Mathilde Kirkegaard (DK) is an assistant professor at Aarhus School of Architecture researching cultural environments.

She has studied cultural environments as places that supports unique cultures, traditions and local attachments. Within her research she has conducted site-specific interventions as a means to develop understandings, connections and co-creations with the people living in and using the cultural environment. Recently she has investigated cultural environments as places that hold significant multispecies diversity.

She is a part of the research project Sustainable Cultural Environments together with professor Mogens Andreassen Morgen, assistant professor Sidse Martens Gudmand-Høyer and associate professor Nina Ventzel Riis. In unison the research team has created an exhibition as part of their cultural environment research which will be presented and exhibited at OPEN25.