Gustav Kjær Vad Nielsen

Gustav Kjær Vad Nielsen is an architect, researcher, artist, and a PhD candidate in Geography at the University of Luxembourg. His research explores the relationships between the built environment, education, and politics with specific focus on creative research methods and post-qualitative approaches informed by feminist post humanisms and new materialisms, legal and political geographies of urban governance, the commons, and spaces of radical and deliberative democracy. He co-edited the experimental anthology I, Like Many Things (2023) and co-directs the long-term performative arts project Rehearsing Environments. 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).