16 November 2023

09:35 – 10:20

Amphithéâtre Say

B. Bensaude-Vincent

Bernadette Bensaude-Vincent, philosopher and historian of science and technology, is Professor Emeritus at the University of Paris I Panthéon-Sorbonne. She is a member of the Académie des technologies and several ethics committees. Winner of the George Sarton Medal from the History of Science Society in 2021, she is the author of a dozen books and coordinator of some twenty collective works. Recent publications include Temps-paysage. Pour une écologie des crises (2021), Between Nature and Society. Biographies of Materials (2022), Living in a Nuclear World. From Fukushima to Hiroshima co-edited with S. Boudia, K. Sato (2022).

Conference: Are ecological transition and innovation compatible?

Isn’t it an illusion to claim that we can achieve an ecological transition through innovative technical solutions? To reduce our carbon footprint and make the world more sustainable, we need to move away from the cult of innovation, and question the arrow of time, in order to compose the heterogeneous temporalities of technical objects in a more harmonious way.