Sébastien Thiéry

Sébastien Thiéry holds a doctorate in political science and is associate assistant professor at the Ecole nationale supérieure d’architecture de Paris Malaquais. In 2012, with landscape architect Gilles Clément, he founded PEROU – Pôle d’Exploration des Ressources Urbaines – which conducts action-research on the edges of our cities (shantytowns, jungles, squats, shelters of all kinds) and the gestures, forms and acts of hospitality that are invented there. Author of several books and films, including Considérant qu’il est plausible que de tels événements puisse encore survenir. Sur l’art municipal de détruire un bidonville (post-éditions, 2013), or Des Actes. A Calais et tout autour (post-éditions, 2018), he is also a member of the editorial board of the journal Multitudes. A resident at the Ville Médicis in 2019-2020, he is coordinating a request to Unesco, notably involving various authors around the Mediterranean Sea, to have the act of hospitality included in the Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity.

 

News from Sébastien Thiéry :

To celebrate its 10th anniversary, the Centre Pompidou-Metz has invited 11 contemporary artists, including Sébastien Thiéry, to create new works. Each artist formulates a desire, proposing 11 “commandments” for the future, which visitors can discover in situ. Sébastien Thiéry asked architect Shigeru Ban to imagine an extension to the Centre Pompidou-Metz, in the form of a flagship dedicated to organizations committed to saving lives at sea.
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