Series of events - Platform Urbanism: Data Commons, Citizen Contestation and the Governance of Cities

A series of events, the StadsSalonsUrbains on 'Platform Urbanism: Data Commons, Citizen Contestation and the Governance of Cities' will take place during this academic year, always on Friday evenings, at Beurscafé and Kaaistudio's. The events are co-organised by LSTS through the Brussels Centre for Urban Studies (BCUS).

Digitally-enabled platforms are reshaping cities in the 21st century. Platform-based activities are spatially concentrated in cities and build upon existing uneven geographies into wider urbanisation dynamics of economic development, environmental action and everyday life. This public lecture series investigates the logics and rationales of digital platforms, the role of data and code in urban governance and surveillance, the infrastructural channeling of urban knowledge and the progressive potential of platforms to facilitate sharing and the commoning of data.

The lectures kick off next Friday, 4 October 2019. The cycle will be completed in April 2020.

• 4 October 2019, Beurscafé, 17.30-19.30: Stefania Milan (University of Amsterdam) – Beta-testing democracy? Platforms forging citizens & how to resist them.
• 25 October 2019, Beurscafé, 17.30-19.30: Mark Graham (University of Oxford) – Cartographic Attributes of the Invisible: Geographies of the Platform Economy.
• 15 November 2019, Kaaistudio's, 17.30-19.30: Paul Langley (Durham University) – Platformed Populations: Figuring FinTech Users.
• 6 December 2019, Beurscafé, 17.30-19.30: Rivke Jaffe (University of Amsterdam) – Security Technology and the Politics of Failure.
• 14 February 2020, Kaaistudio's, 17.30-19.30: Fernanda Bruno (Federal University of Rio de Janeiro) – Territories of Exception: the architecture of state violence in Rio de Janeiro.
• 20 March 2020, Beurscafé, 17.30-19.30: Nanna Verhoeff, Michiel de Lange and Sigrid Merx (Utrecht University) – Urban Interfaces: Media, Art and Performance as Platforms for Creativity and Criticality.
• 24 April 2020, Beurscafé, 17.30-19.30: Dominique Boullier (EPFL Lausanne) - Pluralism for data driven cities and the division of learning.

Furthemore, do not miss the StadsSalonsUrbains roundtable at CPDP 2020!