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-Platform Urbanism and Its Discontents Helge Mooshammer Peter Mörtenböck-Access Is the New Capital-In Conversation with Sandro Mezzadra Helge Mooshammer Peter Mörtenböck -Decolonial Platform Urbanism Manuel Shvartzberg Carrió-The Presence of the Past in the Platform, or, the Cultural Logic of Absolute Rent Louis Moreno -Trending toward Teargas Benjamin Gerdes-Cooperatives, Platforms and Architecture Peggy Deamer -Access Platform Thinking Access Making Access Peter Lang -City on Demand?-In Conversation with Teddy Cruz and Fonna Forman Peter Mörtenböck Helge Mooshammer-Platform Urbanism during a Pandemic: Three Vignettes Alan Wiig-#saveourcinema On Our Way! Hi, My Name is Charlotte Solidarity and Samosas I Will Delete You Scott Rodgers Susan Moore-This Machine Kills The Final Phase of Platform Urbanism: A Podcast by This Machine Kills-The A to Z of Platform Urbanism Leo Hollis-Platform Urbanism and Sociotechnical Imaginaries Platform: Taking the Metaphor Seriously Socialist Cybernetics Maroš Krivy-The Collapse of Scale-In Conversation with Stephen Graham Peter Mörtenböck Helge Mooshammer-On Breath Ross Exo Adams-Flatforms Stay Home Matrix Digitally-Aided De-Growth Pedro Gadanho-Homes of the Internet Mona Mahall Asli Serbest-Against Platform Non-Transparency: A Politics of Resolution for Renegade Activism Gerald Nestler Sylvia Eckermann-The Platform Is My Boyfriend-Glitches from the Pandemic - Three-Act Play Slutty Urbanism-Measures of Closeness: The Contactless Condition Ofri Cnaani-Glorious Times Lucia Babina-Singularity Rebellion Orit Tal Halpern-Death as Timeline Event Andreas Kofler-The Tears of Freud: (Un)Heimlich COVID, Vectorialist Techno-Feudal Platform Overlords, Emotariat Automata Ignacio Valero-Monuments of Circulation - 'I' Is Everywhere-The Places, Pulses and People of Platform Urbanism Tom Avermaete-Ideals of the Home Bernadette Krejs-The City as Data Factory: Notes on Tech Urbanism Jochen Becker-Bearing Capital: Platforms, Performance and Personification Douglas Spencer-On Owning a 'Burner' Bloggers Best Home Obsessed with Its Own Image In the Flotation Tank The Shielding List Owen Hatherley-Data Is a Relation Not a Property-In the Shadow of Platform Urbanism: Beyond Utility and Towards the Institutionalisation of Technosocial Desires Tiziana Terranova-Beyond the Mountain Lies Another Animated Monsters, Vampiric Platforms Calculating Machines Matthew Stewart-Into the Black Box Collective From Urban to Platform (and Return): Emerging Time-Spaces -Unsettling Placelessness Daniel Cardoso Llach-No Fate but What We Make Matias Viegener -Paper Histories and Bio-Political Subjects? Ravi Sundaram -The Future Is Public-In Conversation with Saskia Sassen Peter Mörtenböck Helge Mooshammer -2020: Platform Is Everywhere Platform is Public: Citizen Distribution Systems Manifestations Maintenance Art: Museum as Pantry Vyjayanthi Rao-Learning to Live Together Jonathan Massey -Infrastructure, Not Platform Intergenerational Alliances Intersectional Solidarity in Contemporary Housing Gabu Heindl-Fairwork Project This Is Not A Platform -Inhabitation of Tensions Learning through Unintended Consequences Activating Potential Edgar Pieterse - Platform Urbanism and Its Discontents

Platform Urbanism' discusses the fundamental transformation of urban space through platform technologies. By reorganizing access to a wide spectrum of fundamental domains, such as education, housing, health care, or even political information, platforms are destined to become the most powerful players regulating the way we live in cities. Digital platforms such as Facebook, Uber, Airbnb and Amazon are not only new types of enterprises but also a completely new culture of life - from the products we handle and the services we use every day to entire urban neighbourhoods that will be built by major platform enterprises in the next few years. These multi-scalar changes raise significant questions about the social potentials and risks of the architecture of these all-encompassing ecosystems. Peter Mörtenböck and Helge Mooshammer are Co-Directors of the Centre for Global Architecture, an interdisciplinary initiative established to study the planetary changes affecting spatial production today. Their work has received numerous awards and commendations worldwide. Exhibition: Austrian entry for the 17th Venice Architecture Biennale, Venice, Italy (22.05.21 - 21.11.2021).