Gert van der Merwe

Spatial Practitioner: Architecture-, Theory- and Environmental Design - Researcher & Lecturer

Windhoek, Khomas, Namibia

About

Research interests include the commons, open technology, inclusive urban strategies, rights of creatives, cultural and natural systems thinking & biomimicry

Experience

  • Researcher Phd Candidate at Delft University of Technology
    Sep 2022 - Present · 3 yrs 10 mos

    https://www.tudelft.nl/bk/over-faculteit/afdelingen/architecture/organisatie-1/secties-en-groepen/theories-territories-transitions/architecture-philosophy-and-theory/staff

  • Lecturer at Namibia University of Science and Technology
    Feb 2022 - Present · 4 yrs 5 mos

  • Junior Architect at Jaco Wassefall Architects
    Jan 2021 - Jul 2022 · 1 yr 7 mos

  • Director at BURNING GROOVE
    Nov 2017 - Dec 2020 · 3 yrs 2 mos

    A publisher and distributor for Independent Music and Art

  • Junior Lecturer & Interm-Undergraduate Studio Master - Post-grad studio host at University of Pretoria/Universiteit van Pretoria
    2016 - 2017 · 1 yr

    Lectured Material Science for 3rd Year Interior Architecture students (1 semester) which included studio work, while also joining as a studio-assistant in 2nd Year Architecture. I then took over as a temporary Studio Master and Design History/Theory lecturer for the last semester.