100. Contested Platforms

There is ongoing concern about the localised impacts of globally owned platforms on the ways in which we use our homes and cities. From the housing market and neighbourhood impacts of Airbnb style platforms through to the less visible implications of automated urban systems, this session asks how communities can best understand and harness digitalisation to create positive opportunities, while managing risks.
PANEL
Professor Simon Marvin, the University of Sydney and the Director of the Urban Institute at Sheffield University
Dr Luke Hespanhol, Senior Lecturer in Design, the University of Sydney
Cecille Weldon, Proptech Association Australia
Dr Allan McCay, Deputy Director of The Sydney Institute of Criminology and Academic Fellow, Law School, the University of Sydney
CHAIRED BY
Dr Sophia Maalsen, Lecturer in Urbanism, the University of Sydney