Jeremy Lecomte

Jeremy Lecomte (1985, Mantes la Jolie, France) is a researcher and theoretician working between political philosophy, art, architecture and urban studies. He recently obtained a PhD in architecture with a thesis exploring the history of urban modernisation in Lagos, Nigeria, from the colonial period until today (The University of Manchester, 2017). He previously graduated from Goldsmiths, University of London (Mphil in Cultural Studies, 2013), and from the École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales, Paris (MA in Political Philosophy, 2009). He lectures and conducts studios at l’École Nationale Supérieure d’Architecture de Versailles, where he is associate lecturer since 2014. In 2017, he was also invited to teach at l’École Nationale Supérieure d’Architecture de Paris Malaquais, in the department Digital Knowledge. This fall, 2018, he has been invited to lecture at SCI-arc, Los Angeles. In parallel to his research and teaching activities, Jeremy Lecomte collaborates regularly with artists and architects on different exhibition and building projects. He is also co-founder and co-editor of Glass Bead, an online art journal and research platform dedicated to the relations between art and other domains of thought, and to their political ramifications.