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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?
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.
References
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, DOI: 10.1080/14649365.2022.2065693
Maalsen, S. (2021) ‘The hack: What it is and why it matters to urban studies’, Urban Studies. doi: 10.1177/0042098020986300.
This project has been funded by: Australian Research Council (ARC) DECRA (DE) 2020. Grant ID: DE200100259