2025/1/29 MORE WRITING
New year is here🐍, new text is out🧨：“To some extinguishing opaque heart: What the hell matters in the world,” double book reviews of Design Earth works, continuing my effort inquiring into posthumanist sustainability🌍🌏🌎 Also continuing my work for Journal of Architecture as international corresponding editor, welcome interesting architectural design/book/exhibition my way🙌🏻
2024/10/24 MORE TALKING
In town at Wash U St.Louis for Architecture Theory Roundtable next week, so looking forward!👻🎃🤟🏻
2024/10/11 MORE WRITING
Grateful to contribute an entry “of Some Dice, Some Litter, Tentatively“ in An Educator’s Roundtable “The Afterlife of Energy Post-carbon and Feminist Post-work Politics” in the latest issue of Journal of Architectural Education on Worlding. Energy. Transitions, in entanglement with beautiful fellow educators inquiring together towards further socio-eco justice. Shout out to Rania Ghosn who led all this! My piece can be thought of as a teaser-trailer for my second book project Some Dice, Some Litters (tentatively); and features an image of my 2023 Harvard GSD pedagogical experiment🌏⚡️
2024/10/09 MORE TALKING
Presenting “Ornament, OrLand: Radical Profanations” at the next CAA conference Feb. 2025 in NYC. Check out: https://caa.confex.com/caa/2025/meetingapp.cgi/Session/14720
2024/10/09 MORE TALKING
Will give a lecture on “Cloud as an Alternative Architecture” 10/13 virtually in Chinese at Fudan University, School of Philosophy, as I work it further into my book chapters. Published peer-review article in English here☁️: https://online.ucpress.edu/representations/article-abstract/166/1/118/200617/Cloud-as-an-Alternative-Architecture?redirectedFrom=fulltext
2024/9/24 MORE MAKING
After more than a year of collective research, during which I had the pleasure to serve on the process committee, Feminist Spatial Practices is now launching our interactive web platform - an experimental archive that enables people to discover nearly 600 feminist practices in art, architecture, and design through thematic relationships across time. This platform is a resource for knowledge sharing and community-building.
Please join us for the launch of this project on Tuesday, October 8 from 7-8:30pm at the e-flux screening room (172 Classon Ave, Brooklyn). The launch event will include presentations by our team as well as guest presentations by amazing practitioners featured on the site: Marisa Morán Jahn, A.L. Hu, Diana Agrest, and Jerome Haferd. There will be drinks, food, and an immersive installation of fluffy poofs to lounge on. It'll be a good time - come join us!
For those of you who can't join us, the event will also be livestreamed and the recording will live on the event page. The web platform will be viewable after Oct 8 at www.feministspatialpractices.com.
You're also welcome to join us this coming Saturday for a participatory workshop to make the fluffy poofs for the immersive installation. This will be a casual gathering where we all tie fabric and chat about feminist practices and our work. All are welcome, no skills required! Saturday, September 28 from 2-5pm.
RSVP for launch event
https://www.e-flux.com/events/622102/feminist-spatial-practices-nbsp-web-platform-launch-event-nbsp/
RSVP for making workshop
https://www.e-flux.com/events/622100/feminist-spatial-practices-nbsp-making-workshop/
2024/08/07 New Academic Appointment
Excited to be starting as a tenure-track Assistant Professor in History and Theory of Architecture at Mississippi State University! Many thanks to two wonderful years based at Pratt and NYC✨Creating my own“Architecture Theory” lecture course as part of the core curriculum right now for the next semester, you know how much that means to me, welcome thoughts sent my way✨
2024/05/22 MORE TALKING
Giving a public lecture in Mandarin on “The Power of Chores: Towards an Atmospheric Feminist Architecture” at Chongqing University online this Friday evening EST with LI Juchuan as my respondent.
Come join the discussion!
2024/05/21 New Academic Appointment
Honored and excited to be joining the esteemed team of The Journal of Architecture starting next month as an International Corresponding Editor. Welcome book, exhibition, building recs et al sending my way✨
2024/05/01 MORE WRITING
My research around “Cloud as an Alternative Architecture” is finally out as a peer-reviewed article with Representations.
For anyone interested in architecture/theory, welcome thoughts, suggestions, criticisms as I continue to work it into a chapter in my first book project.
2024/04/29 MORE WRITING
My work on “The Architecturing of Modern Love and the Architecturing of Modern Architecture: Revisiting ‘Huiyin Lin’” out as a peer-reviewed article with The Journal of Architecture
Check out this Asian feminist architectural possibility!
2024/02/23 MORE WRITING
My peer-reviewed chapter “Moving towards a Concrete Type” e-published earlier this month, paper version coming out next week, many thanks to Alison and Eunyoung’s editing! Also check the rest of the book out!
Download: https://brill.com/display/book/9789004691094/BP000009.xml
Welcoming all thoughts/suggestions/critiques!
