About thE podcast

The podcast **Digital Urbanism, from the Grassroots** is about the emerging sphere of digital urbanism that explores alternatives to the non-techno-capitalist models in cities.

In conversation with scholars, coders, and activists, the podcast **Digital Urbanism, from the Grassroots** provides a forum for transnational debate and multi-forms of practices to advance our understanding of reclaiming technological sovereignty in spatial development, demystifying the ‘black box’ of platform urbanism and aligning technology to the urban-democracy agenda.

Hosted and produced by:

Niloufar Vadiati and Matin Akbari

Email: niloufar.vadiati@gmail.com

Music Credit: "Negaram" by Golnar&Mahan
My dear colleague Nassim Mehran and I kindly invite scholars, practitioners, activist and coop-members to join us in diffracting critiques around infrastructural role of digital platforms at STS Hub 2025 in Berlin (March 11 – 14). Please submit
Episode 5, From Urban Experimenting to Digital Sovereignty in Berlin, an enjoyable conversation with Elizabeth Calderon Lüning.
Conceptualising urban digital sovereignty, this panel brings tree research projects into a conversation. The panel intends to go beyond exploring the practices of digital sovereignty in their respective urban context by positioning the researcher as
Tune in to stroll with SophiaMaalsen on hack as an urban practice, politic and a new way of seeing.
The podcast **Digital Urbanism, from the Grassroots** is about the emerging sphere of digital urbanism that explores alternatives to the non-techno-capitalist models in cities. In conversation with scholars, coders, and activists, the podca