Author: Florence Paterson

Critical zone. S. Dutreuil (CNRS) and J. Gaillardet (Institut de Physique du Globe)

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.

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(Dé)faire l’industrie. Enquêter sur les formes contemporaines de l’industrialisation

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? […]

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Aude-Solveig Epstein (Paris Nanterre University)

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’]”.

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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”.

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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.

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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.

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Digital Environmental Policies

The seminar is organized by Clément Marquet (CSI, Mines Paris / PSL, i3) and Sophie Quinton (Inria, GDS EcoInfo), as part of the Politiques environnementales du numérique [Digital Environmental Policies] working group of the GDR Internet, AI and Society.

For the past few years, the environmental consequences of digital technologies have been the subject of increasing attention, calling into question the promise of a convergence between ecological and digital transition.

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Arpentage & Écriture. STS Reading Workshop

The workshop aims to provide a welcoming space for young researchers of all disciplinary backgrounds who are interested in the study of science and technology in France. The workshop offers a forum for discussion based on group readings, fundamental concept…

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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?

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