Helena ROUX
Helena Roux is a Phd student in urban geography. She did her master's degree in urban studies at the University of Lyon, during which she had the opportunity to live in China, and to work as an intern at WHITRAP Shanghai (World Heritage Center for Training and Research in Asia and Pacific) in 2019. She worked on public heritage policies in the Yangtze River Delta Water Towns, on Historic Urban Landscape approach and implementation, and did her master’s thesis on industrial heritage and the M50 study case in Shanghai. Her research interests include heritage conservation and heritage policies, industrial spaces and creative clusters and their integration on urban development projects, alternative cultures and uses of the urban space. She is now a doctoral assistant at EPFL for the SNSF project entitled “Uses of cultural heritage at the Beijing Winter Olympic Games of 2022", at the Institute for Area and Global Studies (IAGS). She started her Phd in June 2020.