Summer School Centre Energy4Climate and Campus de la Transition
This Summer School organized by the Energy4Climate Interdisciplinary Center (E4C) and The Campus de la Transition explores the interactions between technology and the energy transition from an interdisciplinary point of view. Activities emphasize the dialog between various approaches and practices, moving beyond the opposition between techno-optimistic views and low-tech perspectives.
This year's topic: Low and high techs: which social-technical solutions for the energy transition?
The Summer School will take place from June 26th to July 1st at Palaiseau (Energy4Climate interdisciplinary center) and from July 2nd to July 7th at Forges (Campus de la Transition).
► Registration (opened until April 30th)
Programme
- 26/06: Welcoming, framing of the school and presentation of the case studies.
- 27/06: Ecological issues & obstacles to the transformation of cities and building & Experiences of scientists’ engagement
- 28/06: Design Fiction: Designing disruptive visions of future buildings
- 29/06: Engaging with socio-technical controversies
- 30/06: Managing innovation and discussing high-tech experiences
- 03/07: Introducing the Campus, its building and its project & introducing industrial ecology through life-cycle analysis
- 04/07: Making sense of sufficiency and experimenting with low-techs & Rethinking the neutrality of scientists and engaging in research action
- 05/07: Challenging the dominant energy paradigm: the uneven historical development of alternative energies
- 06/07: Taming technological development?
- 07/07: Final project presentations and conclusion
The interdisciplinary Energy4Climate Center (E4C) launched in June 2019 by the Institut Polytechnique de Paris and the École nationale des ponts et chaussées is involved in the energy transition through research, training and innovation.