Re: [ToC] PropTech for the Public Good? (brainstorming session)
Daniele Quercia
Dear all,
Our next ToC seminar is today at 4pm and will be a brainstorming session. Joanna will introduce the idea of whether PropTech could be used for the public good, and will guide us through the generation of ideas.
Please join us! It should be informative and fun.
Thanks,
daniele
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The Triumph of the City (ToC) Seminar
PropTech for the Public Good? Generating ideas for Berlin’s housing revolution.
June 2, 2020 4PM London
Join Zoom Meeting
https://us02web.zoom.us/j/87466733886
Join Brainstorming board
https://jamboard.google.com/d/1bSnwlHWKFIfRW2b_aC10WtvHUDigW7jZtrTiUXk_C7U/viewer?f=0
Part of "The Triumph of the City" (ToC) Seminars: 30-min weekly talks on Future Cities from world-class speakers at the Centre for Urban Science And Progress (CUSP) London. Past talks at http://urbanbeers.org/cusp/
Abstract: I would like to use this online meeting as an opportunity to have an interactive brainstorming session. As a social scientist, my work focuses on the analysis of new models for the collective/public ownership of housing in cities. What excites me most about my collaboration with CUSP is the potential it affords to think about the future of urban public housing through the lens of technology and data science. My proposal is therefore the following: for the first 15 minutes of the session, I will present the case of Deutsche Wohnen Enteignen – a Berlin-based initiative that is seeking to re-municipalize 250,000 apartments that were privatized in the early 2000s (for the details, see here). Then I will proceed to facilitate a structured brainstorming session using the method in [1]. The guiding question here is: Can we imagine a use for PropTech (property technology) that supports equitable (and not profit-driven) models of urban housing?
[1] Better Brainstorming. HBR
https://www.dropbox.com/s/g26emxrsxemcml7/question-burst.pdf?dl=0
Bio: Dr Joanna Kusiak is a Research Fellow in Urban Studies at King’s College, Cambridge. Her work focuses on urban land, property and the role that legal technicalities play in shaping our cities. At CUSP, she hopes to bring perspectives from critical urban studies together with technological innovations. While her research is not confined to any region, Joanna is especially committed – as an activist and as an architecture/urban critic – to the cities of Warsaw and Berlin. In 2019 the International Journal of Urban and Regional Research awarded her essay ‘Legal Technologies of Primitive Accumulation: Judicial Robbery and Dispossession‐by‐Restitution in Warsaw‘ Best Article Prize ‘for the article that makes the most original and outstanding contribution to our understanding of cities and urbanization.’ She tweets at @jkkusiak.