Kenny Cupers is an architectural historian and professor at the University of Basel, where he directs the Urban Studies program. His research focuses on the relationship between built environments and changing societies in African and European contexts.
Cupers is interested in how design and infrastructure mediate social life and political power. He is the author of "The Social Project: Housing in Post-War France" (2014) and "The Earth That Built Modernism" (2024), a work that traces the rise of planetary design to an imperialist discourse on the influence of the Earth's environment on humanity.
Based on the collaborative project "Kamĩrĩĩthũ Afterlives," he is currently working on a book that examines how workers and peasants mobilized the arts and architecture to dismantle the colonial plantation system.