2024/1/2 MORE TALKING
Giving a paper on “Moving Exhibition, Moving Identity: An Asian Feminist Experiment” at the Society of Architectural Historians (SAH) 2024 Annual International Conference in April, in the “Gender and the Architecture Exhibition” panel, hope to see you and look forward to your thoughts!
The program here: https://www.sah.org/2024/program?utm_source=Informz&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=SAH2024&_zs=HFCNe&_zl=R5Ls3
2023/12/3 New Academic Appointment
Happy to announce that I am joining Cornell University Architecture Art Planning (AAP) next semester to teach another version of the elective seminar “Yeah, they were All Yellow: Asian Feminist Architectural Possibilities,” looking forward to how this ongoing collective inquiry unfolds through this event!
2023/11/20 MORE MAKING
Finally Releasing! Collaboration with WU You, design for Stone City Museum Entrance in Nanjing, “Stone Time.”
2023/11/8 MORE TALKING
Presenting my paper and research around LIN Huiyin this Fri(EST)/Sat(Beijing) at QQ studio annual symposium hosted by Southeast University+UDG, first time in Chinese! Open to SEU QQstudio and UDG folks online/in person.
2023/10/29 MORE TALKING
Presenting my research and reflection around Water since 2016, incorporating the glacier hike at Mont Blanc this summer among others: next Friday at Princeton, “Building Life Workshop”, details: https://soa.princeton.edu/#3479
Really like this paper! Looking forward to your thoughts!
2023/10/17 MORE TALKING
Sharing some recent Feminist Theory/Practice with Bilge Bal @feminist_spatial_practices next week🥔 Hope to see/hear/talk with you there✨
2023/08/05 MORE WRITING
My 2021 ACSA paper on “Cloud as an Alternative Architecture” is finally out☁️
Download here: https://www.acsa-arch.org/chapter/cloud-as-an-alternative-architecture/
Welcoming all thoughts/suggestions/critiques!
2023/04/05 MORE TALKING
Giving a talk on “Positively Remobilizing Identity: Asian Feminist Architectural Experiments” at “Report from the Field”
April 6th, 6-8pm, Higgins Hall Auditorium, Pratt Institute
2023/03/23 MORE MAKING
“Yeah, they were All Yellow: Asian Feminist Architectural Possibilities” exhibition opens along with HIS 4506 midterm review! Participate in this interactive exhibition which opens until May 12th at Harvard GSD!
2023/01/28 MORE TALKING
“A Broken Circle” rolling to NYC Feb. 13th 6pm EST with Catherine Ingraham as respondent at Syracuse Architecture Public Lecture Series.
2022/01/26 MORE MAKING
Making upcoming exhibition “Yeah, they were all Yellow: Asian Feminist Architectural Possibilities“ accompanying my course with the same name, in collaboration with Womxn In Design at Harvard GSD✨💛
2022/01/26 MORE TALKING
I am giving a public lecture at Harvard GSD next Wednesday “A Broken Circle: Chinese Experimental Architecture Or French Poststructuralist Theory“ with Lisa Haber-Thomson as respondent. Cambridge/Boston friends, come and help me work towards the book?
2022/01/06 MORE WRITING
New Article out, critically reflecting New Sustainability, Sentimental Regionalism and Scenographic Architecture with MoMA’s Chinese contemporary architecture exhibition last year. Many thanks to the editors and curators Evangelos Kotsioris and Martino Stierli for interviewing with me, as well as Ateya Khorakiwala as a key interlocutor.
2022/12/19 MORE TALKING
I have organized a panel on “Possibilities of Posthumanist Sustainability“ in conjunction with Fishing, supported by UABB and Archipelago. Join me and Su Chang along with Zihao Zhang, Jingru Cyan Cheng, and Hang Li in this collective inquiry!
2022/12/17 MORE WRITING
My Book Review/Art Criticism/Love Letter “Dear Unformed Desire…” just out with the latest Brooklyn Rail.
2022/12/17 MORE TALKING
Presenting Fishing at The Young UABB Keynote Forum.
2022/12/11 (Beijing Time) MAKING Update
Becoming Lo Ting/ Fishing opening today at the 9th Bi-City Biennale of Urbanism and Architecture (UABB) in Shenzhen. Come inhabiting and becoming, and shoot us images and thoughts!
2022/12/06 MORE WRITING
Old Text Newly Out:
my theorization of “Valerio Olgiati’s Architecture of the Future Anterior” just published in Chinese with the latest issue of Time+Architecture.
2022/12/02 MORE WRITING
Published a little essay “Unfolding Borders and Typologies” reflecting with the recent Bechers Met exhibition and an ancient unbuilt border station design of mine: between Paraguay/Argentina, land/water, house/boat. Many thanks to the KoozArch editorial team, especially Francesca Romana Forlini and an anonymous peer reviewer.
