Utrecht, Utrecht, Netherlands
I am Assistant Professor in Urban and Mobile Media in Utrecht University's Media and Culture Studies Department. I hold a PhD in Cultural Studies (Designated Emphasis in Critical Theory) from the University of California, Davis. I was previously a postdoctoral researcher at Aarhus University (with the Design and Aesthetics for Environmental Data project) and a postdoctoral fellow in the Asian Urbanisms cluster at Asia Research Institute. My research interests lie broadly in the intersections of contemporary architectural and design history and theory, critical geography, feminist Science Technology and Society (STS) studies, environmental media and humanities and visual and media culture and aesthetics. I engage with methods of discursive, historical, archival and formal analysis as well as close-reading and ethnographic fieldwork to approach questions on how notions and forms of technology, the 'environment', the past and the future are co-constituted and transformed through modes of design and media as well as projective and speculative narrative and discourse. I am researching into the logics and imaginaries of the figure of the ‘energy island’ and energy media interfaces as apparatuses of the planetary energy transition. I am also working on a book manuscript project tentatively titled "Planetary Urban Futures: Scale as Infrastructural Frontier," which provides a critical account of how the recursive tropes of the city as slum, glasshouse, high-rise, island and platform configure notions of the urban as a planetary frontier. My research has been featured in Media and Environment journal, "Climates: Architecture and the Planetary Imaginary" (Avery Review/Columbia GSAPP) and Architecture_MPS. A member of the International Association of Art Critics (AICA), I have most recently contributed to the 2023 Helsinki Biennal (with Critical Environmental Data) and Words of Weather: A Glossary. I have also worked with various research organizations and projects, which include The Centre for Liveable Cities (SG), the Feminist Research Institute (UC Davis), the Cities Research Cluster at Singapore Management University as well as the “Longitudinal Study to Qualify and Quantify the Impact of the Extended Producer Responsibility (EPR) framework for E-Waste in Singapore” (SMU, in collaboration with the Singapore Ministry of Sustainability and the Environment).
Design and Aesthetics for Environmental Data project, Digital Design and Information Studies Department
Member of the Asian Urbanisms Cluster (https://ari.nus.edu.sg/clusters/asian-urbanisms/)
HH4901 Special Topics in Interdisciplinary History: Histories of World-Making Through Science, Design and Technology Department of History