WHEREABOUTS
Sean Yuxiang Li/ in English
Søren Li / på dansk
李宇翔/ 中文
Sean s work investigates the cultural role and meaning of (pre)informal architecture and alternative urban history, with a particular focus on the (dis)entanglement of alternative urban spaces, androgynous spatiality, and diasporic domesticity. They want to rethink how we can understand and engage with inherited urban landscapes by exploring historical spatial practices that embody unthinkable yet lived contradictions. Sean’s research also probes the (non)spatial toolkits that make such contradictions intelligible and grievable, while preserving the right to opacity.
Sean is an architect, artist, and research assistant at the University of Copenhagen in collaboration with the Museum of Copenhagen, have lectured at ETH, the University of Copenhagen, The Royal Danish Academy, and the Copenhagen Architecture Festival.. Sean’s ongoing involvement with NGOs and volunteer organizations further demonstrates their commitment to bridging critical scholarship and hands-on community engagement
architecture disobeys.
+45 91191535
yuxiangli@ign.ku.dk
yli@arkitekterudengraenser.dk
liyuxiangsean@gmail.com
https://www.instagram.com/seanandxiang/
WORKS
architecture/ art/ exhibitions
01. On Squatting as a Spatial Practice.
02. The Habitatory
03. Clan. Community. Countryside
04. Dense yet Sparse
05. Authoritarian Boundaries, Fake Ones
06. Playable, Watchable, Walkable
07. Everyday Monumentality
"Dubious Architecture", P-L-A-T-F-O-R-M.DK.
Online in August 2024, on- site in January 2025. Copenhagen.
"Byen i Dig" (City in You), PROSPEKT SPACE, Copenhagen, September.
"Om at Organisere Arkitektur" (On Organizing Architecture),
WORKS+WORDS, Rundetaarn, Copenhagen, December.
WORDS
publications/ research
"Nighttime, Discreet Time, Not-so-proud Time, On
queering as an art of noticing"
International Night Studies Conference (ICNS) 2024
"Diasporic Domesticity: Three Asian Brides Named May"
Edinburgh Architecture Research Journal
" Androgynous Spatiality Through Urban Squatting." European Architectural History Network (EAHN) 2024
"Unveiling Transformative Urban Dynamics: The Symbiosis of Squatting Movement and Urban Renewal in Copenhagen's Architectural Landscape."
the European Association for Architectural Education and the Architectural Research Centres Consortium(EAAE and ARCC) 2024
"Stop Painting, Stop Building."
Magasin for Bygningskunst og Kultur 7. (Magazine for Architecture and Culture) April
"Building Space of Appearance Together- On Squatting
as Spatial Practices."
Magasin for Bygningskunst og Kultur 5. March
"FREJA - Socratic Yet Hedonistic."
Magasin for Bygningskunst og Kultur 4. October
"Grass, Soil, Teahouse, A Romanticised Sustainability." KÅRK: Kaark_Magasin no. 41. July
"The True Void."
KÅRK: Kaark_Magasin no. 40.
WORLD-MAKING
volunteering / teaching / affiliating
Key member, the Diversity & Equality Platform, Akademisk Arkitektforening / the Danish Association of Architects
Key member, Architects without Borders Denmark
Volunteer for Caritas Retshjælp
Volunteer for Bridge to China Charitable Foundation (HK)
Volunteer for the Shanshui Conservation Centre
Volunteer for teaching in the poverty-stricken areas in China with Hongtu Aid Education Association
Lecturer in Material and Artful Approaches (Advanced Migration Studies Program), SAXO Institute, University of Copenhagen
Keynote for the seminar at CIRCLES@, University of Copenhagen,
Keynote for "Building Diversity Sharing," by Building Diversity
Keynote for "Queering Space, Queering as an Art of Noticing," Copenhagen Architecture Festival X Film Mosaic,
Keynote "On Squatting as an Alternative Urban History" for Fællesskaber I Forandring – En aftenskole at Kapelvej 44.
Host for "Local and International Perspectives in the
World Capital of Architecture," with UIA (International Union of Architects) &Akademisk Arkitektforening (the Danish Association of Architects), at the World Congress of Architects,
"The Unique Case of Urban Renewal in Copenhagen," podcast episode in collaboration with Niels Bjørn and Københavns Kommune