At the beginning of October, Xu Tiantian and Tei Carpenter were in Berlin at ANCB, The Aedes Metropolitan Laboratory, for a workshop with their students from Yale University School of Architecture. On this occasion, Eduard Kögel spoke with Xu Tiantian of DnA Design and Architecture about her teaching concepts and design strategies for rural contexts.

In April 2021, Xu Tiantian and her office DnA_Design and Architecture were invited by the local authority of Jinyun County to develop ideas for the conversion of former quarries. Those responsible had become aware of Xu Tiantian through her recent involvement in the neighbouring county of Songyang, where using a strategy that she describes as ‘architectural acupuncture’ her projects brought new life to old villages with comparatively little intervention.