[csaa-forum] RMIT Public Lecture, Agnieszka Leszczysnki on "Urban platform materialities: aesthetics, glitches, amenities"

[Michael Richardson]

Dear colleagues,

If you’re located in Naarm / Melbourne, you may be interested in this public lecture hosted by the ADM+S Centre<https://www.admscentre.org.au/event/angieszka-leszczynski-on-urban-platform-materialities-aesthetics-glitches-amenities/>.

Angieszka Leszczynski on “Urban platform materialities: aesthetics, glitches, amenities”
April 26 @ 6:00 pm - 7:30 pm AEST
Kaleide Theatre, RMIT

This talk attends to how urban platforms materially ‘show up’ in cities, and where they materialize. Drawing on a range of empirical instances from North American cities, the talk situates and traces urban platform materialities in three registers: aesthetics, spatiality, and amenitization. Docked bikesharing infrastructure in Vancouver comprises a serialized aesthetics increasingly co-implicated with what gentrification ‘looks like’ at the microgeographic, or sub-neighbourhood, spatialities of the city. An e-bike sited above a tent encampment in San Jose and the ‘emoji house’ in Manhattan Beach, CA appear as aesthetic ‘glitches’ in our conditioned desires for orderly cityscapes and Instagrammable architectures. And finally, informed by the results of a spatial analysis of the locations of platform-based presences in Canadian cities, the talk position platforms as a novel urban amenity class, establishing how and why this matters for our understandings of ‘splintering’ urban development. Read across these registers, platform materialities emerge as vectors of significant urban transformations.

Please note: For reasons of privacy and security, this event will be in-person only. We apologise for the inconvenience.


Agnieszka Leszczysnki is an Associate Professor in the Department of Geography & Environment at Western University in Canada. She is an editor of Dialogues in Human Geography, Environment and Planning F: Philosophy, Theory, Models, Methods, and Practice, and a former editor of Big Data & Society. Her current work focuses on the intensifying integration of digitality and cities.


To register:
https://www.admscentre.org.au/event/angieszka-leszczynski-on-urban-platform-materialities-aesthetics-glitches-amenities/

Best wishes,
Michael

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Michael Richardson (he/him)
Associate Professor in Media and Culture
Program Director, Bachelor of Media
Co-Director, Media Futures Hub<http://www.mediafutureshub.org/>
Associate Investigator, ADM+S<https://www.admscentre.org.au/>

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