Gustav Kjær Vad Nielsen (he/him/his)
is an architect MAA MArch BA, urban researcher and social activist based in Esch-sur-Alzette, Copenhagen, and Limassol.
He explores a “critical open practice” that spans action-research, critical pedagogies, curatorial and editorial inquiries, spatial design, community organizing and strategic planning. His research focuses on participatory, collaborative and civi(c/l) spatial practices in the context of socio-ecological transitions and explores practices of urban governance that suggest alternatives to and actively dismantles neoliberal, hetero-patriarchal and colonial realities.
Gustav is a co-editor of the experimental anthology I, Like Many Things (2023) and the zine issues Paprika! Volume 6 Issue 10, “There’s No Place Like” (2021) and the bulletin “Architecture? “Architecture” (Architecture)” (2019). He has has published his writings in Paprika!, STYLOS and Constructs, among other places, and lectured and exhibited widely (Venice Architecture Biennale; CHART Art Fair; LUCA; UIA World Congress of Architects; Yale North Gallery; Yale University; Delft University of Technology; Aarhus School of Architecture). Most recently he has contributed a chapter to the book Agonistic Assemblies: On the Spatial Politics of Horizontality (Miessen, 2024).
Currently, he is a Doctoral Researcher at the University of Luxembourg with the Cultures of Assembly working group and is a Spaces of Deliberation Fellow at the non-profit action and research institute DemocracyNext.
While a Fulbright student at Yale University School of Architecture, Gustav co-founded the Home Work Research Group (HMWRK) and received his Master of Architecture (MArch) degree in 2022 with a nomination for the H.I. Feldman Prize for the project Casual, social, sudsy love at the tubs. He received a Bachelor of Arts in Architecture (BA) degree from Aarhus School of Architecture in 2017.
Previously, Gustav has worked with the Yale Urban Design Workshop (YUDW) and Yale Urban Media Project (YUMP) in New Haven, OMA in Rotterdam and SLETH in Copenhagen and has held research and teaching positions in departments of architecture, urban studies and geography at Yale University School of Architecture, University of Cambridge, Aarhus School of Architecture and University of Luxembourg.
@gustavkvnielsen
gustavkvnielsen@gmail.com
+45 22994796
is an architect MAA MArch BA, urban researcher and social activist based in Esch-sur-Alzette, Copenhagen, and Limassol.
He explores a “critical open practice” that spans action-research, critical pedagogies, curatorial and editorial inquiries, spatial design, community organizing and strategic planning. His research focuses on participatory, collaborative and civi(c/l) spatial practices in the context of socio-ecological transitions and explores practices of urban governance that suggest alternatives to and actively dismantles neoliberal, hetero-patriarchal and colonial realities.
Gustav is a co-editor of the experimental anthology I, Like Many Things (2023) and the zine issues Paprika! Volume 6 Issue 10, “There’s No Place Like” (2021) and the bulletin “Architecture? “Architecture” (Architecture)” (2019). He has has published his writings in Paprika!, STYLOS and Constructs, among other places, and lectured and exhibited widely (Venice Architecture Biennale; CHART Art Fair; LUCA; UIA World Congress of Architects; Yale North Gallery; Yale University; Delft University of Technology; Aarhus School of Architecture). Most recently he has contributed a chapter to the book Agonistic Assemblies: On the Spatial Politics of Horizontality (Miessen, 2024).
Currently, he is a Doctoral Researcher at the University of Luxembourg with the Cultures of Assembly working group and is a Spaces of Deliberation Fellow at the non-profit action and research institute DemocracyNext.
While a Fulbright student at Yale University School of Architecture, Gustav co-founded the Home Work Research Group (HMWRK) and received his Master of Architecture (MArch) degree in 2022 with a nomination for the H.I. Feldman Prize for the project Casual, social, sudsy love at the tubs. He received a Bachelor of Arts in Architecture (BA) degree from Aarhus School of Architecture in 2017.
Previously, Gustav has worked with the Yale Urban Design Workshop (YUDW) and Yale Urban Media Project (YUMP) in New Haven, OMA in Rotterdam and SLETH in Copenhagen and has held research and teaching positions in departments of architecture, urban studies and geography at Yale University School of Architecture, University of Cambridge, Aarhus School of Architecture and University of Luxembourg.
@gustavkvnielsen
gustavkvnielsen@gmail.com
+45 22994796
