Emanuele Coccia is a lecturer at the École des hautes études en sciences sociales (EHESS) in Paris. He has been a visiting professor at the universities of Tokyo, Buenos Aires, Munich, Columbia, and Harvard. He is the author of "La vie des plantes. Une métaphysique du mélange" (ed. Rivages, Paris, 2016), "Métamorphoses" (ed. Rivages, Paris, 2020) and more recently "Philosophie de la maison. Le bonheur et l'espace domestique" (ed. Rivages, Paris, 2021), translated into several languages. He regularly collaborates with contemporary art and architecture foundations (notably the Fondation Cartier pour l'art contemporain and the Triennale d'Architettura in Milan) and fashion houses (notably Dior and Gucci).