Seminars
- Sobriety and rebound effects: challenges, obstacles, levers
Pierre-Yves Longaretti 10 Janvier 2023 - Why is sufficiency necessary, and what are the obstacles to its implementation ?
Pierre-Yves Longaretti Presentation: EcoInfo conference on 26 November 2019 Summary: The notion of sufficiency refers to an implicit distinction between desires and needs, with the distinction between the two coming under the notion of limits and the search for ‘authentic happiness’. But this approach is ambiguous, or at least incomplete: while the question of natural… - Conference by Grégoire Chambaz: “Collapses: Is voluntary simplification possible?”
Grégoire Chambaz 16 Juin 2019 Summary: Faced with future challenges and the risk of societal collapse, voluntary simplification is regularly presented as a difficult but functional solution. Its aim would be to make societies more sustainable by reducing the overall consumption of resources. But is it really a feasible or even credible strategy? To answer… - From medical imaging to climate: machine learning for the good of society
Sophie Giffard-Roisin 28 January 2019 Summary:By establishing collaborations with experts in specific fields, we can use the power of artificial intelligence to help make diagnoses, and also to find concrete, local solutions for our societies. I will first talk about my doctoral work in medical imaging and non-invasive cardiac techniques for predicting surgery at Inria… - Digital in the face of environmental and social catastrophe
Emmanuel Prados 21 January 2019 Summary:Humanity is currently facing unprecedented and intertwined challenges. We now hear daily talk of environmental, financial, debt, economic, monetary, political, democratic, social, refugee and geopolitical ‘crises’. How can we understand and interpret this accumulation of difficulties? Are they temporary or are they due to deeper phenomena such as the collapse…
