With an interdisciplinary background in urban geography, development studies, and environmental sciences, my research focuses on the ways digital infrastructures work to reproduce or restructure inequalities in urban space. I have analysed this in the context of water governance in Lima (PE), land administration in Nairobi (KE), Guadalajara (MX), and Mumbai (IN), and inclusive urban planning in Zwolle (NL). In exploring how digital technologies and planning support systems can be reshaped to inform a city that meets everyone’s needs, I frequently use co-creation methods. This means I collaborate with residents and civil society organisations to design new technologies and pilot interventions in digital and infrastructural space. These projects not only help imagine the city otherwise but reveal the normative assumption built into the technology we use to govern urban space and resources. The co-creation projects I have contributed to led to publications in leading journals in the fields of digital and urban geography and information studies, as well as prototypes for citizen-led urban dashboards and participatory planning support systems.

I hold a PhD in Urban Planning from the University of Twente, an MSc in International Development Studies from the University of Amsterdam and a BSc in Future Planet Studies from the University of Amsterdam. Currently, I am a research fellow at UCL working within Regional Futures, a multi-site project researching the digitalisation of urbanisation across metropolitan regions. You can download my full CV here.