Clément Renaud

Clément Renaud treats the computer as a writing system that organizes our worlds—across engineering, urban research, and practice in China since 2008. He teaches Chinese cities at Sciences Po’s Urban School, co-founded the Center for Blockchain and Generative Culture at City University of Hong Kong, and serves on the advisory board of the Fabricatorz Foundation. He is the author of Realtime: Making Digital China (EPFL Press) and is writing a history of computers from Shenzhen. For SCALE he co-organized Cryptology (Shenzhen, 2020), co-edited (UN)LOCKED: Memories of Wuhan with Dino Ge Zhang from a February 2020 open call during lockdown, contributed to SCALE Multiplier, and appeared in the 2019 weekly season.