Realtime Making Digital China

Realtime is an investigation into China’s digital and urban infrastructure, practices, and imaginary spaces. It attempts to capture the pace, scale, and depth of China’s complex and changing reality. Realtime is a collection of original accounts, analyses, stories, articles, artworks, pictures, maps, illustrations, and materials collected by researchers and practitioners from various fields of design, geography, architecture, anthropology, economics, and art.

Clément Renaud is a technologist, scientist, and artist exploring new digital spaces and representations in China and worldwide. He is a research collaborator at the College of Humanities at EPFL, and a research associate at the Institute of Complex Systems (IXXI) at ENS de Lyon.

Florence Graezer Bideau is a senior scientist at the College of Humanities, EPFL, visiting professor at the Politecnico di Torino, and associated researcher at the China Room Research Group and South China-Torino Collaboration Lab. She was the principal investigator of the “Makerspaces, politics, and communities of innovation in contemporary China” project, financed by the Swiss National Science Foundation between 2016 and 2019.

Lecturer and research affiliate at the College of Humanities at EPFL, Marc Laperrouza explores different teaching formats with a particular interest in interdisciplinarity, project-based learning, and fieldwork.