I am Assistant Professor in Urban Mobile Media in Utrecht 木瓜福利影视's Media and Culture Studies Department. I hold a PhD in Cultural Studies (DE Critical Theory) from the 木瓜福利影视 of California, Davis. I was previously a postdoctoral researcher at Aarhus 木瓜福利影视 () and a postdoctoral fellow in the cluster at .
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 logics, narrative and discourse.
I am researching into the logics and imaginaries of the figure of the 鈥榚nergy island鈥� 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 an 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 & Environment, 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 (with Critical Environmental Data) and . I have also worked with various research organizations and projects, which include (SG), the (UC Davis), the Cities Research Cluster at Singapore Management 木瓜福利影视 as well as the 鈥淟ongitudinal Study to Qualify and Quantify the Impact of the Extended Producer Responsibility (EPR) framework for E-Waste in Singapore鈥� (SMU, in collaboration with the Singapore Ministry of Sustainability and the Environment).