Adam Hudec is a researcher, architect, educator, and environmental activist whose work operates at the intersection of architecture, art, and environmental research. He is the co-founder of Dusts Institute, a research platform and community space dedicated to experimental environmental sensing, material agency, and situated pedagogy. His practice explores the hidden dynamics of urban and ecological environments, drawing attention to overlooked phenomena such as dust, air, and microbial traces as indicators of broader socio-environmental entanglements.
Trained in architecture and fine arts across institutions in Vienna, Hong Kong, Brighton, and Brno, Hudec has developed a methodology that resists disciplinary boundaries. He approaches architecture as a medium of exposure, using it to reveal invisible material and social systems that shape contemporary urban life. His projects combine scientific methods with poetic and performative tools, engaging audiences through sensorial experiences, participatory walks, and spatial interventions.
Hudec is currently completing his Doctorate in Technical Sciences at the Academy of Fine Arts in Vienna, where his research focused on microbial ecologies, biopatina, and the non-human agency of architectural surfaces. His doctoral work contributes to a growing field of inquiry that reimagines the built environment as a living, interspecies infrastructure.
His installations and research-based projects have been presented internationally at venues including the Venice Architecture Biennale (2025), Bi-City Biennale of Urbanism/Architecture in Shenzhen (2019), BIO26 Design Biennale in Ljubljana (2018), Vienna Climate Biennale (2024), and India Design Week (2025), where he exhibited the Dust-Free Chamber—an immersive installation addressing air pollution and respiratory justice in urban environments.
Through Dusts Institute, Hudec leads collaborative field-based research and public programs with scientists, artists, activists, and local communities. He also implements educational workshops internationally, including for platforms such as the World Health Organization (WHO), the European Capital of Culture, and various cultural and academic institutions. His work emphasizes situated knowledge, and multispecies perspectives, challenging dominant notions of cleanliness, efficiency, and control in architectural and urban systems.
Hudec is also active as an editor and author. He is the editor and lead author of From Dusts to Dusts (2025), a publication that frames five years of Dusts Institute’s ecological attunement practice. He is co-editor of the forthcoming Sternberg Press anthology Plant Space: Cultures of the Vegetal (2025), an interdisciplinary collection exploring interspecies communication and vegetal cultures. His writing has appeared in international journals including Metode and forA: on the relationship between art, architecture and environment.
In addition to his design and research practice, Hudec lectures internationally and contributes to experimental pedagogies that integrate ecological thinking into spatial and material practice. His broader interests include microbial heritage, post-anthropocentric maintenance practices, and rethinking environmental agency through the lens of architecture. He is currently based in Vienna.