Ela Kagel is co-founder and managing director of SUPERMARKT, Alternative Digital Economy and PlatformCoop. She is also an artistic director of MoneyLab Berlin and board member of Platform Cooperatives Germany eG. Some Notes: -Model Project of Haus der Statistik https://hausderstatistik.org -Food delivery cooperative of Khora: https://www.facebook.com/watch/?v=1080269936143859 -DisCo.coop https://www.disco.coop Image courtesy: Ela Kagel Music Credit: "Negaram" by Golnar&Mahan

About: The Heart of Code is a FLINTA* space for technology-loving women (trans and cis), trans* and non-binary people to access information technologies, tools and content, and thus make the hacking community and tech landscape more diverse in the long term. -Maria’s current project: The menstrual cycle tracking app called “drip.” -You can find the pictures of Zin making and Wooden Half dome that have been built by ‘Heart of Coders’ in Instagram account of this podcast: @grassroots-digital-urbanism. Music Credit: "Negaram" by Golnar&Mahan

In conversation with Elizabeth Calderon Lüning: https://www.drlab.org/team/elizabeth-calderon-luning/ The Urban Gardening project of Prinzessinnengarten https://prinzessinnengarten.net/about/ The Neighborhood Academy(Knowledge Commoning) https://nachbarschaftsakademie.org/en/about/ Mazi project in Berlin: (Practicing community sovereignty over digital infrastructure) https://mazizone.net/mazi-eu/pilot-studies/neighborhood-academy/ The Digital City Alliance Berlin: https://digitalesberlin.info/en/about-the-digital-city-alliance-berlin/

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 Please write to us if you have any suggestion or tips: [email protected]

Technological Sovereignty Movement in Barcelona, a conversation with Casey Lynch on alternative digital future, digital commons and the Glitch About Dr. Casey Lynch: https://people.utwente.nl/c.r.lynch His publication that we discussed about in this episode: -Contesting Digital Futures: Urban Politics, Alternative Economies, and the Movement for Technological Sovereignty in Barcelona https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/anti.12522?saml_referrer -Internet infrastructure and the commons: grassroots knowledge sharing in Barcelona https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/pdf/10.1080/00343404.2020.1869200?casa_token=6vDKmZkb1SQAAAAA:hIQVh-wNhZvRhYXw_hKoDMSDlaasSnEYE1MCcd-kO1ZQM5z4w5h_MrXxjax_vm3QWQL19aDKc-S8 -Glitch Epistemology and the Question of (Artificial) Intelligence: Perceptions, Encounters, Subjectivities https://ris.utwente.nl/ws/portalfiles/portal/285086564/20438206221102952.pdf Other references that have been discussed -Race after Technology by Ruha Benjamin https://www.bklynlibrary.org/sites/default/files/documents/BOOK%20CLUB%20KITS/RACE%20AFTER%20TECH_BKLYN%20BOOK%20CLUB%20KIT_REV.pdf -Glitch epistemologies for computational cities https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/pdf/10.1177/20438206221075714 Initiatives and Projects in Barcelona Guifi Net https://guifi.net/barcelona https://www.researchgate.net/publication/280720388_Guifinet_a_crowdsourced_network_infrastructure_held_in_common Fab lab of :The Ateneus de Fabricació https://ajuntament.barcelona.cat/ateneusdefabricacio/en/ The Congress of Technological Sovereignty https://sobtec.cat Technological cooperative for social transformation. https://colectic.coop

