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About Kelvin Vu
Kelvin Vu is a designer and dancer interested in the intersection of the performing arts, public space, and public knowledge. After graduating from Yale, he trained at the SF Conservatory of Dance under the direction of Summer Lee Rhatigan before moving to Tel Aviv to join Batsheva Dance Company’s Young Ensemble. While in Israel, Kelvin performed works by Ohad Naharin, Sharon Eyal, Hofesh Schechter, Roy Assaf, Noa Zuk & Ohad Fishof, and Dafi Altabeb. After returning to the United States, Kelvin studied architecture and landscape architecture at the University of Pennsylvania, Weitzman School of Design, where he was a University Olmsted Scholar. He is currently based in Boston, MA, working as a landscape designer with Agency Landscape + Planning, while also developing his own practice that combines dance, design, and teaching.NBN Episodes hosted by Kelvin:
June 21, 2026
Landscape Fieldwork
Landscape architecture is at a crossroads. The ability to draw upon interdisciplinary perspectives and generate insights from the combined vantage poi…
May 31, 2026
Seeking Abundance
Regenerative design is a way of building that heals our planet and our communities by halting biodiversity loss, reversing climate change, and improvi…
May 2, 2026
Waves Lost at Sea
Waves Lost at Sea (Spector Books, 2026) traces the evolving practice of Cooking Sections, whose work spans visual arts, architecture, and ecology. Sin…
January 13, 2026
Spatial Theories for the Americas
To study the built environment of the Americas is to wrestle with an inherent contradiction. While the disciplines of architecture, urban design, land…
December 11, 2025
Silt Sand Slurry
Silt Sand Slurry: Dredging, Sediment, and the Worlds We Are Making is a visually rich investigation into where, why, and how sediment is central to th…
October 28, 2025
The Choreography of Environments
The Choreography of Environments: How the Anna and Lawrence Halprin Home Transformed Contemporary Dance and Urban Design (Oxford UP, 2025) explores ho…