Title of the thesis: What Fragility Does to Architecture: Maintenance and Care of Hospital Technical Services. Supervision: Jérôme Denis. This thesis project examines what fragility does to architecture by studying maintenance and care provided by technical services in hospital buildings.In…
Bruno Latour developed his research and teaching activities at the Center for the Sociology of Innovation of École des Mines from 1982 to 2006, carrying out a large part of the work for which he is best known. With Michel…
A civil engineer from the École des Mines de Paris who earned a postgraduate degree in economics, he joined the Centre for the Sociology of Innovation in the late 1960s. Sharing a close intellectual friendship with Jean-Pierre Vignolle and Antoine…
La part du droit dans le travail, hypothèses pour une autre histoire du salariat”. More about the CSI research seminar →
Technical democracy and the engagement of concerned groups in scientific and technical debates and activities have been central in the CSI’s recent research agenda. This topic can’t be avoided when one focuses on the interlinking relationship between scientific and technical…
Previous work at the CSI has shown that the shaping of markets (their creation, stabilization and transformation) is the result of actions undertaken by multiple actors with widely diverse approaches and interests. Within economic sociology – a field that is…
The sociology of translation, situated in a pragmatist perspective, does not assume the existence of predefined groups or actors with interests, knowledge and needs. On the contrary, the aim of its analysis is to describe the transformation of socio-technical networks…
