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Lilian Chee is Associate Professor of Architectural Design and Visual Cultures at the National University of Singapore. A writer, curator, and award-winning educator, creative practitioner and researcher, she brings a distinctive interdisciplinary voice to architectural scholarship and creative practice. Her versatile university profile is distinguished by a rare combination of achievements across research excellence, award-winning creative practice, sustained pedagogical impact, and strategic academic leadership. She currently serves as Assistant Dean (Outreach) at the College of Design and Engineering, Co-Director of the Social Design Lab, and Leader of the Research by Design Cluster. Her research operates at the intersections of domesticity, affect, gender, and visual culture, with a strong focus on social and housing equity, politics of everyday life and care in the built environment. Her acclaimed film 03-FLATS (2014) has screened internationally and led to subsequent works such as Objects for Thriving (2022) and To Work At Home (2025). Her scholarly contributions include the methodologically acclaimed monograph Architecture and Affect: Precarious Spaces (Routledge, 2023) and the edited volume Remote Practices (Lund Humphries, 2022). She has held fellowships at FCL-ETH Centre, Heyman Centre Columbia University, and the Bartlett, UCL. A multi-award recipient of NUS’s highest teaching accolades and a leader in national-level funded research including the prestigious Social Science Thematic Research Grant, Dr Chee also holds a global research collaboration footprint and is recognised internationally for advancing architectural knowledge through feminist, creative, and socially engaged frameworks.

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