Florence Graezer Bideau is a senior scientist at the College of Humanities, EPFL, visiting professor at the Politecnico di Torino, and associated researcher at the China Room Research Group and South China-Torino Collaboration Lab. She was the principal investigator of the “Makerspaces, politics, and communities of innovation in contemporary China” project, financed by the Swiss National Science Foundation between 2016 and 2019.