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?
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 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…
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.
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.
March 7, 2025. Economic knowledge and growth. The seminar “Economic expertise and environmental actions” welcomes Vicky Kluzik (Goethe University Frankfurt) and Arnaud Orain(Centre de recherches historiques – CRH-UMR CNRS 8558, EHESS). Has economic science always naturalized the goal of growth as economic policy? In this session, our guests will focus on the history of economics to show how alternative economic thinkers and knowledge have been concerned at different times with the biophysical limits of our planet, against the idea of the possibility of infinite abstract growth. We will collectively discuss the extent to which this knowledge aligned with other conceptions of economic expertise and its relationship to democracy, as well as the reasons why it has been forgotten or excluded from the mainstream economic discipline.
Antoine Hardy’s postdoctoral research aims to understand how the consideration of the environmental impact of computer science research contributes to the redefinition of the field. He is thereby extending his Ph.D. research on the “greening” of scientific practices. This research project, funded by lnria, is co-supervised by Clément Marquet (Mines-PSL) and Sophie Quinton (Inria Grenoble).
Title of the thesis: Intermediaries in private housing energy renovation. Under the supervision of Thomas Reverdy (PACTE, Grenoble-INP) and Alexandre Mallard (CSI, Mines Paris – PSL). The thesis examines how an ecosystem of public and private actors emerges and organises…
February 7, 2025. Lands, mines, futures. The seminar “Economic expertise and environmental actions” welcomes Tobias Olofsson (Lund University) and Gisa Weszkalnys (LSE). In this session we will explore the anticipation techniques used by a variety of actors (industry and government in particular) to create desirable futures for the development of new mines around the world (in Europe and Africa). This session is organised in partnership with the members of the ANTICIP du PEPR sous-sol bien commun project.
by Jérôme Denis and David Pontille
What does a coffee machine, a car, road signs, a smartphone, a cathedral, a work of art, a satellite, a bicycle, a washing machine, a bridge, a watch, a computer, the body of a prominent politician and a tractor have in common? Pretty much nothing – except for the fact that, no matter how small, large, important or insignificant something is, it rarely survives without being cared for. […]
