Justinien Tribillon is a writer, editor and curator.
His curatorial and editorial practice is grounded in social sciences and design, and seeks to establish connections across discourses, disciplines, spaces and media. His main current research themes include the sociology of plants, migration, the politics of technical artefacts, and invisibilised modes of resistance by making. He works with museums in the United Kingdom, France, Italy and across Europe as a curator, consultant and editor.
In 2024 he publishes his first book, The Zone: An Alternative History of Paris with Verso.
Justinien has also recently edited Ruderal : Liquid Identities (September 2024, Éditions deux-cent-cinq), and Visible upon Breakdown (Spector Books).
As an editor and publisher, Justinien has co-founded, published and edited Migrant Journal. As an editorial consultant or guest editor, Justinien has recently worked with Flaneur and Atelier Luma, among others.
In 2023–2024, Justinien is a fellow at Villa Medici, the French Academy in Rome. He is dedicating this year to the subversive and creative practice of “perruque”, when manual workers design and craft objets for themselves during their worktime, using the company tools. This project will be continued in 2025-2026 at the V&A East, London.
Justinien has participated to the Venice Biennale of Architecture 2021, among other exhibitions, while Migrant Journal has been exhibited at the XXII Triennale di Milano (French section), the Design Museum in London, and has been acquired by the Centre National des Arts Plastiques, France to join its permanent collection.
An urbanist, Justinien studies cities, their built environment, the ways they are lived in, imagined and governed. He has written for The Guardian, The Architectural Review, AOC, with articles on wood architecture, the Suez Canal, or an uncanny natural reserve in Bucharest, Romania.
Justinien has a PhD in urban studies (The Barlett, University College London). His thesis, The Boulevard Périphérique, anonymous œuvre of the Parisian technocracy deconstructs Paris’s ring road as a process at the crossroad of technical reason, social imagination and politics. Justinien has also studied urban planning, political science and policy at Sciences Po (École urbaine) and the London School of Economics (LSE Cities).
Justinien regulary works with museums and culural organisations, designers, architecture practices, public and private-sectors organisations as a consultant on design, cultural policy and urban planning. Among his clients: the Mayor of London, We Made That, Transport for London, Architecture 00, TVK. From 2018–2020, Justinien was associate director for Europe at Theatrum Mundi.
Justinien is a lecturer in History, Theory and Criticism at École nationale supérieure des arts décoratifs in Paris.
Justinien is regularly invited to to give talks, chair round-tables on cities, architecture, publishing practice and migrations. He has also been a guest lecturer and guest critic at Sciences Po; Columbia University GSAPP; HEAD — Genève; the Bartlett School of Architecture, UCL; the Bartlett School of Planning, UCL, the Welsh School of Architecture, University of Cardiff; Central Saint Martins, University of the Arts London.
His curatorial and editorial practice is grounded in social sciences and design, and seeks to establish connections across discourses, disciplines, spaces and media. His main current research themes include the sociology of plants, migration, the politics of technical artefacts, and invisibilised modes of resistance by making. He works with museums in the United Kingdom, France, Italy and across Europe as a curator, consultant and editor.
In 2024 he publishes his first book, The Zone: An Alternative History of Paris with Verso.
Justinien has also recently edited Ruderal : Liquid Identities (September 2024, Éditions deux-cent-cinq), and Visible upon Breakdown (Spector Books).
As an editor and publisher, Justinien has co-founded, published and edited Migrant Journal. As an editorial consultant or guest editor, Justinien has recently worked with Flaneur and Atelier Luma, among others.
In 2023–2024, Justinien is a fellow at Villa Medici, the French Academy in Rome. He is dedicating this year to the subversive and creative practice of “perruque”, when manual workers design and craft objets for themselves during their worktime, using the company tools. This project will be continued in 2025-2026 at the V&A East, London.
Justinien has participated to the Venice Biennale of Architecture 2021, among other exhibitions, while Migrant Journal has been exhibited at the XXII Triennale di Milano (French section), the Design Museum in London, and has been acquired by the Centre National des Arts Plastiques, France to join its permanent collection.
An urbanist, Justinien studies cities, their built environment, the ways they are lived in, imagined and governed. He has written for The Guardian, The Architectural Review, AOC, with articles on wood architecture, the Suez Canal, or an uncanny natural reserve in Bucharest, Romania.
Justinien has a PhD in urban studies (The Barlett, University College London). His thesis, The Boulevard Périphérique, anonymous œuvre of the Parisian technocracy deconstructs Paris’s ring road as a process at the crossroad of technical reason, social imagination and politics. Justinien has also studied urban planning, political science and policy at Sciences Po (École urbaine) and the London School of Economics (LSE Cities).
Justinien regulary works with museums and culural organisations, designers, architecture practices, public and private-sectors organisations as a consultant on design, cultural policy and urban planning. Among his clients: the Mayor of London, We Made That, Transport for London, Architecture 00, TVK. From 2018–2020, Justinien was associate director for Europe at Theatrum Mundi.
Justinien is a lecturer in History, Theory and Criticism at École nationale supérieure des arts décoratifs in Paris.
Justinien is regularly invited to to give talks, chair round-tables on cities, architecture, publishing practice and migrations. He has also been a guest lecturer and guest critic at Sciences Po; Columbia University GSAPP; HEAD — Genève; the Bartlett School of Architecture, UCL; the Bartlett School of Planning, UCL, the Welsh School of Architecture, University of Cardiff; Central Saint Martins, University of the Arts London.