Rolf Gerstlauer

Rolf Gerstlauer, Professor at the Institute of Architecture (Oslo School of Architecture and Design), is an architect, filmmaker, and multimedia artist conducting experimental teaching and artistic research since 1995. His work explores Body & Space Morphologies through neuroqueered architectural phenomenology, interrogating human/non-human relationships in post-natural environments.

• Academic leadership since 2006
• Co-founder of the B3 Generator artistic research platform
• Curator of international ecoperformance festivals

His research examines transdisciplinary intersections between architecture, film, and eco-political performance art. Through collaborations with Julie Dind and Inga Chinilina, he creates works like Weird from Iceland and Drawing NN, blending neurodiverse perspectives with environmental critique.

Recent publications focus on:

• Ecopoetic film alchemy
• Architectural responses to climate crisis
• Neuroqueering spatial practice
• Animism in eco-performance
• Post-anthropocentric design

Gerstlauer contributes to curatorial projects including the International Ecoperformance Film Festival and Architecture as Infrastructure publications. He advocates for artistic research as essential parallel to traditional architectural scholarship.