Understanding the Chinese City
2021                         

Esther Lorenz, “Anonymity in Jianghu: Hong Kong’s Public Space in Times of Crisis,” paper presentation, international conference, Public Space: the Real and the Ideal, The International Society for the Philosophy of Architecture, Monte Verità, Switzerland

2020

Shiqiao Li, “Does the 'Asian City' Exist?”, International Institute of Asian (IIAS), the Netherlands.

2017

Shiqiao Li, “Empire of Figures”, AA School of Architecture, London

2015

Shiqiao Li, Short course on Understanding the Chinese City, Southeast University

2013

Esther Lorenz, “Rivers and Lakes: The Other Spaces of Hong Kong”, symposium, Spectacular/Ordinary/Contested Media City, Helsinki Collegium for Advanced Studies

2010                         

Esther Lorenz, “Another Culture: Perspectives on Hong Kong”, public lecture, Master Lecture Series, Faculty of Architecture, TU Graz

2008

Shiqiao Li, “The Cathartic City”, TU Delft and Berlage Institute, Hong Kong

The Chinese Cosmopolitan City
2020

Shiqiao Li and Esther Lorenz, “The Chinese Cosmopolitan City”, speakers and panelists, Southern China Metropolis: The Urbanism of the Greater Bay Area, NYIT-Tsinghua University Symposium

2009

Esther Lorenz, “Service Space”, paper presentation, 4th Conference of the International Forum on Urbanism (IFoU), Delft, Netherlands, Organizer: IFoU

Emerging Urban Typologies

Kowloon Cultural District
2017

Shiqiao Li and Esther Lorenz, “Kowloon Cultural District”, Kent University, School of Architecture, Canterbury, UK

Real Image, Fake Estate
2012     

Esther Lorenz, “Simulated Residential Architecture in Hong Kong”, paper presentation, international conference at CRASSH: Still Architecture: Photography, Vision and Cultural Transmission, Cambridge, Organizer: Department of Architecture, University of Cambridge

Esther Lorenz,“Real Image, Fake Estate”, paper presentation, 6th International Conference on Design Principles and Practices, Los Angeles, Organizer: CG Publisher

The Return of the Literati

Modern Chinese Historiography

Kinesthetic Montage Hong Kong
2020

Esther Lorenz, “Architectural and Design Research through the Creative Use of Film,” paper presentation, international conference, Connections: Exploring Heritage, Architecture, Cities, Art, Media, AMPS (Architecture, Media, Politics, Society), Canterbury, UK

2019

Esther Lorenz, “Kinesthetic Montage Hong Kong”, speaker and panelist New Practices in Hong Kong Architecture: A Symposium, convened by Barry Bergdoll and Seng Kuan, Center for Architecture, AIA, New York

2018

Esther Lorenz, “Hong Kong: Corporeal City”, public lecture, Faculty Forum, East Asia Center, University of Virginia

2017  

Esther Lorenz, “Kinesthetic City”, paper presentation, Center for Asian Architecture 2nd International Conference, Southeast University, Nanjing, China

Against Ontology