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Problems posed by the solutionist vision
Antibiotic resistance: systemic analysis of the issues to break the deadlock
Post-growth economics. Ecological planning versus the aporia of green capitalism

Cédric Durand Thursday 21 March 2024 Summary: The lack of plausibility of green growth, the impossibility of making the most of industrial ruins, the lack of time and overall perspective, the uncertainty of profits… The promises of green capitalism are as far from reality as there are shale gas drillings…
Technocritiques: from machine quarrels to technoscientific controversies

François Jarrige Thursday 16 March 2024 Summary: Taking a diversion into history, this talk looks at the political issues surrounding technology and the debates that have accompanied its development, from the first quarrels over machines to current controversies. Technical objects and systems are far from being neutral artefacts set in…
M1 or M2 internship: Engineering and support for energy-water-biodiversity-landscape transitions
Evaluation of the adaptive responses of groups of stakeholders using metabolic models Based on the work of the Inria STEEP team and the INRAE g-EAU laboratory (CoOPLAGE), the aim is to work with stakeholders in one or two fields to implement territorial metabolism models (provided) to help them consider their…
M2 internship: Design and development of the Transkey game

« Playing with biophysical flows to facilitate territorial transitions » Context One of the team’s emerging lines of research aims to contribute to the design, evaluation and debate on socio-technical alternatives for the future (e.g. 2050). Biophysical accounting methods (materials, energy, land use, etc.) provide an analytical grid that gives indications of…
M2 Internship: Modeling and field-testing the Transkey game

« Playing with biophysical flows to facilitate territorial transitions » Context One of the team’s emerging lines of research aims to contribute to the design, evaluation and debate on socio-technical alternatives for the future (e.g. 2050). Biophysical accounting methods (materials, energy, land use, etc.) provide an analytical grid that gives indications of…
M2 Internship: Calibration of serious games
Context This topic fits in with the STEEP team’s research and action-research activities. In particular, in its “Sociotechnical Alternatives” research axis, which aims to study the material basis of the economy (in physical rather than monetary units), to analyze its environmental impacts, and to propose participatory methods enabling stakeholders to…
Revolution and transition. Thinking ecology through work

Paul Guillibert Thursday 7 March 2024 SummaryThe dominant discourse on ecology emphasizes the role of consumption and technology in addressing the consequences of environmental disaster. Reasoned consumption, waste sorting, short and organic circuits, green industries, carbon capture technologies and even planetary geo-engineering often appear as slogans for ecological transition. On…