Sean Yuxiang Li
Sean is an architect, artist, and researcher whose work investigates historical spatial practices that hold unthinkable yet lived contradictions. Grounded in architectural histories, they work through three threads: centring the margin, tracing the global route, and queering as an art of noticing. Their research asks how twentieth-century alternative spatial practices generate infrastructures of knowledge, and how these practices are made legible(co-opted) or disqualified within modern regimes of architectural expertise. Alongside historical work, Sean explores the (non)spatial toolkits through which contradictions acquire legibility and grievability, while insisting on the right to opacity.
Sean has presented and published at venues including the European Architectural History Network (2024), the ARCC–EAAE Conference (2023), the Jaap Bakema Study Centre (2025), and the International Night Studies Conference (2024), Magasin for Bygningskunst og Kultur and Kaark_Magasin. They have lectured and taught at Politecnico di Milano, ETH Zürich, the University of Copenhagen, the Royal Danish Academy, and the Copenhagen Architecture Festival. Ongoing NGO and volunteer work anchor this scholarship in community practice. architecture disobey.