Author: Florence Paterson

Orso Roger

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Thesis title: Designing and managing the future: foresight practices as a strategic “dispositif”

Supervisors: Liliana Doganova (thesis supervisor) and Benjamin Cabanes (maître de thèse)

For several decades, organizations have been implementing foresight methods with the aim of integrating long-term considerations into their activities and strategies. In 2017, the Vinci Group launched the Leonard platform to conduct such foresight initiatives. This thesis proposes to investigate the practices within this platform in order to understand how future-oriented thinking influences the realms of economics and entrepreneurial life. […]

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Louison Magro

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Titre de la thèse : Creating a common label out of a collective production between State and activist mechanisms: Open Food Facts at the heart of the making of environmental labelling.

Supervisors: Alexandre Mallard and Clément Marquet.

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Matilda

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by Didier Torny, Matilda’s scientific director

An academic literature search tool, based on open data and open source software, having a comprehensive coverage of literature published since 2019.

Now available online.

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Alexandra Kowalski

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Project 2023-24: “Following ANT: an intellectual history of Actor-Network Theory”.  The project is to research and write the intellectual genesis and international history of “actor-network theory” between the 1970s and the present. Alexandra Kowalski is currently a visiting scholar at…

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Doctoral thesis defense of Roman Solé-Pomies

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September 19, 2023. The Center for the Sociology of Innovation (i3 CNRS UMR 9217, Mines Paris – PSL) is pleased to invite you to the thesis defense of Roman Solé-Pomies “Faire durer la chaussée. Le souci des voiries communales en France métropolitaine après la décentralisation / Making Pavements Last: The Care of Municipal Road Infrastructures in Decentralized Mainland France”. 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”.

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Minor in PAI

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On 5, 22 et 26 September 2023, 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.

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