Nathalie Kerschen, PhD
Portfolio 2025 (Overview)*
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I work at the intersection of art and architecture, bridging the gap between academic research and creative expression. As a trained architect, I hold a PhD in architectural theory from McGill University (Montreal, 2023). My doctoral thesis, “Reclaiming Nature in Computational Architectural Design: From Biology to Phenomenology,” investigates the relationship between nature, animality, and the new technologies.
As a recipient of several fellowships, I have since translated my theoretical research into both artistic and curatorial projects. My research-creation project “Urbs Animalis” (Academia Belgica Rome – Kultur | LX, 2023) and my curatorial and scenographic work for the exhibition “Living Thresholds: Towards Cohabitation in Architectural Design” (LUCA, 2025) explore forms of lived cohabitation between human and non-human living beings in urban environments.
Currently in residence at the Cité internationale des arts in Paris (Institut français du Luxembourg, 2025–26), I am developing “Walk(ing) Paris,” a project exploring feminine and feminist experiences of urban space through artistic walks.
My work has been presented at the Casino Luxembourg - Forum for Contemporary Art, LUCA - Luxembourg Center for Architecture, BPS22 (Charleroi), and iMAL (Bruxelles), as well as published by Netzwerk Architekturwissenschaften, Springer Nature, and Forum.
For more, follow me on ResearchGate. See also, Culture.lu.
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