A conversation with Sophia Maalsen

Sophia and Prisca discuss the paper 'Covid-19 and the accelerating smart home' by Sophia Maalsen, Robyn Dowling, Sage journals, Big Data & Society, Published July 28, 2020. Sophia talks about use of uptake of technology in homes, public space & domestic space and the use of public space in Australia during the lockdown periods due to Covid-19.

Sophia Maalsen is an ARC DECRA Fellow and senior lecturer in the School of Architecture, Design and Planning at the University of Sydney. She is currently researching how the translation of computational logics and technologies is being applied to ‘hack housing’ and address issues of housing affordability and innovation. Her research is predominantly situated at the intersection of the digital and material across urban spaces and governance, housing, and feminism. She is interested with the way digital technologies mediate and reconfigure housing, the urban and the everyday.

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[IT] Sophia Maalsen è una ARC DECRA Fellow e docente presso la School of Architecture, Design and Planning dell'Università di Sydney. Attualmente sta facendo ricerche su come la traduzione delle logiche e delle tecnologie computazionali viene applicata per "hackerare gli alloggi" e rispondere ai problemi di accessibilità e innovazione degli alloggi. La sua ricerca è si concentra prevalentemente sull'intersezione del digitale e del materiale attraverso gli spazi urbani e la governance, l'edilizia abitativa e il femminismo. È interessata al modo in cui le tecnologie digitali mediano e riconfigurano l'alloggio, l'urbano e il quotidiano.