October 21, 2025. The CSI Guests Seminar welcomes Jeanne Ételain (École supérieure des Beaux-Arts de Montpellier) to discuss her book “Zones. Terre, sexes et science-fiction”, Flammarion, coll. Terra Incognita, 2025. Introduction to the discussion (tbc).
September 30th, 2025. The Center for the Sociology of Innovation (i3 CNRS UMR 9217, Mines Paris – PSL)
is pleased to invite you to the thesis defense of Léone-Alix Mazaud “Dealing with biodiversity. Operators sensitive to non-human life in urban and architectural projects”. Doctoral thesis specialized in STS (Sciences, Technologies & Society), prepared at Mines Paris – PSL, under the Social Sciences programme of SDOSE doctoral school, “Sciences of Decision, Organizations, Society and Exchange”.
On September 19, 22 and 23, 2025, students enrolled in the minor in Public Affairs and Innovation (PAI) will defend their end-of-studies projects. Under the supervision of CSI researchers, students build on the operational or research work they have carried out during their final internships to analyze a public affairs issue relating to the political dimensions of technical activities.
September 12, 2025. Seminar ‘Maintaining. Architecture and maintenance, what we care about’ : Here and now: time of third places. Challenging the temporal logic of traditional actors, transitional urban planning puts maintenance and operation back at the heart of the project. Activating a place involves developing it, ‘restarting the machine’, and considering its sustainability.
June 26, 2025. The Center for the Sociology of Innovation (i3 CNRS UMR 9217, Mines Paris – PSL)
is pleased to invite you to the thesis defense of Clément Foutrel “The zone and its networks. From Monaco to Monastir, an investigation of marine protected areas in Tunisia.” Doctoral thesis specialized in STS (Sciences, Technologies & Society), prepared at Mines Paris – PSL, under the Social Sciences programme of SDOSE doctoral school, “Sciences of Decision, Organizations, Society and Exchange”.
June 18-19, 2025. Focusing on the encounter between the knowledge that populates knowledge activities in the environmental arena and the work of the sensitive that runs through them, the “Making (ourselves) sensitive with the ecological knowledge of modernity” study days will explore the intersection of ecological knowledge and sensitivity. The study days aim to bring together perceptions, affects, and aesthetics in an analysis of ways of becoming sensitive by manipulating instruments traditionally associated with scientific objectivity.
June 13, 2025. This event addresses researchers and practitioners exploring promises, practices and tensions between digital technologies and ecology. It will provide an opportunity to present work from two recently published special issues – Écologiser par le numérique? (Réseaux no. 144) and Matérialités environnementales du numérique (Reset no. 15). The morning session will open with a lecture given by Laurence Allard (MCF, Paris Sorbonne Nouvelle), and the afternoon session will close with a roundtable discussing multidisciplinary perspectives.
June 12, 2025. Seminar ‘Maintaining. Architecture and maintenance, what we care about’. Insurance and Maintenance: from vanishing line to breaking point. The focus of this third session is on the expert and the insurer. The session will provide an opportunity for the crossing of narratives and for a shifting of the gaze of practitioners as well as researchers. Guest speakers: Ludovic Patouret, expert engineer / cabinet GECAMEX (technical and financial construction litigation) and Michel Klein, Deputy General Manager, Mutuelle des Architectes Français assurances (MAF).
27 May 2025. The CSI Guests Seminar welcomes Nelo Magalhaes (CRH-EHESS) to discuss his book “Accumuler du béton, tracer des routes Une histoire environnementale des grandes infrastructures”. Introduction to the discussion by Guilhaum Panas and Guillaume Louvet.
22 May 2025. The Interdisciplinary Institute on Innovation (i3) and the library of Mines Paris – PSL are hosting a joint event with Ève Chiapello and Alexandre Violle. They will be presenting their book “Sociologie des circuits financiers. Les infrastructures de l’argent et leur politique” on Thursday, May 22, 2025, from 6:00 to 7:30 p.m. Alexandre Mallard, director of i3, will moderate the discussion.
