The 2017 Forccast Controversy Mapping Awards Ceremony took place on June 30 at Sciences Po. This was a special occasion as the event capped off an all-day symposium organized for the hand-over of Bruno Latour to Dominique Cardon at the head of Sciences Po’s Médialab. A prize was awarded to the best work realized in 2017 within the framework of three different courses that, as Nicolas Benvegnu, executive director of the Forccast program, recalled, were successively created and taught by Bruno Latour. The earliest course […]
Democratic experiments, a book by Brice Laurent
Entering the Offices of Bureaucracy: Ethnographic Perspectives
Capitalization. A Cultural Guide
Collective investigation in San Francisco with the students minoring in Public Affairs and Innovation
From 7 to 20 February 2016, the twelve students minoring in Public Affairs and Innovation (PAI) went to San Francisco as part of a study trip to participate in a collective investigation. In the frame of the CitEx project (City Experiment with urban mobility practices), involving a partnership with the Institute for Sustainable mobility (Renault-Nissan Alliance), the investigation explored the linkages between infrastructures, urban innovation…
Une santé qui compte ? Les coûts et les tarifs controversés de l’hôpital public, a book by Pierre-André Juven
Investigating maintenance and repair
Jérôme Denis arrived at the CSI in May. Part of his investigations concerns the – often-invisible – work that is being done at an earlier stage of the circulation and dissemination of data, in various areas (administrations, banks, city services…). Over the last few years, along with David Pontille, he has also developed a research interest around maintenance and repair activities.
He co-runs, with David Pontille and Didier Torny, Scriptopolis, a blog dedicated to the ordinary writing practices
Signer ensemble. Contribution et évaluation en sciences, a book by David Pontille
Signing Together. Contribution and Evaluation in Science Scientific activity is crossed with a fundamental tension between organizational forms of collaborative work and evaluation policies that consecrate individual geniuses. This tension regularly restarts the debates about the authorship of scientific articles…