Who Rules the Kitchen?
Her doctoral research focuses on Wenzhou households in contemporary China, using the kitchen as an entry point and following absence, intimacy, gendered labour, ritual and memory across domestic and resettled environments.
Combining autotheory and field research with spatial and visual practices such as essay film, photogrammetry and pop-up books, the project investigates how domestic spaces can be remembered, reconstructed and critically examined.
Research and methods
The project examines gendered domestic labour, ritual and everyday life, demolition and resettlement, and the relationship between memory and absence. Autotheory and site-writing inform experiments with essay film, photogrammetry and pop-up books as methods of architectural research.
Material from Shunde and self-comber kitchens provides a comparative perspective within this research.