Biomimétisme(s). Imitation du vivant et modélisation de la vie. Rencontres Techniques et Culture – 24 & 25 septembre 2019 – Mucem et Vieille Charité, Marseille

Biomimétisme(s). Imitation du vivant et modélisation de la vie 

Rencontres Techniques&Culture n°4

Journées organisées par Perig Pitrou (CNRS/Collège de France/PSL), Lauren Kamili (EHESS/ADEME) et Fabien Provost (Université Paris Nanterre)

24 et 25 septembre 2019, Mucem et Centre Norbert Elias (EHESS Vieille Charité), Marseille

Contact : techniques-et-culture@ehess.fr

Inscription obligatoire : https://bit.ly/30qjCRZ

Depuis plus d’une vingtaine d’années, dans un contexte de crise écologique, se développe l’idée selon laquelle l’innovation technologique et les organisations sociales devraient se « reconnecter » au vivant afin de mieux préserver l’environnement. Cette valorisation récente du biomimétisme ne doit toutefois pas faire oublier que de nombreuses sociétés, passées et actuelles, identifient dans l’observation de la nature une source d’inspiration pour mener des projets très divers. Afin de mieux appréhender cette diversité, la revue Techniques&Culture  s’intéressera à la variété des techniques employées et des intentions à l’œuvre dans ce type d’entreprises.

Rencontres organisées grâce au soutien de la Mission pour les Initiatives Transverses et Interdisciplinaires (CNRS)

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Mardi 24 septembre 2019, 10h30 à 18h

Mucem, Salle Khamsin, Fort St Jean, Marseille 2^e

10h30 – Accueil des participants

11h – Session 1 – Vie & Technique

Perig Pitrou (CNRS/Collège de France/PSL), Le biomimétisme dans la perspective de l’anthropologie de la vie 

Guillaume Bagnolini (Université de Montpellier/Centre d’Éthique Contemporaine), Éthique, biohacking et biomimétisme en France

Discussion animée par Pierre-Olivier Dittmar (EHESS)

13h – Pause méridienne

14h30 – Session 2 – Systèmes écologiques

Emmanuel Ferrand (Sorbonne Université) & Dominique Peysson (Paris Est Marne-la-Vallée), Bio-mimesis & Bio-mimétisme

Yoann Moreau (Mines Paristech/PSL), Suivre la / ma nature

Marie Lusson (IRSTEA Montpellier), Faire ou laisser-faire ? La restauration écologique comme expérience d’imitation de la nature

Discussion animée par Frédéric Joulian (EHESS)

16h – Pause

16h30 – Session 3 – Corps

Emmanuel Auvray (Université de Caen, par visioconférence), La locomotion des animaux comme modèles écologiques pour la natation de l’homme ou la fin de l’exemple de la grenouille (fin XIX^e)

Lauren Kamilli (EHESS/ADEME), Apprendre à voir le vivant. La construction du regard dans un parcours biomimétique 

Jean-Baptiste Eczet (EHESS), Imitation et mise en signe du bovin : le devenir humain dans le cattle complex

Discussion animée par Roberte Hamayon (EPHE)

18h – Fin de la première journée

  

Mercredi 25 Septembre, 9h30 à 16h

EHESS Vieille Charité, 2^e étage salle A

2 rue de la Charité, Marseille 2^e

 09h30 – Accueil

10h – Session 4 – Artefacts

Juliette Bessette (Sorbonne Université), Bucky Fuller : optimiser la structure de la nature

Sasha Wallinger (Reed College) & Gozde Goncu-Berk (University of California Davis), Biomimicry in sneaker design : walking with an eye to the world

Elizabeth Johnson (Durham University), Intensive geopolitics : the biomimetic military and planetary management

Discussion animée par Fabien Provost (Université Paris Nanterre)

12h30 – Pause méridienne

14h – Session 5 – Molécules, cellules et microorganismes

Sacha Loeve (Université Jean Moulin Lyon 3), Comme si la nature imitait l’art. Les machines moléculaires artificielles et leurs analogues naturels

