Hi, Below are details on a panel call organized by PLUS project (Platform Labour in Urban Spaces). Please share / submit an abstract. Part of the Urban Assemblage Conference
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Data Extraction, City Urbanism and Platform Workers Rights
A panel call as part of the Urban Assemblage conference, London/Hertfordshre, June 2021
https://architecturemps.com/london-hatfield/
Data extracted from platforms like Airbnb, Uber or Deliveroo is a potentially rich source of information for urban planners. It gives information on a wide range of activities ranging from tourism, consumer preferences, housing and dietary habits to traffic, movement, and pollution. As part of its corporate social responsibility campaign, Uber launched in 2017, the so-called Uber Movement creating open-source tools to share data with urban planners. In contrast to this seemingly generous gesture, most platforms have persistently refused to share the data that they collect on platform workers’ movements and actions, although it is mainly users (workers and customers) that are generating most of this data. In fact, recent social movements claiming better working conditions for platform workers have began to fight for the right of workers to access their personal data in multiple ways that expose the lack of transparency of platform business models.
The panel will focus more broadly on issues related to data openness and transparency in the platform economy. These issues raise political questions about the production, appropriation and sharing of data, which challenge the rosy picture of corporate-responsibility alliances between urban planners, researchers and platforms. The panel is organised by the PLUS project and will address the labour aspects of data production by users (both workers and consumers) as well as processes of extraction. Its aim will be to find ways of reimagining data about urban spaces and movements that resist extraction and labour exploitation and to think of shared and open data methodologies that familiarise urban planners with crucial labour perspectives and struggles.
URBAN ASSEMBLAGE : THE CITY AS ARCHITECTURE, MEDIA, AI AND BIG DATA
Place: Virtual / London / Hatfield, UK.
Dates: 28-30 June 2021
Organisers: University of Hertfordshire
Abstracts: 01 April, 2021
https://architecturemps.com/london-hatfield/
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