Organised by the laboratory Transitions, Savoirs, Médias, Territoires – Friday 7 December 2018

Seminar
How to approach ecology in the smart city, city-territory?

With Professor Dominique Boullier (EPFL, Lausanne) as guest speaker

Programme :
9:00 AM The UCA perimeter: a territory of high ecological and digital value – P.J. Barre (IMREDD) and F. Grenon Boillot (TransitionS)
9:20 AM An essential step: clarifying representations: Nature, ecology… – F. Couston (TransitionS) Technopole vs Smart City – J. Araszkiewiez (TransitionS)

Pause

11:30 AM The conference: Greening digital or digitalising ecology in the regions? – D. Boullier (EPFL, Lausanne)
Ecologising corresponds to Ulrich Beck’s second modernity movement, the one that reflexively takes into account all attachments and all the consequences of its strategies. Depending on the choices made regarding digital technical architectures in territories, it will become possible to compose an ecologically responsible digital world or not, as seen with smart cities or sharing cities, for example. Maintaining this pluralism of possible policies against the supposed fatal inevitabilities of technological solutionism is becoming increasingly urgent due to the drift of social networks, AI solutions, or security flaws. An ecologically responsible and politically chosen development of digital architectures is already being implemented in cities and with applications that are sometimes less visible than the dominant platforms.

12:15 PM The debate: how to approach ecology in the smart city, urban territory? Research question breakdown

The guest speaker:
Dominique Boullier Professor of Universities in France (Sociology). Senior researcher at the Digital Humanities Institute at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Lausanne (EPFL) since 1st December 2015. Affiliated with the College of Humanities. Was a professor at Sciences Po Paris until November 2015, a researcher at the CEE then at the médialab of Sciences Po (former scientific coordinator with Bruno Latour from 2009 to 2013).

Latest reference publication on the issue: «Sociology of the Digital». Armand Colin Editions, 2016.