Maja-Lee Voigt
Vita
Maja-Lee Voigt is an urban designer, research associate at the project "Automating the Logistical City" (since 2021), and co-founder of the interdisciplinary city research collective Akteurinnen für urbanen Ungehorsam in Hamburg. Assisted by a methodological toolbox of ethnographic and critical feminist thinking, her work focuses on everyday practices of resistance through and embodiment of invisible digital infrastructures and urban gig work. After deep diving into the realms of (cyber-)feminist hackspaces in the context of her master thesis "Cyber_Feminist_City - City-Making Practices between Artificial Intelligence, Algorithms, and Asphalt" she is presently thinking through the automation of logistical cities, tackling questions about algorithmic architectures of oppression, cities in crisis, and hacking spaces towards more just urban futures.
Projects
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Cities on Demand? Unboxing Urban Un_Certainties from Amazon’s Algorithmic Architectures and Forecasted Futures
Maja-Lee Melissa Voigt (Project staff)
Project: Dissertation project
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Automating the Logistical City: Space, Algorithm, Speculation
Dirk Armin Beverungen (Project manager, academic) , Ilia Antenucci (Project staff) , Maja-Lee Melissa Voigt (Project staff) , Laura Simone Hille (Project staff) , Ned Rossiter (Partner) , Shannon Mattern (Partner) , Orit Halpern (Partner)
→Project: Research
Publications
Journal contributions
- Refusal and the Computational City - From (De)Coding the Machine to (En)Coding Care: Introduction to the Special Issue
Maja-Lee Melissa Voigt (Author) , Niloufar Vadiati (Author) , 01.12.2025 , in: Digital Geography and Society, 9 , 5 p.Research output: Journal contributions › Other (editorial matter etc.) › Research
- Glitch(ing)! A refusal and gateway to more caring techno-urban worlds?
Maja-Lee Melissa Voigt (Author) , Mirjana Mitrović (Author) , 01.06.2025 , in: Digital Geography and Society, 8 , 11 p.Research output: Journal contributions › Journal articles › Research › peer-review
- Mapping Amazon's logistical footprint on the Ruhr: How a tech company is influencing cities, cluster politics and climates
Maja-Lee Melissa Voigt (Author) , 01.01.2025 , in: Platforms & Society, 2 , 5 p.Research output: Journal contributions › Journal articles › Research › peer-review
- We build this city on rocks and (feminist) code: hacking corporate computational designs of cities to come
Maja-Lee Melissa Voigt (Author) , 24.07.2023 , in: Digital Creativity, 34, 2 , p. 162-177 , 16 p.Research output: Journal contributions › Journal articles › Research › peer-review
- Public Urban Space Matters!: Reflections on the Regulation and Racialization of Public Urban Space through Spatialized Policing Practices
Maja-Lee Melissa Voigt (Author) , 18.11.2021 , in: Kritische Berichte, 49, 3 , p. 8-15 , 8 p.Research output: Journal contributions › Journal articles › Research › peer-review
Contributions to collected editions/anthologies
- Behind the Scenes of Automation: Ghostly Care-Work, Maintenance, and Interferences: Exploring participatory practices and methods to uncover the ghostly presence of humans and human labor in automation
Maja-Lee Melissa Voigt (Author) , Yana Boeva (Author) , Arne Berger (Author) , Andreas Bischof (Author) , Olivia Doggett (Author) , Hendrik Heuer (Author) , Juliane Jarke (Author) , Pat Treusch (Author) , Roger Andre Søraa (Author) , Zhasmina Tacheva (Author) , 19.04.2023 , p. 1-5 , 5 p.Research output: Contributions to collected editions/anthologies › Article in conference proceedings › Research › peer-review
- <title>“Processed Food on the Urban Data Highway. Food Delivery Services as In_Visible Infrastructure in the Production of Urbanity” </title>: <meta name=“EmergeError”>
Maja-Lee Melissa Voigt (Author) , 27.09.2022 1 ed. Bielefeld , p. 205-216 , 12 p.Research output: Contributions to collected editions/anthologies › Contributions to collected editions/anthologies › Research
Activities
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Researching around the Brown Box - Notes from a Critical Ethnography of Amazon’s Urbanism
Dirk Armin Beverungen (presenter) , Maja-Lee Melissa Voigt (presenter)
Activity: Conference Presentations › Research
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Unboxing Amazon – How Amazon is taking over (public) infrastructures and why we should care
Maja-Lee Melissa Voigt (Speaker)
Activity: Conference Presentations › Research
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Justice at the End of the Supply Chain: Interrogating Amazon’s Logistical Urbanism from the Cloud to the Curb
Dirk Armin Beverungen (Speaker) , Maja-Lee Melissa Voigt (Speaker) , Ulf Treger (Speaker)
Activity: Guest lectures › Research
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Circulation Obsession – Following the Flows and Flaws of Big Tech’s Urban Logistical Infrastructures
Maja-Lee Melissa Voigt (Coauthor) , Dirk Armin Beverungen (Coauthor) , Ilia Antenucci (Coauthor)
Activity: Conference Presentations › Research
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Unboxing Uncertainties – Interrogating Forecasting and Foreclosing Future Infrastructures in the Amazon Town
Maja-Lee Melissa Voigt (Speaker)
Activity: Conference Presentations › Research
Press / Media
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Kapitalistisches Schlaraffenland
Interviewed oncePress/Media: Press/Media
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Cyber-Feminist Urbanism
Interviewed oncePress/Media: Press/Media
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Cyber-Feminist Urbanism: a conversation with Maja-Lee Voigt
Interviewed oncePress/Media: Press/Media
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Episode 1 (2022) Maja-Lee Voigt - CTRL + F_eminist futures_. Hacking algorithmic architectures of cities to come
Interviewed oncePress/Media: Press/Media
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CTRL + F_eminist futures_: Hacking algorithmic architectures of cities to come
1 Media contributionPress/Media: Press/Media