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Mgr. Vladan Klement, Ph.D.

Assistant professor

Bachelor's degree: Masaryk University Brno, Philosophy, 2010-2013

Bachelor Erasmus: Université Jean Moulin Lyon 3, Lyon, France, Philosophy, 2012/2013, in French

Master's degree: Masaryk University Brno, Philosophy, 2013- 2015

Erasmus Master: Uniwersytet Wrocławski, Wroclaw, Poland, Humanities/PR and Political marketing, 2014/2015, in English/Polish

PhD: Masaryk University Brno, major in Philosophy, 2015 - 2020

Doctoral studies: Université Jean Moulin Lyon 3, Lyon, École doctorale de Philosophie. 2016-2017, in French

 

2026

-> Work abroad program, Instituto de Geografia e Ordenamento do Território, Universidade de Lisboa / SpikeUrban (https://spikeurban.com.pt/)  - a project on neurourbanism and the mapping of emotions in urban planning and architecture.

-> Participant in the discussion “Garden Talks: The City as an Event // Debate // Pilsen”

→Published article: “Order as a Technology of Power: From Colonial Urbanism to Algorithmic Surveillance in Smart Cities,” in KRITIKE VOLUME TWENTY NUMBER ONE (MARCH 2026), pp. 151–174 https://doi.org/10.25138/20.1.a8

→Invited lecture, “Two Futures for Our Cities,” Brno Architecture Gallery

→Panelist on “How will AI change the way we live, work, and move in cities and city regions?” at the conference “reVize Typologie 2026: Cities for AI, Cities for People?”, CAMP Prague

→ invited lecture, “Collective Housing and Ideologies,” École d’architecture de Rabat – Université Internationale de Rabat, Morocco

→ principal investigator of the “Urbanita” grant, Jan Ámos Komenský Operational Program, Institute of Contemporary History, Czech Academy of Sciences

2025

→ Lecture at the international conference Philosophy of the City: “From Colonial Order to Smart Surveillance: A Philosophical Critique of (Urban) Rationality,” Pusan National University, Pusan, South Korea

→ Academic article “Public Space for Everyone: Illusion, Trend, or Reality?” In: Urbanism and Spatial Development 3/2025

→ Panelist at the “Young Plato” discussion panel, Institute of International Relations of the Czech Republic, Prague

→ Moderator at the international conference “Understanding Public Space: Innovative Methods and Concepts for Interdisciplinary Research,” Czech Academy of Sciences

→ Invited lecture “Surveillance, Cities, and People,” Faculty of Social Sciences, Charles University

→ Adjunct instructor, course “Architecture in the Context of the Social Sciences and Humanities 2,” Faculty of Arts and Architecture

→ Principal Investigator of the “Urbanita” grant, Jan Ámos Komenský Operational Program, Institute of Contemporary History, Czech Academy of Sciences

2024

→ Organization of the student competition/workshop “The Path to Oneself” for students at the Faculty of Architecture, Czech Technical University in Prague

→ Chapter in the academic book “The Future of Surveillance Technologies: Actors of Power versus City Dwellers?” In: Gjuričová, Adéla, Nodl, Martin, Pospíšil, Stanislav. The City as a Laboratory of Change. Argo: Everyday Life, 2024.

→ Invited lecture “Surveillance Technology as a Moral Problem,” Institute of Political Science, Faculty of Arts, Charles University

→ Invited lecture “Surveillance Technology as a Moral Problem,” Philosophical Society, Department of Philosophy, Masaryk University, Brno

→ Invited lecture “Public Space and the Future,” Blansko High School

→ Lecture at the international conference Philosophy of the City “Do Our Cities Reflect What People Want? A Look at Top-Down vs. General Public,” Centro de Ciencias Humanas y Sociales, Madrid, Spain

→ Lecture “Cities and Utopia,” Green Summer School, Institute of Active Citizenship, Předklášteří near Tišnov

→ Lecture “From Muddy Path to Existential Meaning: A Student Competition Reimagines Space and Self,” panel “The Right to a Fair Space for Education: An Interdisciplinary Approach Between Pedagogy, Architecture, and Design,” Third International Conference of the journal “Scuola Democratica,” University of Cagliari, Italy

