HKU SIEW Lab

We are Social Infrastructure for Equity and Wellbeing (SIEW) lab in HKU's @HDupad. We care about housing, health and education.

[ᴍɪᴄʜᴇʟᴇ ᴀᴄᴜᴛᴏ @MicheleAcuto]

Looking forward to visiting #HongKong 🇭🇰 & @HKUniversity later this month not least to do this in the Faculty of Architecture and @dupadhku on the global urban imagination of city networks. Pop by if you’re about.

https://t.co/MMLKC7vSiy

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Both political subjectivities and aesthetic norms are redefined ongoingly in this process.

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Glad to share a new paper from SIEW lab director @heshenjing and @JunxiQian on @antipodeonline:Police and Politics in Aesthetics-Based Urban Governance: Redevelopment and Grassroots Struggles in Enninglu, Guangzhou, China.
https://t.co/49F5kXH5qx

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Particular attention is paid to the interactions between the aesthetic regime imposed by the state and grassroots people reclaiming their own aesthetic sensibilities, culminating in a contingent, inconclusive, and “impure” space of politics.

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These new approaches to rural revitalisation hold the hope for nurturing endogenous growth through empowering local communities and catering to indigenous needs while addressing planetary challenges, which can eventually be scaled up to wider regions and further afield.

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New paper out 👏 by SIEW Lab director Prof He Shenjing and RIEco director Zhang Yongsheng: Reconceptualising the rural through planetary thinking: A field experiment of sustainable approaches to rural revitalization in China
https://t.co/9tRI8bi5vY

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While the green development experiment in Shishou is far from ideal, the project demonstrates major breakthroughs concerning rural-urban relations and the multifaceted rurality.

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"China Urbanizing: Impacts and Transitions" - an @HKUgeography Distinguished Seminar by Weiping Wu @ColumbiaGSAPP 11 November 930am-11am HKT. https://t.co/WuSggWmVgW

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Post-doctoral Fellow with Prof Shenjing He in the Social Infrastructure for Equity and Wellbeing Lab (SIEW Lab), to work on one of the related projects on Climate/Environmental Gentrification, Socio-spatial Inequalities, and Health Geography.

https://t.co/9p1ldfXcqA

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Caring about rural revitalisation of Hong Kong? Come and help us complete the questionnaire for the Hing Chun Yeuk and surrounding nine villages. A research project commissioned by Countryside Conservation Office of HKSAR GOV https://t.co/6bJ9cpqHSp

[Jin Zhu @jinzhu_planning]

Just got our @HousingJournal paper out. Working with @nuoyafayangpu Shanghai Uni and @Sianelt @UNSWCityFutures, we've studied how Chinese homeless people make their homes in the post-repatriation era

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Many congrats to our PhD student Dunxu Wu who has successfully passed PhD oral examination. His thesis examines the healthcare migrants and neighbourhood impacts. Congrats Dr Wu and wish you all the best in your future chapter! @wudunxu @heshenjing

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Lab seminar!! Housing financialization by Prof Manuel Aalbers from KULeuven on 26 Nov. Prof Fulong Wu will also discuss the housing financialization issue from the China perspective. Welcome to join us!