Ziqiu Ren

Ziqiu Ren is a PhD candidate in Architecture at the University of Manchester and an associated researcher at the Urban Studies Lab (USL). Her PhD project is under the supervision of Prof Deljana Iossifova, Dr Trude Renwick, Dr Huda Tayob (RCA) and Dr Hamid Khalili (MSA), and it is supported by the Postgraduate Research Awards of Royal Geographical Society (with IBG) and Hong Kong Research Grant. Her current research interest is concerned with  the timespace regime of food marketplaces as infrastructural nodes in Chinese urban-rural continuum through ethnographic filming and photographing.

Before starting the PhD, she studied Architecture at Southeast University, China and Università Iuav Di Venezia, Italy, participating in award-winning research/design projects on infrastructure transformation and urban/rural regeneration. Her master thesis was funded by China’s National Social Science Foundation. Her research was part of the team project exhibited on Collateral Event of the 17th International Architecture Exhibition – La Biennale di Venezia and other permanent exhibitions.