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.

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