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.
21 mai 2025. La formation doctorale est au cœur de l’Institut interdisciplinaire de l’innovation – i3. Les thèses engagées dans i3 renouvellent l’analyse et l’accompagnement de l’innovation technique et sociale.
L’organisation de journées doctorales vise à faire connaître les travaux de thèse en cours au sein d’i 3, à engager un échange pluridisciplinaire autour de thématiques communes aux équipes d’i 3 et à faire un retour aux doctorants pour les aider dans leur parcours.
May 16, 2025. Critical zone. The seminar “Economic expertise and environmental actions” welcomes Sébastien Dutreuil (CNRS, Centre Gilles Gaston Granger) and Jérôme Gaillardet (Institut de Physique du Globe). Drawing on the notion of the critical zone, which originated in the environmental sciences and has been revisited by Bruno Latour in his latest work, this session will explore transformations in the relationship between science, society and politics, as well as in the role of critique and STS, brought about by the rise and structuring of the sciences of habitability and their infrastructures. The session is organized in liaison with the FORET project supported by the CNRS MITI.
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.
The CSI organizes an annual reading seminar aimed at exploring innovative research questions, approaches and topics based on the discussion with the authors of books recently published or in the course of publication. The guests in this seminar series are French and foreign researchers in human and social sciences (history, anthropology, law, sociology, political sciences, Science and Technology Studies…). […]
by Marine Al Dahdah, Mathieu Baudrin, Laurène Le Cozanet, Clément Marquet, and Benjamin Raimbault
Taking an interdisciplinary approach, the book analyses the changing forms of industry in the contemporary period, focusing on four key questions: How do industrial transformations lead us to rethink our methods of inquiry? How have information technologies changed the way industry is done? Which human and non-human actors are resisting processes of industrialisation? What territories are produced by these reconfigurations? […]
13 May, 2025. The seminar “Digital Environmental Policies” will welcome Aude-Solveig Epstein (Paris Nanterre University), who will talk about “The environmental regulation of digital technology: a legal critique of the ‘twin transition’]”.
