Institute of Contemporary History

Research Focus:

• Moral and political philosophy of the city
• Public space and urbanism
• Surveillance technologies and smart cities
• Arab urbanism and (in)formal urbanism

Education:

• 2015–2020: Ph.D. in Philosophy, Masaryk University, Brno
• 2016–2017: Doctoral research stay, Université Jean Moulin Lyon 3, Doctoral School of Philosophy, Supervisor: Jean-Philippe Pierron
• 2014–2015: Erasmus Master’s programme, University of Wrocław, Poland
  (Humanities / PR and Political Marketing)
• 2013–2015: M.A. in Philosophy, Masaryk University, Brno
• 2012–2013: Erasmus Bachelor’s programme, Université Jean Moulin Lyon 3, Lyon, France (Philosophy)
• 2010–2013: B.A. in Philosophy, Masaryk University, Brno

Academic and Professional Appointments (selected):

• 2022–present: Assistant Professor, Institute of Theory and History of Architecture (15113), Faculty of Architecture, Czech Technical University in Prague
• 2020–2021: Researcher, Centre for Global Studies, Institute of Philosophy, Czech Academy of Sciences
• 2018–2019: Intern, Office of the Chief Architect of the City of Brno (GIS for smart-city projects)

Institutional and Committee Memberships:

• 2023: Member of the evaluation committee, student competition Ještěd v kleci,
  Faculty of Art and Architecture, Technical University of Liberec

International Stays, Workshops, Grants:

• 2021: Think Tangier, workshop “Mapping Tangier,” Tangier, Morocco
• 2018: Office of the Chief Architect of the City of Brno – GIS database for smart city

Research Projects and Grants:

• 2025–2028: OP JAK Urbanity: Inequality, Adaptation, and Public Space of Cities in Historical Perspective
• 2020–2021: Urbanism in Arab Cities, Centre for Global Studies, Institute of Philosophy, Czech Academy of Sciences (Principal Investigator)
• 2020: Consultant, Technology Agency of the Czech Republic project “Smart Homolka”

Selected Publications:

• Crippen, M., & Klement, V. (2020). Architectural values, political affordances and selective permeability. Open Philosophy, 3, 462–477.
• Klement, V. (2024). Budoucnost technologií dohledu: aktéři moci versus obyvatelé měst? [The future of surveillance technologies: actors of power versus city dwellers?] In Město jako laboratoř změny [The City as a Laboratory of Change]. Prague: Argo.
• Klement, V., Mehan, A., Tafrata, B., & Tabi, S. (2022). A Radical Manifesto. In R. Rocco & C. Newton (Eds.), A Manifesto for the Just City (Vol. 2). TU Delft OPEN.
• Klement, V. (2022). „My se chceme zchladit!“ Koupání jako součást práva na město. [“We want to cool down!” Swimming as part of the right to the city]. A2larm.
• Klement, V. (2023). Cesta k sobě. Prague: Czech Technical University in Prague.

Conferences, Lectures, Workshops (selected):

• 2025: Philosophy of the City, Busan, South Kore,a Paper: “From Colonial Order to Smart Surveillance: A Philosophical Critique of (Urban) Rationality”
• 2025: Invited lecture “Surveillance, Cities and People,” Faculty of Social Sciences, Charles University, Prague
• 2024: Philosophy of the City, Madrid, Paper: “Do Our Cities Reflect What People Want?”
• 2023: Philosophy of the City, Brooklyn College, CUNY, Paper: “Overstepping the Binary Dichotomy…”
• 2022: Philosophy of the City, Politecnico di Torino, Paper: “Morality Zoning…”
• 2021: International Online Conference Philosophy of the City Now, Paper: “Selective Permeability…”
• 2019: Philosophy of the City, University of Detroit Mercy, Paper: “Tools for Shaping Human Behaviour in Public Space”
• 2018: Philosophy of the City, Universidad de La Salle, Bogotá, Paper: “Right to the City: Public Transportation Justice”