Assistant Professor  

Research Interest

Urban Imaginary & Media Culture Lab

Cinematic urbanism

Filmic tourism

Medium and environment studies

Contemporary pan-Chinese urbanism

Urban Imaginary

Participatory and community design

Cultural governance

Office: R351-2  

Phone Number：02-27712171 #2913 

E-mail：yingfenchen@ntut.edu.tw 

Professional Experience  

Assistant Professor in the Department of Architecture, National Taipei University of Technology (2022.02-) 

Post-doctoral Fellow, Graduate Institute of Building and Planning, National Taiwan University (2021.09-2022.01) 

Post-doctoral Fellow in the School of Architecture, The Chinese University of Hong Kong (2019.08-2021.08) 

Haas Junior Scholars, UC-Berkeley (2017.08-2018.05) 

Co-Program Director, 24th North American Taiwan Studies Association Annual Conference (2017.06-2018.05) 

Research Assistant, Building and Planning Research Foundation, A Not-for-Profit Organization at National Taiwan University (2010.07-2011.06) 

Internship, J.J. Pan and Partners, Architects and Planners (2002-2008) 

Education  

PhD of Architecture, University of California at Berkeley 

M.S. of Engineering: Graduate Institute of Building and Planning, National Taiwan University 

B.S. of Engineering: Civil Engineering, National Taiwan University  

Honors and Fellowships  

Government Scholarship to Study Abroad by the Ministry of Education, Taiwan (2017.08-2019. 05) 

UC-Berkeley, Dr. and Mrs. James C.Y. Soong Fellowships (2017.08-2018.05) 

UC-Berkeley, Center for Chinese Studies, ROC Fellowship (2016.08-2017.07) 

Berkeley Fellowship for Graduate Study (2012.08-2014.07) 

Student Financial Assistance, Conference of Environmental Design Research Association (2008.05) 

Specialties  

Cinematic Urbanism Studies, Cinematic Tourism, Medium and Environment Studies, Contemporary pan-Chinese Urbanism, Studies of Urban Imaginary, Participatory and Community Design, Cultural Governance and Creative Industry. 

Publications  

Academic Publications  

Tieben, H., Chen, Y. F. (2021) “Reflections on Emerging Public Space Design Approaches in Hong Kong” in Mitrasinovic, M., Jachna, T. Ed. The Emerging Public Realm of the Greater Bay Area: Approaches to Public Space in a Chinese Megaregion. Routledge.  

Chen, Y. F., Cheung, Y. S., Tieben, H. (2020). Observations on Access and Use of Public Space during COVID-19 in Hong Kong and Taipei, The Journal of Public Space, 5(3), 91-104.  

Chen, Y. F. (2019). Contemporary Pan-Chinese Cinematic Urbanism in Taiwan and Hong Kong, PhD Dissertation.  

Chen, Y. F. (2011). The Constructing and Changing of Cinematic Hong Kong through the Taiwanese Cult Following’s Eyes, Master Thesis. 

Kuo, Y. T., Chen, Y. J., Chen, Y. F. (2010). “Four Communities, Five Factors.” Sustainable Landscapes, Sustainable Communities, The Record of the 7th Pacific Rim Community Design Network Conference, Awaji, Japan. 

陳盈棻（2010）。《歲月神偷》——能否從懷舊城市走出香港在地樣貌？。文化研究月報，（106），23-26。 

Conference Papers 研討會論文 

Tieben, H., Chen, Y. F. (2021, May). Emerging Public Space Design Practices in Hong Kong. Paper presented at Making Place in the Greater Bay Area International Symposium, Online.  

Chen, Y. F. (2021, April). Hong Kong Cinema after 2007: Nostalgic Genre, Preservation Movement, and Development of Localism. Paper presented at PhD Symposium 2021, School of Architecture CUHK, Online.  

Chen, Y. F. (2021, March). The Top-down and Bottom-up Approaches of Cinematic Historiography in the Contemporary Taipei. Paper presented at the Society of Cinema and Media Studies Conference, Online. 

陳盈棻（2020年9月）。防疫治理與共同體裂解形塑：香港與台灣每日疫情記者會比較研究。女學學會，台南。 

Chen, Y. F. (2020, April). (Re)constructing Imaginaries of International Harbor City upon the Post-industrial Kaohsiung: A Trial-and-Error Process of Film Policy Making Intertwining with Place-marketing. Paper presented at the Media Industries Studies Conference, London (cancelled according to COVID-19 epidemic). 

陳盈棻（2020年3月）。重寫一頁浪漫的城市形象：解構台北市電影補助政策與電影行銷城市策略。文化研究年會，台北（cancelled according to COVID-19 epidemic）。  

Chen, Y. F. (2019, April). Nostalgic Imagination and Historical Preservation: A Cinematic Intervention of the Heritage Reuse Project in Hong Kong. Paper presented at the Society of Cinema and Media Studies Conference, Seattle. 

Chen, Y. F. (2018, December). A Bottom-up Approach of Filmic Tourism Affecting Placemaking in Taipei, Kaohsiung, and Hong Kong. Paper presented at the Pacific Rim Community Design Network Conference, Singapore. 

