Jae-Young Elisabeth Lee
Associated Researcher | Economy and Civil Society
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Jae-Young Lee joined IRS in February 2022 as part of the research area “Economy and Civil Society” within the subproject “Peripheralized Rural Areas: Digitalization and the Constructions of Space” of the DFG-funded collaborative research center “Re-figuration of Spaces”. She received her Master’s degree in architecture from Bauhaus-University Weimar in 2018. In her thesis work she studied the development of living typologies in the narrative of urbanization in Myanmar, where she works as architect and part of the local NGO Gyaw Gyaw since 2016. From 2018 to 2021 she also worked at PartnerundPartner architects focusing on user-centered low-tech building solutions. As a researcher she is interested in the interface between new and established spatial knowledge and spatial practices regarding building typologies in peripheralized rural spaces.

Projects

Completed Third-party Funded Projects

Peripheralised Rural Areas: Digitalisation and Spatial Constructions

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Completed Qualification Projects

What we do at the ‚Peripheries’: Negotiating Urbanization and Place in Mountainous Rural Areas through Digital Economies (Working title

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Selected Publications by Year

2025
Lee, J-Y. (2025). Experimental Mapping: Urban Experiences in a Mountainous Rural Place in South Korea. In J-S. Baxter, A. J. Heinrich, S. Marguin, & V. Sommer (Eds.), Spacetimes Matter: A Collection of Mapping Methodologies (pp. 45-60). Jovis.
Lee, J-Y. (2025, Jan 10). What does Theory have to do with Anything? Between our Theoretical Ruminations on “Ruralities” and Spatial Practices at the Rural Thai-Myanmar Border. https://sfb1265.de/blog/what-does-theory-have-to-do-with-anything-between-our-theoretical-ruminations-on-ruralities-and-spatial-practices-at-the-rural-thai-myanmar-border/
Christmann, G., & Lee, J-Y. E. (2025). Über Digitalisierungen und die Refiguration peripherer ländlicher Räume: Beobachtungen am Beispiel von Deutschland, Chile und Südkorea. In J. Kibel, N. M., S. Steets, & G. Weidenhaus (Eds.), Figuring Out Spaces: Über die Sozialität von Räumen und die Räumlichkeit des Sozialen (pp. 235-258). (Re-Figuration von Räumen; Vol. 8). Transcript.
2024
Christmann, G., & Lee, J-Y. E. (2024). Wie disruptiv ist ländlicher Wandel? IRS aktuell, (102), 24-29. https://leibniz-irs.de/fileadmin/user_upload/IRS_Aktuell/102/IRS_aktuell_No_102.pdf
Christmann, G., Dihlmann, C-J., Helbrecht, I., Kibel, J., Korte, E., & Lee, J-Y. E. (2024). Ländlichkeiten: Konstruktionen von ländlichen Räumen und ihre Refiguration in Chile, China, Deutschland, Kanada, Kenia und Südkorea. (Working Paper SFB 1265; No. 15). Universitätsverlag der Technischen Universität Berlin. https://doi.org/10.14279/depositonce-20609
Walter, J. (Producer), Hecht, C. (Performer), Lee, J-Y. E. (Performer), & Pohl, S. (Performer). (2024). Multiple Spatialities 3: Digitalisierte Räume. Digital or Visual Products https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HGs2mHkcRl0
2023
Lee, J-Y. E., & Lauer, C. (2023, Aug 21). Was beschäftigt ... Jae-Young Lee. https://sfb1265.de/blog/es-ist-meine-aufgabe-ebenso-dinge-von-mir-preiszugeben/
Lee, J-Y. E., & Sungwon Ryu (2023, Dec 1). Chasing the Elephant: "Digitalization" in Rural Everyday Life in South Korea. https://sfb1265.de/blog/chasing-the-elephant-grasping-digitalization-in-rural-everyday-life-in-south-korea/

