Regional Futures

Regional Futures

I am currently working as a postdoctoral research fellow within the ERC-funded research project Regional Futures, led by Prof Ayona Datta at UCL.

Within this project, we research the dynamics of digitalisation-as-urbanisation – the transition to automated planning processes in metropolitan regions, and its impacts on regional urbanisation in Mumbai, Nairobi and Guadalajara. The project will conduct research in peri-urban municipalities of these three rapidly growing metropolitan regions where municipal digitalisation is directed towards strategic regional planning. These municipalities face major challenges with transforming paper-based colonial and postcolonial bureaucracies into automated planning processes within highly unequal contexts and, therefore, represent the wider experience of digitalisation-as-urbanisation in the global south.

For more information, visit the project website.