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.

Publications

Journal contributions

  1. 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 contributionsOther (editorial matter etc.)Research

  2. 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 contributionsJournal articlesResearchpeer-review

  3. 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 contributionsJournal articlesResearchpeer-review

  4. 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 contributionsJournal articlesResearchpeer-review

  5. 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 contributionsJournal articlesResearchpeer-review

Contributions to collected editions/anthologies

  1. 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/anthologiesArticle in conference proceedingsResearchpeer-review

  2. <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/anthologiesContributions to collected editions/anthologiesResearch

Press / Media

  1. Kapitalistisches Schlaraffenland
    Interviewed once

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  2. Cyber-Feminist Urbanism
    Interviewed once

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  3. Cyber-Feminist Urbanism: a conversation with Maja-Lee Voigt
    Interviewed once

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  4. Episode 1 (2022) Maja-Lee Voigt - CTRL + F_eminist futures_. Hacking algorithmic architectures of cities to come
    Interviewed once

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  5. CTRL + F_eminist futures_: Hacking algorithmic architectures of cities to come
    1 Media contribution

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Courses