Sophia Maalsen
Urban and digital geographer interested in all things urbanism, digital, gender, housing and ‘smart’.
- Reposted by Sophia Maalsen! New publication by @sophiamaalsen.bsky.social & others on innovation & prototypes in housing policy & construction. They shed light on the role prototypes could have in translating between users and government actors, addressing more affordable housing futures. www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
- After a five minute welcome home assault of wriggly hugs and kisses, Minx has put me to work playing tug of war. No rest for the wicked…
- The Digital Geography and Society editorial team will be at the AAG so come along and have a chat if you’re interested on submitting a paper or have any questions for us! Times below
- Join Digital Geography & Society editors at the @geographers.bsky.social #AAG2025 conference next week in booth 103 for our speed reviews! Please book here: www.elsevier.com/events/exhib...
- A busy week but finishing strong with our paper on “Prototyping as a Means to Innovate Affordable Housing Policies and Provision” out in HTS. A fun piece to write with Robyn Dowling, Pauline McGuirk, Tom Baker and Laura Goh doi.org/10.1080/1403...
- He kept us waiting but it’s bound to be a ripper! Looking forward to reading new work by @samkinsley.uk
- First proper article in five years, due to life stuff. If you’re interested in work, automation, the future & imagination this may be of interest #geosky doi.org/10.1177/0263...
- Don’t even. Traffic sign getting a bit passive aggressive there.
- Reposted by Sophia MaalsenGiving a talk soon on Silicon Valley Imperialism for friends in Ann Arbor today!
- Reposted by Sophia MaalsenThe theme of our CfP is - painfully - gaining in further relevance as the Trump-Thiel-Musk triad deepens its AI-inflected authoritarian tendencies. Deadline for abstract submission is this Friday.
- Are you thinking through questions about authoritarianism & AI? Do you like geographers? If so, please consider this session on ‘Authoritarianism and the Geographies of AI’ by @casey-lynch.bsky.social & @thomas-dekeyser.bsky.social & myself which we are hoping to get up at this year’s RGS-IBG.
- I had the pleasure of reading and reviewing @erinmcel.bsky.social “Silicon Valley Imperialism” published by @dukepress.bsky.social. Spoiler alert: it’s excellent! You can read my review in Dialogues in Urban Research here: doi.org/10.1177/2754...
- Are you thinking through questions about authoritarianism & AI? Do you like geographers? If so, please consider this session on ‘Authoritarianism and the Geographies of AI’ by @casey-lynch.bsky.social & @thomas-dekeyser.bsky.social & myself which we are hoping to get up at this year’s RGS-IBG.
- @sophiamaalsen.bsky.social @thomas-dekeyser.bsky.social and I are hoping to organize a session on the theme of 'Authoritarianism and the Geographies of AI' at this year's RGS-IBG (26-29 August 2025, Birmingham, UK). Please consider submitting! #geography #rgs
- Reposted by Sophia Maalsen@sophiamaalsen.bsky.social @thomas-dekeyser.bsky.social and I are hoping to organize a session on the theme of 'Authoritarianism and the Geographies of AI' at this year's RGS-IBG (26-29 August 2025, Birmingham, UK). Please consider submitting! #geography #rgs
- Finishing the year on a high with our special issue on “Housing Disruptions” which brings together excellent papers that critically examine the digital transformation of housing & home. It was a pleasure co-editing with @timwhite100.bsky.social & Dallas Rogers. Full line up in Tim’s post below:
- New special issue on ‘Housing Disruptions’ critically examining the digital transformation of housing and home. Edited by Dallas Rogers, @sophiamaalsen.bsky.social and myself in Digital Geography and Society. Contributions as follows:
- It’s digital geography Friday! And to celebrate, I am Shari g this excellent new article by Tim White (I’m not sure if he’s on here yet) on digital experiments in rent extraction focused on the co-living sector doi.org/10.1016/j.di...
