What is it really like to be a rider in the city? Laura Carrer, freelance journalist on tech and its implications for digital and human rights, and Luca Quagliato, freelance video maker and photographer who previously worked as a rider, explore this theme in an upcoming documentary, which will include footage of riders explaining their reality across Europe and an animation depicting the experience of being a rider.

The film will be released early next year on IRPI Media, an Italian investigation news room which has published a series of investigations on platform work in Italy in it’s ‘Life is a Game’ series.

In this podcast, Ben Wray, co-ordinator of the Gig Economy Project, met with the two Milanese in Berlin, one of five European cities where they have been filming riders.

They discuss:

01:08: Why food delivery?

04:58: The reality of food delivery in Italy

12:08: What they learnt from speaking to riders all across Europe

16:22: The animation part of the documentary, gamification and the role of riders in the city

25:57: How can people see the documentary?