Digital Placemaking and Soft City Sensing DFF research network

The "Digital Placemaking and Soft City Sensing" research network explores how digitalization influences urban placemaking, examining the impact of social media, location-based services, and algorithms on how people interact with and shape their cities. Comprising an interdisciplinary team across fields like ethnography, architecture, media studies, and data science, the network seeks to understand place as an ongoing assembly of social, material, and historical elements. Together, these researchers aim to develop new methods to study digital placemaking, focusing on how digital tools and platforms influence community-building, identity, and the urban social fabric in an era of increasing social segregation.