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Is the usage of technology in housing neutral?
During the last decade(s) rapidly shifting technological landscapes combined with the trends of financialization affected housing in myriads of ways. Although it is represented as such technology is not neutral and it has significant implications on social and economic relations including the implications on financial accumulation through extraction by means of technology as well as the housing governance including the processes of obscuring the human agency. Digital technology as well comprise a crucial terrain struggle over housing that has been emerging in the last years. Proposed material will help in opening the discussion about the politics of digital in housing, new forms of accumulation through tec as well as about new field of struggle that has to confront the operation of technology.
Proposed resources:
- Read about the impact of different tech practices on housing: Planning, Land and Housing in the Digital Data Revolution/The Politics of Digital Transformations of Housing/Digital Innovations, PropTech and Housing – the View from Melbourne/Digital Housing and Renters: Disrupting the Australian Rental Bond System and Tenant Advocacy/Prospects for an Intelligent Planning System/What are the Prospects for a Politically Intelligent Planning System?
- Disruption at the doorstep
- How to use tech in housing struggles: Housing Data Coalition
How to work together:
Read the proposed articles before you come to the session. Divide in smaller groups. Each group has to choose one project of HDC and look into it closely. Make notes. Come back together and report back what you have learned. Discuss the differences in the role of technology that you have mapped. Write down the questions that you were unable to answer. Share your notes with other Pirate Care Syllabus users by downloading it on the web page.