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Cities are being overwhelmed by a top-down, algorithmically-enabled attempt to make them legible, quantifiable and replicable. Can a project of nonsense-making disrupt…
Hidden data infrastructure is integral to advancements in the UK's immigration enforcement capabilities. Exposing this infrastructure will therefore be an increasingly necessary…
As big mapping corporations substitute public institutions in curating spatial data, informal residents' voices are still yet to be acknowledged.
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Rideshare app Gojek has disrupted traditional paratransit services. The cost to places like Bandung is a loss of spaces once autonomously co-produced…
Global investment firms are using an arcane financial formula to make huge profits flipping properties in local markets, as recently illustrated in…
Discrimination in speech-translation software adds to existing digital and physical infrastructures set in place to control and constrain the Palestinian body.
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Beyond physical barriers and checkpoints, Palestinians in the West Bank contend with communications frequencies as an invisible infrastructure of control.
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The drug trade has become increasingly deterritorialised thanks to a global network of dealers and traffickers who have taken their activity online,…
Since 2005 several companies, such as Google, Microsoft, Baidu and Kakao (Daum), started to develop systems to digitally map urban and rural…
It is over a decade ago that Richard Florida introduced the “rise of the creative class”. If decaying cities wanted to survive,…