Huishu DengHuishu 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”.
Alexandre ElsigAlexandre Elsig is a historian and a SNSF Ambizione Fellow (2020-2024) at the College of Humanities. He holds a PhD in history from the University of Fribourg (2014) and was Lecturer at the University of Lausanne, Fribourg and at the Swiss Distance University Institute. He was a Visiting Scholar at the Grenoble Alpes University and at the History of the Alps Study Centre in Mendrisio and Postdoctoral Researcher at the Interdisciplinary Centre for Mountain Research. His research interests cover the environmental and social history of industry and the history of knowledge and scientific controversies. His current research project is devoted to the regulation of industrial toxicity in the 20th century and will question the techno-scientific containment of this issue and the chronic impotence of many regulatory policies. He is a member of the Editorial Committee of the Journals traverse and Cahiers d'histoire du mouvement ouvrier and of the Executive Board of the RUCHE (Réseau universitaire de chercheurs en histoire environnementale) and the AEHMO (Association pour l'étude de l'histoire du mouvement ouvrier).
