June 12, 2025. Seminar ‘Maintaining. Architecture and maintenance, what we care about’. Insurance and Maintenance: from vanishing line to breaking point. The focus of this third session is on the expert and the insurer. The session will provide an opportunity for the crossing of narratives and for a shifting of the gaze of practitioners as well as researchers. Guest speakers: Ludovic Patouret, expert engineer / cabinet GECAMEX  (technical and financial construction litigation) and Michel Klein, Deputy General Manager, Mutuelle des Architectes Français assurances (MAF).

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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.

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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.

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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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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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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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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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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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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.

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