Invited lectures

Progressive Urban Design in Asia, at Peking University in Shenzhen, 2011.

Future Architecture in Asia, at the Special Interest Group on GRAPHics and Interactive Techniques (SIGGRAPH) Asia, Hong Kong 2011.

The Future of Design, at the Dutch Design Generator of the Beijing Design Week, 2011.

Cities, for the lecture course “Research in Architecture and Urban Design” by Juan Du, Tom Verebes and Eunice Seng, The University of Hong Kong, 2011.

The Model City, at the Department of Geography and Resource Management, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, 2010.

Factory Towns of South China, at the opening reception of the exhibition “The Ruhr Mythology” at the School of Architecture, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, 2010.

The Strip: Las Vegas and the Evolution of Spectacle, for the lecture course “Theorizing the City” by Juan Du, The University of Hong Kong, 2010.

Las Vegas, Symbolic Capital, at the Department of City and Regional Planning, University of California, Berkeley, 2009.

Brandscape, for the lecture course “Introduction to Design Theories and Methods” by Greig Crysler, University of California, Berkeley, 2009.

Notes on the Society of the Spectacle/Brand, for the seminar course “Architectures of Globalization” by Greig Crysler, University of California, Berkeley, 2009.

Conference presentations

The Strip: Las Vegas and the Ruination of Spectacle, paper to be presented at the Association of American Geographers Anual Meeting, New York, 2012.

The Shelf Life of Utopia: Ruining the Las Vegas Strip, paper presented at the 12th Conference of the International Association for the Study of Traditional Environments, Beirut, 2010.

Urban Design and Sustainability, presentation at the AIA HK Roundtable Forum, Vertical Density Symposium, Hong Kong, 2010.

Las Vegas and the Fallout of Spectacle, paper presented at the Association of American Geographers Anual Meeting, Las Vegas, 2009.

Pataphysical Machine of Memories, paper and design work presented at the Congress Cultural Analysis Theory and History, University of Leeds, 2006.