Realtime – Making Digital China

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. Marc Laperrouza is a scientist and lecturer at the College of Humanities, EPFL and at HEC, University of Lausanne. He was co-investigator of the “Makerspaces, politics, and communities of innovation in contemporary China.”

• Introduction / 01 The Ascent of Digital Technology in China / 02 Planning: From Model to Modules / 03 Producing Standardization: Chinese Blocks in Networks / 04 An Archeology of Shanzhai Phones / 05 The Ghosts of Shenzhen / 06 Learning About Makers in China / 07 China.ai / 08 The Armatures of a New Autonomous Urbanism / 09 Speed Politics of Danmu / 10 Future Recipes / Conclusion