Cyrille Jeancolas (ESPCI Paris/PSL), Modéliser la transition de l’inerte au vivant, ethnographie d’un laboratoire de recherche

Mathilde Gallay-Keller (EHESS/MNHN/CNRS), Biomimétisme et organismes modèles dans la recherche environnementale et biomédicale. Le cas des collections vivantes de microbiologie du Muséum national d’Histoire naturelle

Discussion animée par Philippe Nghe (ESPCI Paris/PSL)

15h30 – Synthèse des deux journées par Fabien Provost (Université Paris Nanterre)

16h00 – Clôture par Annabel Vallard (CNRS), co-rédactrice en chef de Techniques&Culture

Publicité

JOURNÉE D’ÉTUDES « L’ANIMISME AUJOURD’HUI » – 17 MAI 2018 – COLLÈGE DE FRANCE

Laboratoire d’Anthropologie Sociale
Équipe « Anthropologie de la vie et des représentations du vivant »
Projet La vie à l’œuvre
Projet IRIS – Origines et conditions d’apparition de la vie
Pépinière interdisciplinaire CNRS-PSL Domestication et fabrication du vivant
Labex TransferS

L’animisme aujourd’hui

Journée d’études organisée par
Perig Pitrou & Joffrey Becker

Dans le cadre du séminaire
Anthropologie de la vie et des représentations du vivant

le 17 mai 2018
9h30 – 17h30

Collège de France – Salle 2
11 place Marcelin Berthelot
Paris

Inscription obligatoire sur :
https://goo.gl/forms/v4TCzpQRO3LtkUxk2

Programme

 

Programme

9:30
Accueil

9:45
Perig Pitrou (CNRS – LAS – PSL)
L’animisme aujourd’hui. La perspective de l’anthropologie de la vie

10:15
Martin Fortier (EHESS – PSL)
L’animisme sans essence : âmes, maîtres et identité biologique chez les Pano d’Amazonie et au-delà

11:00
Pause

11:30
David Dupuis (Durham University – LAS)
Les gringos deviendraient-ils animistes ? Rencontres avec le végétal dans un centre chamanique d’Amazonie péruvienne

12:15
Istvan Praet (University of Roehampton – Chercheur Invité IRIS-OCAV)
Animisme & astrobiologie : Des laboratoires conceptuels

13:00
Pause

14:00
Émilie Letouzey (Université Toulouse Jean Jaurès – LISST)
Animé, animer : exemples d’“animizumu” en contexte japonais

14:45
Teresa Castro (Université Sorbonne Nouvelle – Paris 3 – IRCAV)
Un cinéma animiste ? De l’individualité technique à la subjectivité machinique de la caméra

15:30
Pause

16:00
Joffrey Becker (LAS – IRIS-OCAV – PSL)
Devenons-nous animistes au contact des robots ?

16:45
Discussion générale

COLLOQUE – 1er & 2 FÉVRIER, BIOSPHERE 2, ARIZONA. « BIOCOSMOS – OUR SENSE OF PLACE, OUR SENSE OF LIFE IN THE UNIVERSE”

CNRS-ENS-UA International Research Center iGLOBES
and
Paris Sciences & Lettres Research University
Interdisciplinary Program on Origin and Conditions of Appearance of Life

« BIOCOSMOS – Our Sense of Place, Our Sense of Life in the Universe”

Workshop organized at the University of Arizona by Dr. Perig Pitrou (Collège de France/PSL Research University, Paris), Dr. Istvan Praet (University of Roehampton, London), Dr. Regis Ferriere (University of Arizona and ENS/PSL Research University, Paris) and Dr. Kevin Bonine (University of Arizona)

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February 1-2, 2018, at Biosphere 2

