Nikita Wu is a Taiwanese writer

Writer

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 and arts manager. She was the curator

Curator

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 of the Future Pavilion in the Taiwan Design Expo 2005 and a project manager in the Taiwan Pavilion of the Venice Biennale

Venice Biennale

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 2006, for WEAK! architects in the 2009 Shenzhen

Shenzhen

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 & Hong Kong

Hong Kong

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 Bi-City Biennale of Urbanism

Urbanism

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/Architecture

Architecture

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 and in co-operation with the JUT Foundation for Arts & Architecture for the independent research centre Ruin Academy

Ruin Academy

Ruin Academy is an independent cross-over architectural research center in the Urban Core area of Taipei City, Taiwan. It is 'set to re-think the industrial city and the modern man in the box' through research and a series of workshops....

 in Taipei.

Wu is the editor

Editor

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 of the independent newspaper

Newspaper

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 Cicada

Cicada

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and the Anarchist Gardener.

External links

• Soma Suihkulähde Nikita Wu's website
• Architecture of the WEAK! Robin Peckham, Kunsthalle Kowloon, 2009
• Cicada Nikita Wu, SZHK Biennale, 2009
• Bug Dome Archi-Europe, 2009