Lunch Hour Lecture | Building Better: The Case for Democratic Infrastructure

Associate Professor

Tse-Hui's background is in architecture and urban design. She completed her PhD research at the University College London in 2011. Prior to this she was a teaching and research fellow at Columbia University working on the Gateway National Recreation Area in New York City. She is a Fulbright scholar with a masters degree from Columbia University and first class honours degree from University of Technology Sydney. She has 10 years of professional experience in architecture, urban design and interior design in both private and government sectors. Her main research interests use a collective coevolution of actant trajectories framework. Firstly to understand the persistence and reconfiguration of urban form; and secondly to formulate new methods of public participation to create sustainable urban infrastructures. She has collaborated with archaeologists, hydrogeologists, archaeologists, artists, and engineers. She has won grants for research, public engagement, and collaborations with artists. Her research focusses on concerns about water, sanitation and wellbeing in the UK, Australia, and east-Africa. Her current research grants are as a co-investigator for CAMELLIA: Community water management for a liveable London, funded by the Natural Environment Research Council (NERC); and a principal investigator for a small grant Coevolving Sustainable Resilient Groundwater Systems in Uganda, funded by the Royal Academy of Engineering.