Activities

White Letters on a black background with some arrows pointing various ways, stating the title "Per Anhalter durch das Tech Bro Universe by Laura Hille and Maja-Lee Voigt". Logos of Leuphana University, Automating the Logistical City, and republica25 are below
// Tuesday, May 27, 2025, Berlin

[Recording available!] The Tech Bro Map goes re:publica 2025!

White Letters on a black background with some arrows pointing various ways, stating the title "Per Anhalter durch das Tech Bro Universe by Laura Hille and Maja-Lee Voigt". Logos of Leuphana University, Automating the Logistical City, and republica25 are below

Whether you’re part of the TikTok generation or a Facebook boomer: today, almost nothing influences us as much as the tech monopolies that govern our everyday lives. But what happens to democratic processes and ideals, when tech bros take over the managment of public goods, politics, and spaces? At re:publica25, Laura Hille and Maja-Lee Voigt critically map the (political) influence and strategic network of the Tech Bro Universe from the Silicon Valley to the White House.

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Slightly opened door drawing in black and white with the title of the presentation
// sts Hub Berlin, March 2025

Researching around the Brown Box

Slightly opened door drawing in black and white with the title of the presentation

Paper Presentation by “Automating the Logistical City”s Armin Beverungen and Maja-Lee Voigt on Notes from a Critical Ethnography of Amazon’s Urbanism at sts Hub Berlin.

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re:publica24 banner in black with the conferences name and dates. Beneath, the title of the talk on a white background: "Unboxing Amazon - How Amazon is taking over (public) infrastructures and why we should care by Maja-Lee Voigt"
// Monday, May 27, 2024, Berlin

[Recording available!] Unboxing Amazon at re:publica 2024!

re:publica24 banner in black with the conferences name and dates. Beneath, the title of the talk on a white background: "Unboxing Amazon - How Amazon is taking over (public) infrastructures and why we should care by Maja-Lee Voigt"

Tech companies like Amazon have quietly become our neighbors in cities. Automating the Logistical City’s Maja-Lee Voigt talked about how they are gaining governmental power and are often perceived as a standard at the re:publica 2024 in Berlin.

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// Open for submissions until October 30, 2023

CfP: Refusal and the Computational City

STRG + VERWEIGERUNG on red background

In this special issue for “Digital Geography and Society”, Automating the Logistical City’s Maja-Lee Voigt and Niloufar Vadiati (HafenCity University Hamburg) seek to draw together a diverse range of essays that addresses prefigurative grassroots urbanism in the context of post-digital cities.

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// 6-9 July 2022

Panel: Urban Speculations

Members of the project Ilia Antenucci and Armin Beverungen are co-organizing (with Andrea Pollio, Polytechnic of Turin, Italy / University of Cape Town, South Africa and Paula Bialski, University of…

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