Postdoctoral Researcher
Main Research Areas
- Leisure physical activities in public space
- Sustainability of mega-event facilities
- Human-centered design and urban ergonomics
Huishu Deng is an architect and architectural researcher. Since 2016, she was a member of the architectural design and planning group for the Beijing 2022 Olympic Winter Games, working with TeamMinus, THAD. She introduced the human-centered design strategies into the design of Olympic facilities, to align them with people’s public lifestyle and spatial experiences, and towards a long-term postgame usage.
She received her Ph.D. in Architecture at Tsinghua University (Beijing) in 2021, with the thesis addressing the essential spatial condition for urban spontaneous leisure physical activity with the method of field investigation and computer vision. She was a visiting scholar in the Department of Architecture and Design, Politecnico di Torino (Turin) in 2018 and 2019, worked on a joint research topic “Human Body and Urban Space”.
Huishu’s research interests, particularly, in measuring, mapping, and analyzing the impact of the urban built environment on culture, lifestyle, urban transformation, and people’s spatial experience through new data analysis tools, and how these data can inform design.
Study
2016-2021 Ph.D. in Architecture: Investigation of Essential Spatial Condition for Urban Non-Regimented Sport Activity, Tsinghua University, Beijing
2012-2016 Bachelor in Architecture, Tsinghua University, Beijing
2013-2016 Second Bachelor in Business Administration, Tsinghua University, Beijing
Links
EPFL: https://people.epfl.ch/huishu.deng/?lang=en
Linkedin: www.linkedin.com/in/huishu-deng