Daitianchen

• 03/2020 – 11/2021   Postdoctoral Researcher,Faculty of Architecture and the Built Environment, Delft Technical University, The Netherlands

• 03/2014 – 12/2019   Ph.D, Department of Architecture, Southeast University, China

• 11/2016 – 11/2018   Visiting Researcher, Faculty of Architecture and the Built Environment, Delft Technical University, The Netherlands

• 09/2011 – 12/2012   M.Arch, Bartlett School of Architecture, University College London, UK
  

• 09/2008 – 06/2011   B.Arch (Hons 2:1), R.I.B.A. Part I, Department of Built Environment, University of Nottingham, UK

Tianchen Dai was born in October 1989, Nanjing, China. She holds a Ph.D. in Architecture from the Southeast University, China. She received M.Arch from Bartlett School of Architecture, University College London, UK, and B.Arch from Department of Built Environment, University of Nottingham, UK. She worked as a visiting researcher from 2016 to 2018 at Faculty of Architecture and the Built Environment, Delft Technical University, The Netherlands, where she worked as a postdoctoral researcher again from March 2020 to November 2021 on the project “Port City Futures”, initiated by the Leiden-Delft-Erasmus Centers. She researches how the cultural and social identity of urban landscapes are shaped and delivered to people. Her specific research interests lie in the spatial narration of urban landscapes, and its impact on the formation of mindset, city image, and behavioural intention.

Conservation of port-city heritage; Spatial narration of historic urban landscape; City image

Landscape design; Creative thinking; Spatial imaging; Conservation and revival of urban water heritage