→ Lecture “Solarpunk: A Utopian Critique of Modernity,” NE(-)HUMAN CITY: 9th Brno Conference on Urban Studies, Masaryk University

→ Review of a concert by Beirut-based urban planner Mayssa Jallad -> https://alterecho.muzikus.cz/fotogalerie/mayssa-jallad-v-19-patre-hotelu-olympik.html

→ Guest on the ArtCafé program, Czech Radio Vltava, topic: Do teenagers and young adults have a place in urban public spaces? -> https://vltava.rozhlas.cz/patri-verejny-prostor-mest-i-nactiletym-a-mladym-dospelym-9215401

→ Lecture titled “Big Brother and Smart Cities” at the Big Brother Awards ceremony, Prague.

2023

→ Member of the judging panel for the student competition “Ještěd f kleci,” Faculty of Arts and Architecture, Technical University of Liberec.

→ Paper titled “Surveillance and Public Space” at the Strategy Forum conference “The City as a Laboratory of Change,” Czech Academy of Sciences

→ Lecture at the international Philosophy of the City conference titled “Overstepping the Binary Dichotomy of Order versus Chaos: Interpretations of Informal Urbanism in Arab Countries,” Brooklyn College, City University of New York, USA

→ Invited lecture “The Smart City as a Moral Problem” as part of the course “The City and Power,” Faculty of Arts, Charles University, Prague

→ Invited lecture “Philosophy and Architecture,” Faculty of Architecture, Brno University of Technology

2022

→ Lecture “Moral and Political Implications of Urbanism,” DocTalks Spring

→ Lecture at the international conference Philosophy of the City: “Morality Zoning, Affordances, and Division of One City: Tangier, Morocco,” Politecnico di Torino, Turin, Italy 

KLEMENT, Vladan. Order as a Technology of Power: From Colonial Urbanism to Algorithmic Surveillance in Smart Cities", In: KRITIKE VOLUME TWENTY NUMBER ONE (MARCH 2026) 151-174 https://doi.org/10.25138/20.1.a8

KLEMENT, Vladan. Budoucnost technologií dohledu: aktéři moci versus obyvatelé měst? In: Gjuričová, Adéla, Nodl, Martin, Pospíšil, Stanislav. Město jako laboratoř změny. Argo: Každodenní život, 2024.

CRIPPEN, Matthew and KLEMENT, Vladan (2020). Architectural values, political affordances and selective permeability. Open Philosophy 3, pp. 462-477. https://doi.org/10.1515/opphil-2020-0112

KLEMENT, Vladan. The cycle of a water supplies. In: Mapping Urban Informality in Tangier: Four Itineraries across the Formal-Informal Interface.

KLEMENT, Vladan., MEHAN, Asma., TAFRATA, Bouchra.,TABI, Salma.  (2022). A RADICAL MANIFESTO, in Rocco, R. & Newton, C. (eds), A Manifesto for the Just City (Vol. 2). Delft: TU Delft OPEN.

KLEMENT, Vladan. Promarněná poetika Moravského náměstí v Brně. In: Deník Referendum, https://denikreferendum.cz/mgt/preview/33779.

KLEMENT, Vladan. „My se chceme zchladit!“ Koupání jako součást práva na město In: A2larm, https://a2larm.cz/2022/06/my-se-chceme-zchladit-koupani-jako-soucast-prava-na-mesto/.

KLEMENT, Vladan. „Vypadněte odsud!“ Jak dostat puberťáky a jiné živly z veřejného prostoru? In: A2larm, https://a2larm.cz/2022/08/vypadnete-odsud-jak-dostat-pubertaky-a-jine-zivly-z-verejneho-prostoru/.

KLEMENT, Vladan. Konzultace vydání. In: E15 - Rapsodie v zeleném (březen 2023).

KLEMENT, Vladan. Urbanism - an overlooked field of the philosophical inquire. Hi Socrates. 2016, vol. 2016/2017, no. 2016, p. unpaginated, 5 p. ISSN 2533-428X.

KLEMENT, Vladan. The connection between urbanism and emotions. Hi Socrates. 2016, vol. 2016/2017, no. 8/2016, p. unpaginated, 3 p. ISSN 2533-428X.

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