Teaching
Urban Culture as Pedagogy
"I treat the classroom as a small ethnographic site — a place to slow down, look closely, and let students bring back what they find. My courses are built around making things: short documentaries, design proposals, walking essays, photographic series.
6
Courses taught
12
Theses supervised
4.7
Avg. eval (out of 5)
~340
Students taught
The classroom is also a city.
My students and I do walking ethnography in Shenzhen — Shajing's old village, Dafen oil-painting village, and the Shenzhen Museum.
No. 01Courses, by themeUpdated each semester
Theme I
Urban culture & sustainable futures
SUD5230Sustainable Cultural Futures
URM3110Urban History and Culture
URB5390Creative Cities and Cultural Industries
Theme II
Media studies
ENB3005Language and Media
GEC2404Social Media and Urban Youth Culture
Theme III
Research methods
URM3020Research Methods for Urban Studies
Creative Projects in Shajing
Ancient Market.
11 group films
creative renewal of urban historical spaces
creative renewal of urban historical spaces
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16:19
Group 1
AIGC动画短片《木石》|我在古城里，遇见了一个比这座城更古老的姑娘
Students · TBC
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11:28
Group 2
《沙井联盟1: 石 塔 守 护 者》
Students · TBC
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09:01
Group 3
龙大学生"探秘"植物染非遗！沙井陈师傅的染色魔法
Students · TBC
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06:16
Group 4
老有所依——沙井古墟适老化调查纪实
Students · TBC
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09:35
Group 5
如果用《中国好声音》的方式打开沙井生蚝
Students · TBC
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09:58
Group 6
探索沙井蚝记忆
Students · TBC
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09:55
Group 7
千年蚝乡的色彩浪漫｜沙井古墟ColorWalk打卡合集
Students · TBC
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10:07
Group 8
《沙井古墟》——互动式游戏
Students · TBC
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08:29
Group 9
大学生小组作业求求了看看吧
Students · TBC
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11:22
Group 10
深圳有座千年蚝乡，藏在城中村里，快被遗忘了。
Students · TBC
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06:11
Group 11
「变与不变的乘积」走进沙井古墟的灵魂方程式
Students · TBC
Creative Projects in Dafen
Oil Painting Village.
4 group projects
reproduction, labor, authenticity
reproduction, labor, authenticity
Project 1
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Project 2
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Project 3
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Project 4
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CUHK-Shenzhen Campus as Interactive Games.
3 group projects
Project 1
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Project 2
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Project 3
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No. 04Students Project Photos
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Undergraduate supervision
5 students · 2024–2026
Costume rental economies in Caoxian
Lin Yuxi
Urban Studies
Costume rental economies in Caoxian
→ MSc, LSE2025
Livestream commerce in Yiwu
Wu Jiacheng
Urban Studies
Livestream commerce in Yiwu
→ MA, NYU2024
Walking ethnography of Shajing
Zhao Yuxuan
SUD
Walking ethnography of Shajing
→ MA, Cambridge2025
Micro-drama labour in Changsha
Pan Zihan
Communication
Micro-drama labour in Changsha
→ Industry · Tencent2025
Du Fu's birthplace shrine
Sun Tianyi
SUD
Du Fu's birthplace shrine
→ Currently writing—
Master's supervision
6 students · 2023–2026
Photographic ritual in Kaifeng
Hu Jiaqi
SUD MSc
Photographic ritual in Kaifeng
Algorithmic ritual in livestream
Liang Wei
Communication
Algorithmic ritual in livestream
Heritage tourism in Quanzhou
Tang Mei
SUD MSc
Heritage tourism in Quanzhou
AI drama production lines
Yu Hao
Communication
AI drama production lines
Panda fan rituals online
Hong Min
Anthropology
Panda fan rituals online
Group livestream choreography
Lu Xinyi
SUD MSc
Group livestream choreography
What students say.
"Erika's class is the only one where we actually go outside. We walked Shajing for three hours and I haven't stopped thinking about it."
SUD5230 · 2024 spring
"She makes you think the city is a text. Then she makes you think you can write it back."
URM3110 · 2024 fall
"Most caring supervisor I have had. Pushed my thesis from a B to a clear distinction."
UG thesis · 2025
"她的课让我重新认识了深圳。"
URB5390 · 2023
"Best research-methods class I've taken at CUHKSZ — practical and rigorous in equal measure."
URM3020 · 2024
"Erika's pedagogy is built around making things. We made a film, a walking guide, and a small zine — and learned more than from any lecture."
SUD5230 · 2025
"Erika's class is the only one where we actually go outside. We walked Shajing for three hours and I haven't stopped thinking about it."
SUD5230 · 2024 spring
"She makes you think the city is a text. Then she makes you think you can write it back."
URM3110 · 2024 fall
"Most caring supervisor I have had. Pushed my thesis from a B to a clear distinction."
UG thesis · 2025
"她的课让我重新认识了深圳。"
URB5390 · 2023
"Best research-methods class I've taken at CUHKSZ — practical and rigorous in equal measure."
URM3020 · 2024
"Erika's pedagogy is built around making things. We made a film, a walking guide, and a small zine — and learned more than from any lecture."
SUD5230 · 2025