Maja-Lee Voigt: https://www.leuphana.de/en/institutes/isco/members/maja-lee-voigt.html Her Master-Thesis: Cyber_Feminist_City. Stadtschaffende Praktiken zwischen Artificial Intelligence, Algorithmen und Asphalt (With limited access via HafenCity University Library: https://katalog.hcu-hamburg.de/vufind/Record/1783546794) The Manifest of Glitch Feminism by Legacy Russel: https://www.legacyrussell.com/GLITCHFEMINISM https://www.amazon.de/Glitch-Feminism-Manifesto-Legacy-Russell/dp/1786632667 Cyber- Feminist collectives: Baumschiff(treeshuttle) as former home of the Heart of Code: http://heartofcode.org Die Haecksen: https://www.haecksen.org/english/ Mz*Baltazar’s Laboratory https://www.mzbaltazarslaboratory.org The first international Cyberfeminist alliance https://obn.org/obn/faq/fs_faq.html and, https://fuckcologne.de/ Her paper under publication: We build this City on Rocks and (Feminist) code: Hacking Corporate Computation Design of Cities **The cover-image of this episode has been drawn by Maja-Lee Voigt. Resources: -BigBlueButton (2022): BigBlueButton | Open Source Virtual Classroom Software. BigBlueButton - Open Source Web Conferencing. https://bigbluebutton.org/ [letzter Zugriff 28.09.2022]. -Buolamwini, Joy (2021): Tweet vom 09.04.21. https://twitter.com/jovialjoy/status/1380539105675710465. -Buolamwini, Joy / Gebru, Timnit (2018): Gender Shades: Intersectional Accuracy Disparities in Commercial Gender Classification. In: Proceedings of Machine Learning Research 81, 1–15. -f.u.c.k. cologne (2022): Fuck Cologne - Feministisches Tech Kollektiv in Köln. https://fuckcologne.de/ [letzter Zugriff 03.11.2022]. -Genzmer, Jenny (2020a): F.U.C.K.001 Wir haben uns nen Hackspace gemakert. Feminismus und Computerkram. -Haecksen (2021): Wer sind die Haecksen? – Haecksen. https://www.haecksen.org/wer-sind-die-haecksen/ [letzter Zugriff 14.03.2021]. -Heart of Code e.V. (2021): kalender. http://heartofcode.org/kalender [letzter Zugriff 04.08.2021]. -Jurgenson, Nathan (2012): The IRL Fetish. The New Inquiry. https://thenewinquiry.com/the-irl-fetish/ [letzter Zugriff 27.09.2022]. Kitchin, Rob / Dodge, Martin (2011): Code/space: software and everyday life. Software studiesCambridge, Mass: MIT Press. -Mattern, Shannon (2017): A City Is Not a Computer. In: Places Journal. -netzforma* e.V. (2020): Wenn KI, dann feministisch. Impulse aus Wissenschaft und Aktivismus. Berlin: netzforma* e.V. — Verein für feministische Netzpolitik. -Marx, Paris (2021a): Embracing Glitch Feminism with Legacy Russell. Tech Won’t Save Us. Podcastkollektiv der Haecksen (o. J.): Technik kreativ nutzen. Haecksenwerk. -Russell, Legacy (2020): Glitch Feminism: A Manifesto. London/ New York: Verso Books. -Shaw, Joe / Graham, Mark (2018): Ein informationelles Recht auf Stadt? Code, Content, Kontrolle und die Urbanisierung von Information. In: Bauriedl, Sybille, Strüver, Anke (Hg.), Smart City - Kritische Perspektiven auf die Digitalisierung in Städten. London: transcript Verlag, 177–204. -Wark, McKenzie (2004): A Hacker Manifesto. Cambridge/ London: Harvard University Press. -Zook, Matthew / Graham, Mark (2018): Hacking code/space: Confounding the code of global capitalism. In: Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers 43/3, 390–404.

The podcast **Digital Urbanism, from the Grassroots** is about the emerging sphere of digital urbanism that explores alternatives to the non-techno-capitalist models in cities. In conversation with scholars, coders, and activists, Digital Urbanism, the podcast **Digital Urbanism, from the Grassroots** provides a forum for transnational debate and multi-forms of practices to advance our understanding of reclaiming technological sovereignty in spatial development, demystifying the ‘black box’ of platform urbanism and aligning technology to the urban-democracy agenda. Hosted and produced by: Niloufar Vadiati.

In this episode Martin Bangratz from RWTH Aachen University, PhD researcher at the chair of Planning Theory and Urban Development, discusses about the concept of Digital City Making and shares with us his own insights on this emerging practices. Links: https://www.pnd-what-next.de/category/digital-citymakers/ Publication on Digital city makers research projet: https://publications.rwth-aachen.de/record/835015/files/835015.pdf Online Journal of pnd (Planung neu denken) What/Next Podcast https://www.pnd-what-next.de/category/city-talks/ Grassroots Initiatives Utopastadt in Wuppertal https://www.utopiastadt.eu