Emanuele Coccia

Ecology, art, fashion, design... Emanuele Coccia offers a brilliant analysis of the contemporary world, wherever it is being shaped and transformed. He has been teaching at the École des hautes études en sciences sociales (EHESS) in Paris since 2011. His books, translated into many languages, include La vie sensible (2010), La vie des plantes (2016), Métamorphose (2020) and Philosophie de la maison (2021). He has published a book of phototheory with photographer Viviane Sassen (Alchimie Moderne, 2022) He has directed animated videos such as Quercus (2019, with Formafantasma), Heaven in Matter (2021, with Faye Formisano) and The Portal of Mysteries (2022, with Dotdotdot). In 2019, he contributed to the exhibition Nous les Arbres, presented at the Fondation Cartier pour l'art contemporain in Paris. He edited the catalogs for the 23rd Milan Architecture and Design Triennial: Unknown Unknowns. An introduction to mysteries. He is currently writing a four-hander on the relationship between fashion and philosophy with Gucci Creative Director Alessandro Michele.