Sophia Maalsen

1 month ago | tandfonline.com | Sophia Maalsen |Robyn Dowling |Pauline McGuirk |Tom Baker

ABSTRACTIn the face of rising housing affordability challenges, a diverse range of stakeholders are increasingly looking to alternative forms of housing provision and policy, and in particular, a turn to more explicitly experimental and design-inflected approaches. The process of prototyping is one of these. In this paper, we look at how prototyping is being used to address housing affordability in two ways.

Sep 30, 2024 | theconversation.com | Tom Baker |Alistair Sisson |Laura Goh |Pauline McGuirk |Sophia Maalsen

Since the end of his three-term New York City mayoralty in 2013, Michael Bloomberg hasn’t shied away from public attention. Presidential ambitions and global climate policy advocacy have kept him busy. But what is shaping up to be one of the most ambitious projects of the 82-year-old billionaire’s public life is not happening on the highly visible stages of national and international politics. It is unfolding in the stereotypically humdrum halls of city government.

Jul 27, 2024 | journals.sagepub.com | Dallas Rogers |Sophia Maalsen |Peta Wolifson

IntroductionTensions are emerging in urban studies between the competing ideas of financialisation (Aalbers, 2017), assetisation (Adkins et al., 2021) and rentier capitalism (Christophers, 2020).

Apr 15, 2024 | themonthly.com.au | Ange McCormack |Blake Hesketh |Sophia Maalsen

7am is a daily news podcast brought to you by Schwartz Media and The Saturday Paper. How to listen? WebsiteIn this episode of 7am’s five-part special series on the housing crisis, we meet the people who are trying to make it better: the people who are mobilising, taking matters into their own hands and fighting back. With home ownership out of reach, more and more younger Australians have no choice but to rent for much longer than their parents ever did – maybe for the rest of their lives.

Feb 13, 2024 | tandfonline.com | Sophia Maalsen

ABSTRACTAcknowledging the history of more-than-human approaches in human geography, and the entrenchment of computational devices in the home, this paper advances the concept of cybersymbiosis as framework to think about the way we make home with computational devices. Doing so provides a speculative tool for thinking through our relationships with devices and the way we make home with them in critical ways.