We build this city on rocks and (feminist) code: hacking corporate computational designs of cities to come
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in: Digital Creativity, Jahrgang 34, Nr. 2, 24.07.2023, S. 162-177.
Publikation: Beiträge in Zeitschriften › Zeitschriftenaufsätze › Forschung › begutachtet
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T1 - We build this city on rocks and (feminist) code
T2 - hacking corporate computational designs of cities to come
AU - Voigt, Maja-Lee
N1 - Publisher Copyright: © 2023 Informa UK Limited, trading as Taylor & Francis Group.
PY - 2023/7/24
Y1 - 2023/7/24
N2 - Cities have long become interspaces, entangled in materialities and virtual worlds. However, as urban automation advances in cities increasingly made ‘smarter’, everyday processes are often controlled by oppressive standards hardcoded into technologies. Publicly neutralized as ‘objective’, corporately owned algorithmic architectures now function as urban gatekeepers. They determine social participation, possibilities of space appropriation on- and offline, and access to (social) infrastructures. Following five months of qualitative research on hacking and other tech-practices by German-speaking cyberfeminist collectives in 2021, my paper portrays their refusal of black-boxed, profitable, and biased technologies of classification. I argue that feminist hackspaces are important urban co-creators in digitized cities to come. They offer infrastructures to increase access to interfaces, (cyber-)spaces, and decision-making processes by sharing their tech-knowledge and tools. Their activism demonstrates how (urban) hacking is a crucial practice to break with non-democratically controlled digitalization processes: in favour of a city for all.
AB - Cities have long become interspaces, entangled in materialities and virtual worlds. However, as urban automation advances in cities increasingly made ‘smarter’, everyday processes are often controlled by oppressive standards hardcoded into technologies. Publicly neutralized as ‘objective’, corporately owned algorithmic architectures now function as urban gatekeepers. They determine social participation, possibilities of space appropriation on- and offline, and access to (social) infrastructures. Following five months of qualitative research on hacking and other tech-practices by German-speaking cyberfeminist collectives in 2021, my paper portrays their refusal of black-boxed, profitable, and biased technologies of classification. I argue that feminist hackspaces are important urban co-creators in digitized cities to come. They offer infrastructures to increase access to interfaces, (cyber-)spaces, and decision-making processes by sharing their tech-knowledge and tools. Their activism demonstrates how (urban) hacking is a crucial practice to break with non-democratically controlled digitalization processes: in favour of a city for all.
KW - Construction engineering and architecture
KW - Stadtentwicklung
KW - smart city
KW - urban design
KW - Gender and Diversity
KW - hacking
KW - feminism
KW - gender
KW - ferminism
KW - Culture and Space
KW - Stadtforschung
KW - hacking
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U2 - 10.1080/14626268.2023.2205406
DO - 10.1080/14626268.2023.2205406
M3 - Journal articles
VL - 34
SP - 162
EP - 177
JO - Digital Creativity
JF - Digital Creativity
SN - 1462-6268
IS - 2
ER -