Gustav Kjær Vad Nielsen

Gustav Nielsen (Copenhagen, 1994) is a Luxembourg-based Danish transdisciplinary researcher, artist and architect. His professional and academic work explores the posthuman geographies of 21st century democratic transitions focusing on the more-than-human entanglements of recent democratic innovations such as deliberative assemblies in spatial politics towards more just futures.

He is a co-editer of the experimental anthology I, Like Many Things (2023), co-directs the performative arts group Rehearsing Environments, is a co-founding member of the Community Design Research Lab at CRASSH (University of Cambridge) and collaborator with Building Neighbourhood. Since 2023 he has been a fellow with DemocracyNext. Previously he has worked in architecture and planning offices in Denmark, the Netherlands, and USA.

Gustav holds an M.Phil. in Architecture and Urban Studies (MAUS) from University of Cambridge (2024), an M.Arch. from Yale University School of Architecture (2022), where he studied as a Fulbright Student, and a B.A. in Architecture from Aarhus School of Architecture (2017).