Victorian Premier's Design Awards 2024, Exhibition Design - Finalist: 'Dwelling on the Platform: Housing Access and Equity in the Digital Society'

Alexander, Jacqui (Recipient) & Taylor, Warren (Recipient)

Prize: Prize (including medals and awards)

Awarded date	16 Oct 2024
Degree of recognition	Regional
Granting Organisations	Victorian Premier's Design Awards

Keywords

Housing Equity
Platform Technology
Platform Urbanism
Architecture
Urban Design
Global Real Estate
Land Speculation
Critical Spatial Practice
Art and Architecture

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”Dwelling on the Platform” was an exhibition exploring the role smartphone platforms play in the financialization of housing. While these technologies originally promised to democratise resources through new sharing networks, this show demonstrates their contribution to a global rental crisis, resulting in variety of architectural, urban, economic, legal and social challenges. However, it asks: under alternative governance, could the platform become a tool for addressing housing inequality at-scale? Through a series of creative works, “Dwelling on the Platform” presents a range of alternative applications for these technologies that reimagine housing as a project for people rather than profit.

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Outputs
Dwelling on the Platform: Housing Access and Equity in the Digital Society
Research output: Non-textual form › Design / Architecture › Research