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”.
by Antoine Hardy and Laurène Le Cozanet (Eds)
Putting the world into numbers is profoundly political. This multidisciplinary collective book sheds light on a crucial yet little-explored aspect of these operations: their audiences.
Presses des mines
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).
June 3, 2025. For its 3rd edition, and as part of the course entitled “Description de controverses” [Description of controversies] coordinated by Madeleine Akrich (CSI-i3, Mines Paris-PSL), the TTI.5 Environmental Controversy Award rewarded the best study of an environmental controversy carried out by students in the Civil Engineering Program at Mines Paris-PSL.
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.
Essays on the Politics, Ethics, and Aesthetics of Maintenance and Repair
Edited by Fernando Domínguez Rubio, Jérôme Denis and David Pontille.
An original essay collection that explores the generative dimensions of fragility, which can help reveal new life-affirming politics and ethics.
The MIT Press, Infrastructures Series
Agence SCAU – Centre de sociologie de l’innovation
In order to understand what fragility does and could do to architecture, the architectural agency SCAU and the Center for the Sociology of Innovation (CSI – Mines Paris PSL) have partnered to supervise a doctoral thesis in Science and Technology Studies (STS), the objective of which is to provide empirical and theoretical input to the research studies on maintenance and repair practices initiated within the agency several years ago and carried out at the CSI.
The deadline for submitting applications is April 30, midnight.
