Her Cities - A City of One’s Own: On the Difficulty of Imagining an Ideal City
Her Cities Films & Public Workshop
Public Lecture: A City of One’s Own: On the Difficulty of Imagining an Ideal City
Session Chair: Dr. Jiayi Jin, Department of Architecture and Built Environment
Dr. Zhuozhang Li completed his PhD in Architecture (2021) at the Centre for Architecture and the Visual Arts (CAVA), University of Liverpool. His research is established at the intersection of urban studies, visual cultural studies and critical theories. Prior to joining UCA in 2022, he has delivered lectures, tutorials, studio critics and workshops at several places including the Liverpool School of Architecture, Sheffield School of Architecture, Hong Kong Academy of Film, Bauhaus (Dessau), Beijing Institute of Technology and Guangzhou Academy of Fine Arts. Alongside research and teaching, his recent curatorial and/or artistic practice includes ‘Traces under the Surface (Beijing, 2022)’, ‘Entre las Flores (Granada, 2022)’, ‘Edge Hill: A Shifting Model of Publicness (Metal Culture UK, 2022)’, and ‘Knowledge is Power (Tate Liverpool, 2020)’.
Zhuozhang’s doctoral thesis ‘The Fluid City: A Cinematic Urban Tectonic Study on the (Re)Production of Publicness in Contemporary Hong Kong’ investigates the socio-spatial production of everyday urban space in Hong Kong in the past four decades through the lens of urban cinema, to map out the overlooked spatial practices of local residents. By conducting a comparative case study of 28 city films and a longitudinal study on three different types of architectural/urban spaces in the city, this research reveals a hidden thread as a local discourse of resistance and negotiation that accommodates multiple groups of people in the city within its specific cultural, social and political contexts.
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