Maja-Lee Voigt
HafenCity Universität Hamburg/ Leuphana Universität Lüneburg
Research Associate, PhD student

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Maja-Lee Voigt (she/her) is an urban researcher at HafenCity University Hamburg, Ph.D. student at the Leuphana University Lüneburg, and co-founder of the interdisciplinary city research collective Akteurinnen für urbanen Ungehorsam in Hamburg, Germany. Assisted by a methodological toolbox of ethnographic and critical feminist thinking, her work focuses on all things Amazon, the automation of logistical cities, tackling questions about (resisting) algorithmic architectures of oppression, and hacking patriarchy towards more just urban futures.

Voigt, Maja-Lee / Hille, Laura (2025): Per Anhalter durch das Tech Bro Universe. re:publica25, Berlin. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=13m25lpHzYQ [letzter Zugriff: 07.07.2025].

Mitrović, Mirjana / Voigt, Maja-Lee (2025): Glitch(ing)! A refusal and gateway to more caring techno-urban worlds? In: Digital Geography and Society 8, 100115.

Voigt, Maja-Lee (2025): Mapping Amazon’s logistical footprint on the Ruhr – How a tech company is influencing cities, cluster politics and climates. In: Platforms & Society 2, 29768624251315164.

Voigt, Maja-Lee (2023) We build this city on rocks and (feminist) code: hacking corporate computational designs of cities to come, Digital Creativity, DOI: 10.1080/14626268.2023.2205406.

Akteurinnen für urbanen Ungehorsam (2022): Processed Food on the Urban Data Highway. Food Delivery Services as In_Visible Infrastructures in the Production of Urbanity. In: Strüver, Anke, Bauriedl, Sybille (eds.), Platformization of Urban Life. Towards a Technocapitalist Transformation of European Cities. Bielefeld: transcript-Verlag, 205–216.

Member of IllK Gender and Spatial Transformation
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  • Social & cultural geography
  • Architecture, urban design
  • Gender studies
  • Social sciences, cultural sciences, demography

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