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Fran Meissner

Fran Meissner

Fran Meissner is an Assistant Professor of Critical Geodata Studies and Geodata Ethics at the University of Twente in the department of Planning, Land and Urban Systems, in the Netherlands. Her research focuses on contemporary urban social configurations and how these are transformed through datafication and urban technologies – technologies in cities and those in the earth’s orbit. She has previously been an EUI Max Weber Fellow and a Marie Skłodowska Curie Fellow, and has worked on various international research projects.

Dossiers, no. 2, vol. 11September 7, 2026<September 9, 2026

Orbital Urbanism and the Infrastructures of Urban AI Synthesis

Fran Meissner
The synthetic city has an orbital dimension. Fran Meissner follows the chain of AI mediations linking Earth-observing satellites to urban planning, arguing that what can be sensed from orbit increasingly determines what can be acted on below.

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  • About Us
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    • Volume 1 – 2015/2016
      • № 1 – December 2015
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      • № 5 – November 2016
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