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."

Realtime is an investigation into ChinaâEUR(TM)s digital and urban infrastructure, practices, and imaginary spaces. It attempts to capture the pace, scale, and depth of ChinaâEUR(TM)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.