Juan Du has lived and worked in North America, Europe, and Asia, and founded her Hong Kong-based office, IDU, in 2006. She is currently professor and dean at the University of Toronto’s John H. Daniels Faculty of Architecture, Landscape, and Design, and has previously taught at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and the University of Hong Kong, where she remains an honorary professor and directs the Urban Ecologies Design Lab (UEDL). Through research, education, and design, Du explores architecture’s capacity for positive social and ecological impacts. She regularly collaborates with resident groups, social organizations, and public institutions on multi-scale and long-term projects advocating for communities struggling with rights to the city and adequate housing, including migrant workers, indigenous villagers, unhoused, refugees, and asylum seekers. Her work has been featured and exhibited internationally, and she has curated multiple exhibitions, including the 2010 Hong Kong Pavilion “Quotidian Architectures” at the Venice Biennale, and “Housing an Affordable City” at the 2011 Shenzhen Biennale of Urbanism\Architecture. Her book, The Shenzhen Experiment (Harvard University Press), received the 2020 Book of the Year Award for Interdisciplinary Research by ASU’s Institute for Humanities Research. Du is a recognized scholar on China’s architecture and urbanism and has been featured in The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, Financial Times, Foreign Affairs, CNN, Wired, and Nature.