2022/11/19 New Academic Appointment
Happy to announce that I will be returning to Harvard GSD next semester to teach an advanced elective seminar “Yeah, they were all Yellow: Asian Feminist Architectural Possibilities” mobilizing history/theory as well as design. It is part of the collective inquiry around this theme that I have been working on, such as with the upcoming CAA panel. Looking forward to more joining this effort and/or giving me recommendations for songs/podcasts for weekly drive commuting between NYC and Cambridge. Appreciate!
2022/11/11 MORE TALKING
Presenting at Frei Universität Berlin next Friday my ongoing thinking/inquiry around the power of silent/invisible Atmospheric Feminist Architecture with close readings of the media bodies, exhibition spaces, and presences/absences around UPenn's "Building in China" exhibition earlier this year.
2022/11/4 MORE TALKING
Presenting/thinking with IfWorks “Hystera” and “OrLand” for creative practices (art/architecture/activism) intervening “Architecture+Reproductive Justice” next Thursday, joining wonderful collective effort by Spitzer, Syracuse Architecture and Columbia GSAPP.
2022/10/4 MORE TALKING
I am giving a public lecture at CUNY next Tuesday, ”IfWorks,” presenting my recent PPT(Pedagogy/Practice/Theory). Warmly inviting everyone from NYC area to the 150ppl auditorium, and looking forward to your thoughts and conversations! It is said that there is free lunch provided by the school.
More info: https://ssa.ccny.cuny.edu/events/architecture-department-lunchtime-lecture-with-ruo-jia/
2022/9/28 MORE TALKING
Returning to Hong Kong University Architecture next week to deliver a lecture “IfWorks”, presenting my recent posthumanist feminist architectural theory/practice. Will tour back to NYC the week after, stay tuned!
2022/9/27 MORE MAKING
For Iran among others. My Ornamentalist Experiment at OrLand. Ins: orland.network
2022/9/23 MORE TALKING
Will be back at Princeton next Thursday for a book launch event of Radical Pedagogies! Come say hi and check it out, I’ll give a presentation on my article “Riding the Reformative Wave of Postmodern Theory,” looking into the 1980s China.
https://soa.princeton.edu/#3281
2022/9/22 MORE MAKING
Just released my photographic experiment “Profile Photo,“ check out and help me select one for my professional profile! Many thanks!
2022/9/2 New Academic Appointment
Also super happy to announce me joining Pratt Institute as Visiting Assistant Professor, teaching graduate h/t course “Six Crises of Representation in Architecture: How Canons are Formed, Dismantled, and Reformed,” lead by the great Catherine Ingraham. Proud that I was able to reform this canonical course through Asian Feminist and Posthumanist Theory, meanwhile, contribute specifically to decenter the Euro-American focused approach to Postmodernism with Expanded Field delivered by my research interweaving Chinese Experimental Architecture and French Poststructuralist Theory.
2022/8/23 New Academic Appointment
Super happy to share the news that I will be joining the Spritzer School of Architecture at City College, CUNY as Adjunct Assistant Professor to lead-instruct a 120 people undergraduate and graduate required lecture course “History of World Architecture I: Prehistory to 1400.” I have completely redesigned the syllabus and assignments with a posthumanist feminist critical approach to architectural history/theory intro that is inclusive, non-authoritarian, and decolonializing. This is an ambitious experiment I have longed for, incredibly grateful that I can have the opportunity. Will be giving my first lecture this Thursday on Haraway’s Situated Knowledge and Rella🐶’s Splitting Partial Vision✨
2022/7/28 MORE WRITING
And the English edition of “Post-Trauma“ is out:
Jia, Ruo. “Post-Trauma,“ Artishock Revista, https://artishockrevista.com/2022/07/28/post-trauma/
2022/7/27 MORE WRITING
Just released an article “Post-Trauma“ with Artishock Revista in Spanish on the recent art exhibition “Trama“ by María Gabler, translated and edited by Alejandra Villasmil.
2022/7/25 MORE MAKING
Me and Su Chang (IfWorks+Suchang Design) collaborated on an art/architectural installation, and will be realized in the upcoming Shenzhen Biennale. Our installation continues my research and theorization on post-humanist sustainability, providing an opportunity of “Becoming Lo Ting”. It enables participants to actively enroll in the construction of post-humanist and multi-subject environmental technologies. In doing so, they will reconnect with the half-fish half-human body in the cultural unconscious of the Pearl River Region, and explore a different attitude of inhabiting: “More is Balance.” Stay tuned!
2022/7/22 MORE MAKING
IfWorks released a new art/architectural installation: “Sound in My Wall.“
2022/7/21 MORE TALKING
I am chairing a panel in the 111th College Art Association (CAA) Annual Meeting Feb. 2023 in NYC, on the topic “Asian Feminist Architecture,” much of an effort in continuation of my dissertation and on-going research.
The Cfp is just out today, and is due August 31st, please share the info with who might be interested in contributing, many thanks and looking forward!
Call for Participation:
https://caa.confex.com/caa/2023/webprogrampreliminary/meeting.html
Panel Info:
https://caa.confex.com/caa/2023/webprogrampreliminary/Session11409.html