Mittwoch, 22. Mai 2024, 17:00 - 18:30 iCal
STS Talks Vienna
Béatrice Cointe (CSI, Paris):
“Infrastructuring the future:
IIASA and the «Carbon Dioxide Problem» since the 1970s.“
STS Seminar Room, NIG, St. II. 6th floor
Universitätsstraße 7, 1010 Wienna
Vortrag
Abstract
Climate science and politics rely on a knowledgeinfrastructure to chart out global futures. In order to grasp thisinfrastructure in (some of) its material, institutional and historicaldimensions, I will focus on the role played by the International Institute forApplied Systems Analysis (IIASA), founded in 1972 in Laxenburg, Austria as abridge between East and West. One of the first international hubs of climateand energy research, IIASA has been a crucial site for the problematization ofglobal environmental problem, particularly climate change - or, as it used tobe called « the Carbon Dioxide Problem ». IIASA published a detailedanalysis of the climate consequences of energy choices in the late 1970s; ithas held a series of interdisciplinary workshops gathering leading climateresearchers in the 1990s; it is one of the birthplaces of the concept of« negative emissions »; and it now hosts one of the main IAMs as wellas the IPCC emission scenarios databases. It is thus a fascinating entryway toanalyze the establishment of an interdisciplinary knowledge infrastructure onenergy and climate futures.
Biography
Beatrice is a researcher at theCentre for the Sociology of Innovation (CSI-i3), Mines Paris-PSL Adjunct prof.,CERES. Beatrice’s work explores the relations between environmental concernsand the organisation of the economy. Relying on the ethnography of science andthe sociology of economics and markets, she focuses on the part played byeconomics and natural science. She is particularly interested in the productionof economic knowledge and in their articulation with other sciences, especiallyto deal with climate change.
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Kontakt
Katrin Hackl
Institut für Wissenschafts- und Technikforschung
01427749607
katrin.hackl@univie.ac.at
Erstellt am Donnerstag, 28. März 2024, 16:42
Letzte Änderung am Montag, 15. April 2024, 08:47