Hui-Yi Yang begins her PhD project at PRIVACY
On October 1st, Hui-Yi Yang's PhD project officially began. Yang has been at the Centre for Privacy studies for several months as a guest researcher, conducting her research in architectural history, but it was not until this fall that all the formalities came in order and she could officially start as a PhD student.
Yang describes her project as follows:
"My PhD project focuses on architectural history and light in architecture. My research is a comparative case study of sleeping and death rituals within the bed(room) at home. I aim to investigate the spatial environment for sleeping and death, and to examine how the light/darkness phenomena is shaped and its relation to privacy. The cases include the bed within the Siraya Ethnicity's House in Formosa (now Taiwan) during Dutch colonization (1624 to 1662) and the bed box of Rembrandt’s House during the residency of Rembrandt’s wife, Saskia (1639-1642)."