Seventh Lisbon Architecture Triennale

We experience environments through their affordance, either natural, architectural or technological propensity: how does the irruption of the new figure of the planetary interact with our senses? How to come to our senses?

Emanuele Coccia is a philosopher and lecturer at the École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales EHESS in Paris. He works extensively on the history of ecology and the intersections between philosophy, art and biology. He has been a visiting professor at the universities of Tokyo, Buenos Aires, Düsseldorf, Columbia and Harvard. He is the author of La Vie sensible, The Life of Plants, Métamorphoses and Philosophie de la maison. He recently participated in the making of animated videos, such as Quercus (2020, with Formafantasma), Heaven in Matter (2021, with Faye Formisano) and The Portal of Mysteries (2022, with Dotdotdot). In 2019 he took part in the "Trees" exhibition held at the Cartier Foundation for Contemporary Art in Paris. He edited the catalogue for the 23rd Triennale di Milano, Unknown Unknowns: An Introduction to Mysteries. He is the co-author alongside Alessandro Michele, Creative Director of Gucci, of La Vita Delle Forme, a publication which explores the relationships between fashion and philosophy.