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The University of Sydney School of Architecture, Design and Planning

Hacking housing: technologies, processes and practices of housing futures

Reshaping our thinking to keep up with the evolving housing landscape

Digital technologies and computational logics are reshaping housing futures. Can they address current issues surrounding the Australian housing landscape and devise new policies?

About the project

Australians’ experiences of housing are changing due to rising housing unaffordability, uncertain employment prospects and digital disruptions to housing markets.

A diverse housing system is resulting, as housing providers and consumers innovate with novel housing models and practices to find solutions to housing problems. Contemporary housing thinking cannot grasp this reshaping of housing.

The project aims to advance a new conceptual framework and innovative methodologies to understand the new housing landscape as digital, rented and shared. It expects to generate new empirical knowledge using digital methodologies and grow international research networks. This should provide benefits such as evidence to inform policy and a digital methods toolkit.

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Publications

Maalsen, S. (2024) Home in cybersymbiosis: making home with digital oddkin, Information, Communication & Society, DOI: 10.1080/1369118X.2024.2311243

Maalsen, S. (2023). Algorithmic epistemologies and methodologies: Algorithmic harm, algorithmic care and situated algorithmic knowledges. Progress in Human Geography, 47(2), 197-214. 

Maalsen, S. (2023) Hacking housing: theorising housing from the minor, International Journal of Housing Policy, DOI: 10.1080/19491247.2022.2059846

Maalsen, S. (2023) ‘We’re the cheap smart home’: the actually existing smart home as rented and shared, Social & Cultural Geography, DOI: 10.1080/14649365.2022.2065693 

Maalsen, S., & Dowling, R. (2020). Covid-19 and the accelerating smart home. Big Data & Society. "

Maalsen, S. (2022) Hacking housing: theorising housing from the minor, International Journal of Housing Policy, DOI: 10.1080/19491247.2022.2059846

Maalsen, S. (2022) ‘We’re the cheap smart home’: the actually existing smart home as rented and shared, Social & Cultural Geography,Ìý¶Ù°¿±õ:Ìý

Maalsen, S. (2021) ‘The hack: What it is and why it matters to urban studies’, Urban Studies. doi: .

Project team

Dr Sophia Maalsen, University of Sydney

This project has been funded by: Australian Research Council (ARC) DECRA (DE) 2020. Grant ID: DE200100259.