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

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