emerging Work in Feminist Digital Geography' at RGS Conference 2024! On behalf of my dear colleagues Letizia Chiappini and @martini@vis.social, I present our recent paper titled "(En) coding Care into Digital Urbanism". #RGSIBG24

📢My dear colleague Nassim Mehran and I are glad to share our recent (first) article about the practice of urban development under the Islamic Republic in Iranian cities. It took more from us than we could imagine! Excited that is out now!#KinCity24
https://berlinergazette.de/cities-in-custody/

Shall we talk about what Middle Eastern cities and researchers working with them are going through these days? My dear colleague, @Nassimejonub@mastodon.social and I are organising a panel titled, "The Spatiality of Care in Resisting/Survival Cities: On The Interface of Digital and Material Space" at @rc21 in Santiago de Chile.
https://rc21conference2024.coes.cl/panel-72/

Warm invitation to submit your abstract to the panel on "Platforms as Urban Infrastructure: The Question of Governance and Alternatives to Current Models” that my dear colleague @Nicopalacios and I have co-organised for the @rc21in Santiago de Chile on July 24-26, 2024.