Huishu Deng
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”.