Zhuozhang is a PhD candidate at Centre for Architecture and the Visual Arts (CAVA), University of Liverpool. His thesis is titled ‘the Fluid City: The (Re)Production of Publicness in Cinematic Urban Topography of Contemporary Hong Kong’. Zhuozhang's research focuses on the physical and social transformation of urban spaces, as well as the representation of people's everyday practices. His thesis tries to understand the relationship between the process of urbanisation and people’s everyday actions, or 'tactics', at the intersection of spatial production, sociological theories and visual studies.
zhuozhang.lee@gmail.com
Education
PhD Candidate in Architecture
CAVA Research, UK, 10/2016-current
Funded by CSC & UoL
MA in Urban Design (Distinction)
Sheffield School of Architecture (SSoA), UK, 09/2014-01/2016
BEng in Urban Planning (Hons)
Northwest University (NWU), China, 09/2009-07/2014
Research
‘The Way We Dance’: The (Re)production of Rooftop Space in Hong Kong Urban Cinema, (speaker,) virtual conference: AHRA 2020 Housing and the City, 17th Annual International Conference of the Architectural Humanities Research Association, 19/11 - 21/11, 2020
‘Made in Hong Kong’: The (Re)production of Publicness in Cinematic Urban Topography of Contemporary Hong Kong, (speaker,) conference: Slices of Everyday Lives, University of Cambridge, 19/09 - 20/09, 2019
The Fluid City, (speaker,) conference: (Re)defining the Intersection: Hong Kong Textuality, Humanities Research Institute, University of Sheffield, 25/01/2019
The Cinematic Urban Representation and Socio-Spatial Production, (speaker,) Young Scholars Symposium, Xi’an, 29/03/2018
The Production of Image: from Qingming Scrolls to Situationism International, (speaker,) Media-City Symposium, Guangzhou, 13/12/2017
The Representation of Urban Milieu in Chinese Paintings in the Early 18th Century, (speaker,) conference: Cross-disciplinary approaches to the study of knowledge-making in the early modern world (1450-1800), London Arts and Humanities Partnership (LAHP) PhD Conference, London, 14/10/2017
2047: Fictional Speculations of Civic Space in Consumerism Hong Kong, MA Thesis, Sheffield, 04/2015-09/2015
CLUSTER-SSoA Mapping Workshop, Cairo, 02/2015
Development of Commercial Service Area in Daming Palace Area, National Natural Science Foundation of China, Xi'an, 03/2013-04/2014
Others
Residency researcher, Knowledge is Power, Tate Exchange Programme, Tate Liverpool, 20/01 - 26/01, 2020
Group Exhibition, Satellite, LOOK Photo Biennial 2019, Open Eye Gallery, Liverpool, 15/10 - 25/11, 2019
Group Exhibition, Output Open 2, Output Gallery, Liverpool, 05/2019
Lecture Speaker, Coop Workshop: The City Represented, Bauhaus (Dessau), 10/2017 & 11/2018
Residency Artist at Ed’s Place, PLACED, Liverpool, 08/2018-09/2018
Design Studio Tutor, Urban Planning Department, University of Liverpool, 01/2018-current
Graphic Design, Scalarama Film Festival, 06/2017-current
Translator, Till We Have Built Jerusalem: Architects of a New City (Chinese Edition)’, Beijing United Publishing co., LTD; 1st edition (December 1, 2017), with Guo Boya, Jiang Shan, Li Leyuan, Shang Yingnan and Tang Keyang
Exhibition Curator, Wandering through Newspaper, Guangzhou Academy of Fine Arts (GAFA), 12/2017
Guest Lecture Speaker, Walking-Practice Workshop, University of Edinburgh & ASA, 07/2017
Curator Assistant, Tang Keyang Studio, 2014-2016
Research Assistant, NWU, 03/2013-06/2014
Assistant Designer, Zhongsheng Planning & Design Institute, Xi'an, 02/2016-current
President of Student Union, NWU, 2012-2013
Awards
50th Anniversary Alumni Prize, SSoA, 2016
Outstanding Graduate Award, NWU, 2014
First-class Scholarship, NWU, 2013
The NWU Journalist Award, NWU, 2010
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