Author: Florence Paterson

Laura Kocksch (Aalborg University Copenhagen)

April 30, 2025. The seminar “Digital Environmental Policies” will welcome Laura Kocksch (The Techno-Anthroplogy Lab at Aalborg University Copenhagen), who will talk about “Fragile computing: Directions for developing post-optimistic technologies”.

Maintaining in common: co-ownership beyond the infraordinary

April 11,2025. Seminar ‘Maintaining. Architecture and maintenance, what we care about’. For this second session entitled ‘Maintaining in common: co-ownership beyond the infraordinary’, we propose to investigate together the field of housing maintenance by focusing on co-ownership and its actors.

Maintaining. Architecture and maintenance, what we care about

The architectural agency SCAU and Jérôme Denis organize a new seminar entitled ‘Maintaining. Architecture and maintenance, what we care about’.

The history of architecture is closely linked to designo, the creative concept that establishes a relationship with time and materials, driven by intention and upheld in the project. Maintenance, a mundane, endlessly repetitive activity, is at first glance the antithesis of designo.

Shifting soil. A. Halauniova (Sciences Po, CSO) and L. Manach (CAK)

April 4, 2025. Shifting soil. The seminar “Economic expertise and environmental actions” welcomes Anastasyia Halauniova (Sciences Po, CSO) and Laure Manach (CAK). This session will consider soils as the shifting support of human activities, and as currently alterned by global warming. From the thawing of permafrost to the fate of carbon stored in soils, how are the transformations of soils retraced and anticipated? How are they taken up in both territorial and atmospheric politics?

Material fragility and maintenance under constraints

March 28, 2025. The architectural agency SCAU and Jérôme Denis organize a new seminar entitled “Maintaining. Architecture and maintenance, what we care about”. For this first session of the seminar, “Material fragility and maintenance under constraints: building to the test of reality”, the SCAU will have a look back at some of its projects.

Tessa Bonincontro

Tessa Bonincontro is a postdoctoral researcher in the ANTICIP project (Anticipation: the futures of French subsurface use) funded by the PEPR “Sous-sol bien commun” (The Subsurface as a Common Good) research program, coordinated by Alexandre Violle and Brice Laurent CSI-Mines…

Marie Garin

March 20, 2025. The seminar “Digital Environmental Policies” welcomes Marie Garin, who will talk about he mathematics thesis she completed at the Borelli Center (UMR 9010) and defended in 2024, “De l’apprentissage fédéré vers une théorie critique de l’apprentissage hétéromatique” (From federated learning to a critical theory of heteromatic learning), and the bridges she built with the social sciences in the course of this work.

Christelle Gramaglia (INRAE)

March 20, 2025. The CSI Guests Seminar welcomes Christelle Gramaglia (INRAE, University of Montpellier) to discuss her book “Habiter la pollution industrielle. Expériences et métrologies citoyennes de la contamination” [Living with industrial pollution. Experiences and citizen metrology of contamination]. Introduction to the discussion by Solène Sarnowski and Isaac Bariller.

Francesco Bertuccelli

Francesco Bertuccelli joined the CSI as a visiting fellow from March to May 2025. He is a PhD candidate in Political Science (Sociology, History and Political Culture) at the University of Pisa. His research interests are in the field of…