- With the world as it is, I felt it was time to revisit this paper I wrote with my PhD supervisor, Kurt Iveson, on data and discipline in the city journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
- Just big dog fussing in the kitchen 😬😂
- Really excited to see this work on a critical history of the GeoJSON file format out by @marxist.af Jim Thatcher, Laura Beltz Imaka and David O’Sullivan. Perfect for you geo spatial tech nerds and all digital geographers! doi.org/10.1016/j.di...
- I’m experimenting with AI to help with in class quizzes. I seem to be unable to communicate with it without being all, “thank you!” “That’s great”, “please”, “if it’s not too much bother could you…”. I hope the AI appreciates my politeness 😂
- Back in Sydney.
- I’ve been very quiet on here of late so I’m going to kick things off again with this newly published progress report on digital geographies. I hope it gives those new to the field a good grounding on the cool work that geographers do on the digital! doi.org/10.1177/0309...
- An opportunity to indulge my love for Haraway &Hayles in my new paper, 'Home in cybersymbiosis: making home with digital oddkin.' I look at how we make home with our digital devices. Thanks to @kylzjarrett.bsky.social whose kitchen table I wrote the first draft on www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
- A new years treat, with this special issue on the Home published in Australian Feminist Studies. www.tandfonline.com/toc/cafs20/3... There is a great selection of articles, so please check it out if you are interested!
- I’m quickly running out of steam at this time of year so I’m going to treat myself by finally reading this book I’ve been carrying around in my bay for a month. One page in and I’m gripped!
- Last week of work before I’m signing off for the year. This means it’s also the time of the year when I start getting into Christmas spirit by subjecting the dogs to their reindeer photos. They were very patient despite the indignity…
- We said stay tuned so what have DallasRogers, myself, Peta Wolifson and our tenants union partners (@TUNSW @tenantsqld, @TenantsVic) been cooking up with Jack Toohey....? www.tiktok.com/@jack_toohey...
- Lots of data is collected on tenants. We (Dallas Rogers, myself, Peta Wolifson & Tenants Unions) created a hypothetical universe where tenants could "know" their landlord too. It's time for a conversation about how much info is necessary for both sides. Stay tuned... knowyourlandlord.app
- The 1st of our "Innovating Urban Governance" episodes is out (ltd edn hosted by @CityRoadPod)! Ep1 feat @PaulineMcGuirk & @tom_a_baker on the work of innovation units can be found here: cityroadpod.org/2023/11/20/i... Keep an ear out for @RobynSydney & me for ep 2 on design thinking the city!
- I am in denial about the marking to be done…
- The highlight of my week was our travel system doing weird things and costing a five day trip at $150,723. For a brief moment I thought I could travel VIP style. I can’t believe my supervisor didn’t approve it! 😂
- In case you missed it, Australian Feminist Studies has a new SI on Home! It was great collaborative editorial process with Jane Simon, Lilian Chee, &Cathy Smith. Reflections on, and from, Feminist Practice: Introduction to the ‘Home’ Special Issue www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
- *The Urban Cartel* are playing & reading @drnatosborne.bsky.social 's essay *For still possible cities: a politics of failure for the politically depressed* Dallas Rogers, drums; Laurence Troy, double bass; Steve Burns, guitar; Kurt Iveson, guitar; Me, Vox Fri 3rd Nov Amplify exhibition, Tin Sheds
- A great day working on what a tenant oriented property tech platform would look like with our tenants union partners as part of our ARC Linkage research on technology and the rental sector.
- Great to chat with Dr Christina Ballico and Dallas Rogers about music and sound as part of the Amplify: Story, Resistance, Radio exhibition’s pirate radio! Soon to be on City Road podcast. Photo credit: Christina Ballico.
- A quick trip to Brisbane for family things this weekend. I miss this place
- Reposted by Sophia MaalsenGoing to #AAG2024 and interested in the geographies of mobility transition? Send us your abstracts! #geosky docs.google.com/document/d/1...
