Conferences & Invited Talks
CONFERENCES (selected)
2024
Honululu
Beijing's Winter Olympics 2022 and Corridor Urbanization: Assessing Extended Development Versus Peripheralization. The American Association of Geographers Annual Conference.
2023
London
Transforming Mountain Landscapes: Two Comparative Frontiers of Urbanization in Zhangjiakou. The Royal Geographical Society Annual Conference.
2022
Athens
When peripheralization meets financialization: Beijing's extended Winter Olympics corridor. RC21 – Research Committee on Urban and Regional Development.
2022
Luxembourg
Limits on Growth? A critical view of Beijing's new urban planning initiative. 30th conference of the International Network of Urban Research and Action.
2020
Prague
Reinventing the Chinese capital. World Multidisciplinary Civil Engineering-Architecture-Urban Planning Symposium.
2019
Zurich
Planning Ideals and Physical Manifestations in Beijing's Urban Transformation. ETH Zurich D-ARCH Schwerpunkte7 Conference.
TALKS
2023
Lausanne
The Cost of Green: Everyday Speculation in Beijing's Urban Greening. Workshop on Asian Urban Peripheries, Institute for Area and Global Studies, EPFL (École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne).
2023
Hong Kong
Rethinking Architecture with Critical Urban Studies. Summer 2023 Discussion Series, Department of Architecture, The University of Hong Kong. Online.
2022
Tianjing
Food Anatomy: Form, Structure, and Production. With Yue Zhao and Shuaizhong Wang. Overseas Young Scholars Series Lectures, School of Architecture,Tianjin University. Online.
2022
Beijing
Ecological National Spatial Image and Inward Densification – Crafting Global Livable Cities the Swiss Way. Western Europe Urban Renewal Policies and Systems Exchange Salon, Journal of International Urban Planning. Online.
2021
Xuzhou
Reading Urban Portraits. Young Academic Forum, School of Architecture and Design, China University of Mining and Technology. Online.
2019
Beijing
From theory to practice, from practice to theory. With Christian Kerez, 70th Anniversary Symposium of Beijing Architectural Design and Research Institute.
2019
Zurich
Legacy - Impact of teaching. In conversation with Christian Kerez, IEA Lecture Seris HS 19, Department of Architecture, ETH Zurich