Law and the Urban course: Open the 2025-2026 edition!

AgenDa carries out qualitative data collection with students. The course Law and the Urban 2025-2026 edition is part of this effort. Law and the urban explores the uneasy relationship between law and power as they materialise in (digital) cities. It goes in depth into the topics of how law shapes the design and fruition of urban spaces, and affects individuals’ urban everyday lives; and how the digital influences the emergence of (un)just practices in the urban. The students are asked to write a daily diary, where, for example, they reflect on how their daily micro-actions and decisions—which become data that are constantly extracted from people by digital tech, and oftentimes returned in form of target advertising, or otherwise tailored content—influence their behaviour and movements in space, and may produce harms. This exercise is part of the critical datafication literacy effort that informs the activities of AgenDa.