Sarah Barns

Dr. Sarah Barns is research fellow at Western Sydney University and leads digital place-making and interpretation practice Esem Projects. Sarah is currently writing a book on platform urbanism as critical urban practice, to be published by Palgrave Macmillan in 2019. This work is based on her post-doctoral research project titled Platform urbanism: The role of city labs, data infomediaries and open government experiments in urban governance, funded by the Urban Studies Foundation. Twitter: @_sarahbarns

no. 4, Roundtables, vol. 3November 7, 2018<November 8, 2018

Platform Urbanism Rejoinder: Why now? What now?

Sarah Barns uses Henri Lefebvre's theories of the quotidian to consider platform urbanism as a mode of ‘everyday’ urban intervention.

no. 4, Roundtables, vol. 3October 26, 2018<October 26, 2018

We Are All Platform Urbanists Now

Sarah Barns argues that a platform urbanism should be more than a focus of academic critique, but also a site for radical appropriations of urban space.