Florence Graezer Bideau is Senior Scientist at the College of Humanities, EPFL, Visiting Professor at the Politecnico di Torino since 2015 and Associated Researcher at the China Room Research Group and South China-Torino Collaboration Lab since 2016. Her domains of expertise are the anthropology of East Asia, critical heritage studies and urban studies. She is 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.