Lorena Melgaço is an associate senior lecturer at the Department of Human Geography at Lund University. She has previously worked at Plymouth, Birmingham, and Malmö universities as a researcher. Her research interests include the micropolitics of socio-spatial and technological peripheralisation in the postcolony; the intersections of technological dependency, capitalist production of space, and the socio-environmental crisis: smart cities; and the challenges of planning education and practice from a decolonial perspective.