Selected Publications by Type

Contribution to Anthology
Lee, J-Y. (2025). Experimental Mapping: Urban Experiences in a Mountainous Rural Place in South Korea. In J-S. Baxter, A. J. Heinrich, S. Marguin, & V. Sommer (Eds.), Spacetimes Matter: A Collection of Mapping Methodologies (pp. 45-60). Jovis.
Christmann, G., & Lee, J-Y. E. (2025). Über Digitalisierungen und die Refiguration peripherer ländlicher Räume: Beobachtungen am Beispiel von Deutschland, Chile und Südkorea. In J. Kibel, N. M., S. Steets, & G. Weidenhaus (Eds.), Figuring Out Spaces: Über die Sozialität von Räumen und die Räumlichkeit des Sozialen (pp. 235-258). (Re-Figuration von Räumen; Vol. 8). Transcript.
Contribution to Forum or Blog
Lee, J-Y. (2025, Jan 10). What does Theory have to do with Anything? Between our Theoretical Ruminations on “Ruralities” and Spatial Practices at the Rural Thai-Myanmar Border. https://sfb1265.de/blog/what-does-theory-have-to-do-with-anything-between-our-theoretical-ruminations-on-ruralities-and-spatial-practices-at-the-rural-thai-myanmar-border/
Lee, J-Y. E., & Lauer, C. (2023, Aug 21). Was beschäftigt ... Jae-Young Lee. https://sfb1265.de/blog/es-ist-meine-aufgabe-ebenso-dinge-von-mir-preiszugeben/
Lee, J-Y. E., & Sungwon Ryu (2023, Dec 1). Chasing the Elephant: "Digitalization" in Rural Everyday Life in South Korea. https://sfb1265.de/blog/chasing-the-elephant-grasping-digitalization-in-rural-everyday-life-in-south-korea/
Contribution to Special Interest Journal
Christmann, G., & Lee, J-Y. E. (2024). Wie disruptiv ist ländlicher Wandel? IRS aktuell, (102), 24-29. https://leibniz-irs.de/fileadmin/user_upload/IRS_Aktuell/102/IRS_aktuell_No_102.pdf
Digital or Visual Products
Walter, J. (Producer), Hecht, C. (Performer), Lee, J-Y. E. (Performer), & Pohl, S. (Performer). (2024). Multiple Spatialities 3: Digitalisierte Räume. Digital or Visual Products https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HGs2mHkcRl0
Working Paper, Discussion Paper
Christmann, G., Dihlmann, C-J., Helbrecht, I., Kibel, J., Korte, E., & Lee, J-Y. E. (2024). Ländlichkeiten: Konstruktionen von ländlichen Räumen und ihre Refiguration in Chile, China, Deutschland, Kanada, Kenia und Südkorea. (Working Paper SFB 1265; No. 15). Universitätsverlag der Technischen Universität Berlin. https://doi.org/10.14279/depositonce-20609

Talks

2025
Autoethnographic Experiential Mapping. Encountering Multispecies Territories through Discomfort

STS-Hub 2025

March/13/2025
Humboldt Universität Berlin, Berlin, Germany

2024
Transforming Rural Areas through Digital Economies? Observations from South Korea and Chile

G-TURN lecture series

November/06/2024

Commodifying Thermal Comfort: Spatial Implications of Platform Tourism in Rural Chile and South Korea

Contingencies of Thermal Comfort

October/28/2024
Georg-Simmel-Zentrum für Stadtforschung der HU Berlin, Berlin, Germany

Investigating Space while Sensing Space as a Research Tourist

GCSMUS Thailand International Conference 2024

July/26/2024
Chulalongkorn University, Bangkok, Thailand

2023
Local Identities in Digital Transformation? At 'Peripheries' of a Globalized World

WITH/OUT IDENTITY. Zur Frage von Identitätskonstruktionen in Raum, Erbe und Communities

November/23/2023
Bauhaus-Universität Weimar, Weimar

Jae-Young Elisabeth Lee in the Media

Ein Gefühl von Heimat
(taz, 12/07/2024)