Jonas Bylund

Jonas Bylund is since 2022 affiliated to the Division of Urban and Regional Studies, at the Department of Urban Planning and Environment, KTH Royal Institute of Technology as researcher. He was part of the JPI Urban Europe Management Board 2013–2022. His main responsibility was science-policy communication and to develop urban research and innovation funding calls with affiliated funding agencies as well as other initiatives. Since 2013 and until mid-2022 also employed at IQS, the Swedish Centre for Innovation and Quality in the Built Environment.  He is trained in human geography and social anthropology, with a specific research focus on the knowledge practices in planning and environmental sciences. His PhD thesis Planning, Projects, Practice (2006) investigated a local investment programme concerning new environmental technologies in Stockholm urban development and was an attempt to translate actor-network theory into planning studies. He is an experienced lecturer in urban and regional planning, with a particular focus on epistemology and ontology in the social sciences. He is also a consultant with URBANALYS and connected to Anthropocene.City through which he carries out various kinds of urbanist related commissions for public administrations, higher education, and private organisations.