Chen, Y. F. (2018, August). A Top-down Contemporary Cinematic Urban Imaginary Making/Marketing in Taipei. Paper presented at the Crossroad Cultural Studies Conference, Shanghai. 

Chen, Y. F. (2018, April). Nostalgic Imagination, Historical Preservation: A Cinematic Intervention of Urban Process in Hong Kong. Paper presented at the Placing Asia, UC-Berkeley Haas Junior Scholars Conference, Berkeley.  

Chen, Y. F. (2017, October). Cinema Intervenes in City Planning: Envisioning Kaohsiung through Filmic Harbor City. Paper presented at the 7th National Conference on Planning History. Society for American City and Regional Planning History, Cleveland.  

Chen, Y. F. (2017, August). When Nostalgic Film Genre Intervenes into Historical Neighborhood Preservation and Tourism in Hong Kong and Taipei. Paper presented at the Conference of Remapping the Arts, Heritage, and Cultural Production: Between Policies and Practices in East and Southeast Asian Cities, Asian Research Institute at the National University of Singapore, Singapore.  

Chen, Y. F. (2015, June). Defamiliarizing Everyday Environments and Remapping Cinematic Locales: Taipei’s Film-Induced Tourism Strategy in Au Revoir Taipei. Paper presented at the Annual conference of North American Taiwan Studies Association, Cambridge. 

Chen, Y. F. (2012, October). The Constructing and Changing of Cinematic Hong Kong through the Taiwanese Cult Following’s Eyes. Paper presented at the Biennial conference of the International Association for the Study of Traditional Environments (IASTE), Portland. 

Chen, Y. F. (2011, March). The Constructing and Changing of Cinematic Hong Kong through the Taiwanese Cult Following’s Eyes. Paper presented at the Annual conference of the Cultural Study of Taiwan, Taipei. 

Kuo, Y. T., Chen, Y. J., Chen, Y. F. (2010, September). Four Communities, Five Factors. Paper presented at the 7th Pacific Rim Community Design Network Conference, Awaji. 

Tsai, S. W., Chen, Y. F., Lin Y. R., Chen, W. N. (2008, May). A Representation of Hong Kong Space: Modeling in West Kowloon Cultural Landscape. Paper presented at the Conference of Environmental Design Research Association (EDRA), Veracruz, Mexico. 

Non-Academic Articles 非學術專文 

陳小易（2021）。紀實的空間或虛構的舞台：影像如何介入台北都市拆遷保存運動？關鍵評論，2021年3月28日。https://www.thenewslens.com/article/146029 (原文“紀實與虛構—影像再現介入台北都市拆遷保存運動的影響與侷限”刊載於眼底城市 2020年9月專題：https://eyesonplace.net/2020/09/23/15364/ ) 

陳小易 譯（2020）。「連結公民與日常的數位治理：與唐鳳談疫情下的公民科技與公共領域」第三篇 自主．透明．合作的公共治理。眼底城市，2021年2月。https://eyesonplace.net/2021/02/02/16341/  

陳小易 譯（2020）。「連結公民與日常的數位治理：與唐鳳談疫情下的公民科技與公共領域」第二篇 公共領域的創新突破。眼底城市，2021年2月。https://eyesonplace.net/2021/02/02/16323/  

陳小易 譯（2020）。「連結公民與日常的數位治理：與唐鳳談疫情下的公民科技與公共領域」第一篇 疫情與數位治理。眼底城市，2021年2月。https://eyesonplace.net/2021/02/01/16312/  

陳小易（2020）。九月專題導論：電影與城市研究漫談。眼底城市，2020年9月號。https://eyesonplace.net/2020/09/02/15210/  

陳小易（2020）。一個留學生的文化美食地圖：以飲食辨識舊金山灣區的精神。關鍵評論，2020年12月12日。https://www.thenewslens.com/article/144484 （原文“移民風味與在地農作物直通餐桌的舊金山美食身世”刊載於眼底城市 2020年6月專題：https://eyesonplace.net/2020/06/10/14468/ ） 

陳小易（2018）。院線影評／《厭世媽咪日記》：平凡溫馨故事的後青春期啟示。娛樂重擊（2018/05/10）。https://punchline.asia/archives/50506  

陳小易，punkelephant（2017）。寶可夢訓練師的步行城市觀察。眼底城市，2017年10月號。https://eyesonplace.net/2017/10/30/6679/?doing_wp_cron=1592704906.8870179653167724609375  

陳小易（2017）。讓電影散策帶你去看舊城身世。眼底城市，2017年4月號。https://eyesonplace.net/2017/04/24/5244/  

陳小易（2016）。難尋《獨一無二》的在地電影城市美學。眼底城市，2016年4月號。https://eyesonplace.net/2016/04/20/1835/  

陳小易（2016）。院線影評／《你的名字》：以科幻手法帶出真實的情感救贖。娛樂重擊（2016/10/16）。https://punchline.asia/archives/33469