September 30th, 2025. The Center for the Sociology of Innovation (i3 CNRS UMR 9217, Mines Paris – PSL)
is pleased to invite you to the thesis defense of Léone-Alix Mazaud “Dealing with biodiversity. Operators sensitive to non-human life in urban and architectural projects”. 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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December 13, 2024. Water management. The seminar “Economic expertise and environmental actions” welcomes Léda Dimitriadi (ENSA, UMR AUSSER) and Sophie Tabouret (EHESS, CIRED). How to manage water in a changing climate? This session, organised as part of the FORET project funded by the CNRS – MITI, will look into water management insofar as it connects land planning and infrastructure development on the one hand, and hydrogeology and climatology on the other hand.

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On October 23, 2023, the Center for the Sociology of Innovation held a day-long tribute to Bruno Latour.

Bruno Latour has left a considerable intellectual legacy, many milestones of which he set during his twenty-five years at the CSI, where he was, in turn and in his own way, an anthropologist of science and technology, a political theologian and an investigative philosopher. During this event, members of the CSI, Bruno Latour’s companions along the way and researchers whom he has inspired or baffled will continue their conversation with his work.

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