September 2026

Shirley Dongwei Chen is invited to Roundtable as a part of “A Good Idea: Drawings in the Making,” moderated by Sarah Hearne and Claire Glass, Market Station, Denver, September, 2026, along with Paul Andersen (Independent Architecture), Morgane Copp (Young & Ayata), Kevin Hirth, Alex Yueyan Li (11×17), Rick Sommerfeld (Colorado Building Workshop).

February 2026

Shirley Dongwei Chen presented papers at National Conference on the Beginning Design Student (NCBDS) 41: Projective Environments, Albuquerque, New Mexico.

January 2026

Shirley Dongwei Chen receives CU President’s Fund for the Humanities($10,580) for podcast project A Table for Three. A Table for Three  is a curated podcast and public-conversation series that explores intelligence as a spatial practice.

December 2025

Shirley Dongwei Chen receives Center for Excellence in Teaching and Learning (CETL) Teaching Innovation Grants for course development.

October 2025

Shirley Dongwei Chen receives Arts and Humanities Seed Grants ($5,000) by University of Colorado Denver, Office of Research Services for Home Elevation.

August 2025

Shirley Dongwei Chen joins University of Colorado Denver, College of Architecture and Planning , Department of Architecture as Assistant Professor.

May 2026

Home Elevation, design and curated by DoZa, opens at CU Experiment Gallery, Denver, Colorado. Fabric Design and Installation: Max Bravo (Studio Everyone), Research and Fabrication Assistants: Clayton Matthews, Catherine Nguyen, Em Booth.

Shirley Dongwei Chen presents “Wall Talks” on behalf of DoZa at Practice in Research#7:  Un-disclosed, Brussels, Belgium. Conference supported by : ULB, KU Leuven, ULiège, UCLouvain, UAntwerpen, Politecnico di Torino, Kanal Architecture, FNRS, As Found Scientific Research Network.

May 2025

“Home Elevation,” installation by DoZa included in Biennale d'architecture et de paysage d'Île de France (BAP! 2025), Versailles, France.

April 2025

Shirley Dongwei Chen contributes “Observation on Winter Garden Palms” in LOG 63, Winter/Spring 2025. Anyone Corporation.

March 2025

Shirley Dongwei Chen presents paper “From Ivrea to Massa: The Rise and Fall of Olivetti Company Towns” at ACSA 113 : Repair, Association of Collegiate Schools of Architecture, 2025, New Orleans, LA.

February 2025

Shirley Dongwei Chen presents two papers National Conference on the Beginning Design Student (NCBDS) 40: Tool(ing), North Carolina State University College of Design, Raleigh, NC.

Shirley Dongwei Chen presents works for National Organization of Minority Architects Women History Month Panel Talk, Texas A&M University, Invitation by Professor Marcelo Lopez-Dinardi. College Station, TX, April 2025.

January 2025

“Resident Alien,” architecture photography by Shirley Dongwei Chen included in New Lands, Shared Roots, Telos Haus Gallery, New York, NY, US 

Shirley Dongwei Chen contributes “Marble Diary” to Rumor, no. 41. Princeton School of Architecture.

December 2024

Shirley Dongwei Chen publishes “Thermal Comfort” in LUNCH Journal, no. 18: Everyday (2025): 174–79.Edited by Margaret Saunders, Michael Schaefer-Friedman, Benjamin Jacobs, Sofia Kuspan, Sophie Maffie, and Sam Rosner. University of Virginia School of Architecture. Publisher: Applied Research & Design.

August 2024

Shirley Dongwei Chen Texas A&M University College of Architecture as Assistant Professor of Practice.

June 2024

Shirley Dongwei Chen publishes “’I Will Keep You in the Loop’ : The Dumbwaiter and Modern Bureaucracy in America” in POOL, no. 9: Loop (2024): 22–23. Edited by Jenny Lee, Hunter Blackwell, and Alexandra Ferrelra.UCLA AU.D. Printed.

May 2024

Shirley Dongwei Chen and Maria Espinoza contribute “How to Bake a Float” to Room One Thousand, no. 12: Chop Chop! (2024): 116–29. Edited by Jackie Zhao, Larry Peifer, Laurenne Ross, and Clare Coburn. University of California, Berkeley, CED. Printed.

June 2024

Shirley Dongwei Chen receives the Avery Review Essay prize and contributes “Dumbwaiter in America” to The Avery Review, no. 67 (2024), edited by Tizziana Baldenebro, Aleksandr Bierig, Joanna Joseph, and Isabelle C Kirkham-Lewitt. Office of Publications at Columbia University's Graduate School of Architecture, Planning and Preservation.

September 2023

“The Tale of Mechanical Turk Revisited,” drawing by Shirley Dongwei Chen included inTrinity Buoy Drawing Prize Traveling Exhibition. Exhibited galleries include: Trinity Buoy Wharf, London (2023.9-10); TheGallery at Arts University Bournemouth, Poole (2024.2-4); The Levinsky Gallery, at The Arts Institute, Plymouth University, Devon (2024.5-6);  The Turnpike Gallery, Wigan (2024. 7-9).

April 2023

Tengku Sharil Bin Tengku Abdul Kadir, and Shirley Dongwei Chen. “Augmented Participatory Design: Collective Public Space Remodeling.” In Proceeding for Repurposing Places for Social and Environmental Resilience Conference, 141–44, edited by Anastasia Karandinou. London, United Kingdom: Counter Architecture, in collaboration with UEL and Arup, 2023.

March 2023

“Working Interiors,” thesis project included in group exhibition organized by Princeton School of Architecture at a83 gallery, New York.

October 2022

“Kartli Archive,” digital archive, drawing set, and video installation by DoZa included Tbilisi Architecture Biennial 2022, and Untitled Gallery, Tbilisi, Georgia. Work selected through global open call.

May 2022

Shirley Dongwei Chen presents“Import: Paustian Showroom”  in Session Utzonia: From/To Denmark with Love. Invitation by Dr. Angela Gigliotti and Troels Rugbjerg. Presented at the Southern Sweden Design Days, London, UK, May 2022.

April 2022

Shirley Dongwei Chen, along with Matthew Phillip Anderson, Caitlin Elizabeth Kennedy, Glenn Gundelach-Taabbel, Janne Nørreskov Buhardt, Amalie Aass Frank, and Malthe Mølkær Andreassen contributed drawing project“Paustian Showroom” to Utzonia: From/to Denmark with Love, edited by Angela Gigliotti and Troels Rugbjerg. Babel International. Trento, Italy: List Lab, 2022.

March 2022

Shirley Dongwei Chen contributed “Lost Figures” to Paprika! , Vol. 7, no. 6: Missed Calls (2022). Yale University School of Architecture. Printed.