Planet scientists and exoplanet astronomers are re-shaping our understanding of the universe, presenting a fascinating cosmos filled with places and destinations, not an empty void. At the same time, Earth physicists and biologists design models of self-sustainable ecosystems such as Biosphere 2 and the Lunar Greenhouse, with the goal of engineering bio-regenerative mini-worlds that can function on their own. As these scientific revolutions unfold, with distant spaces and global life systems as objects of “field work”, what counts as the “human environment”? How do we, as individuals and societies, relate to spaces, things, and processes we do not or cannot experience directly and which we see as “extreme” or “beyond” human? As scientists study these distant spaces and global processes, how do their findings transform our understanding of what it means to be in the world? How do inquiry and insight change our outer space imagination and the way we comprehend Earth on a whole, planetary scale? Will all this impact how our societies confront today’s environmental challenges?

Tackling these big questions requires off-the-beaten-path dialogue among anthropologists, space scientists, and Earth system researchers. To promote this conversation, the International Research Center iGLOBES (CNRS-UA-ENS UMI 3157) and Paris Sciences & Lettres Research University (Program OCAV, Origins and Conditions of Appearance of Life) organize a two-day workshop at Biosphere 2, on February 1-2, 2018.

To attend please register
by sending an email to Ms. Ruth Gosset at rgosset@email.arizona.edu
with your name, department, institution, day(s) you plan to attend.

Day 1 (Thursday, February 1) will be devoted to the question of how we, humans, use our perception and understanding of life and nature on global Earth to design, engineer and use ‘mini-worlds’ – miniaturized artificial ecosystems that can function on their own and help us meet some of our most pressing global challenges, such as food production, climate control, clean water, and safe energy beyond current environmental or economic limits.

Location: MOJAVE ROOM

8:30-9:00              Welcome coffee/tea

9:00-9:15              Opening remarks by workshop organizers.

9:15-10:15          John Adams (UA Biosphere 2)

Biosphere 2: Concept, reality, implications

10:15-11:15       Peter Troch (UA Hydrology & Biosphere 2)

Experimenting on the Earth system with LEO

11:15-12:15       Gene Giacomelli (UA Agricultural & Biosystems Engineering) The Mars/Lunar Greenhouse: From Design to Function

12:15-1:00           Break

1:00-1:45             Perig Pitrou (Collège de France/Paris Sciences-Lettres University)

Life as a Making: Modeling, Miniaturization and Figuration of Living Systems

1:45-2:00             Coffee break

2:00-4:30             Doctoral and Post-Doctoral Session moderated by Joffrey Becker (Collège de France/Paris Sciences-Lettres University): Life Systems, Models, and Machines

2:00-2:15             Joffrey Becker (Collège de France/Paris Sciences-Lettres University)

Introduction: CyberPhysical Systems

2:15-2:30              Yadi Wang (University of Arizona)

Soil genesis in LEO artificial hillsopes

2:30-2:45              Elsa Abs (ENS/Paris Sciences-Lettres University & Univ. Arizona)

Modeling the soil-atmosphere connection by evolving microbes

2:45-3:00              Coffee break

3:00-3:15              Leah Aronowsky (Harvard University)

Multispecies Spaceflight

3:15-3:30              Boris Sauterey (ENS/Paris Sciences-Lettres University)

Modeling the co-evolution of ecosystems and planet habitability

3:30-3:45              Blair Bainbridge (University of Chicago)

Life in the Great Silence

3:45-4:30             Roundtable discussion with Greg Barron-Gafford (School of Geography and Development and Biosphere 2, University of Arizona) and workshop presenters and organizers.

Posters on display by Greg Barron-Gafford (U. Arizona), Erana Loveless (U. Arizona), Katarena Matos (U. Arizona), Antonio Meira Neto (U. Arizona), Aditi Sengupta (U. Arizona).

Day 2 (Friday, February 2) will bring together astronomers and planetary scientists, environmental biologists, anthropologists and philosophers to tackle the questions of what counts as the “human environment”, what it means to be in the world, and how we comprehend Earth in its globality, in the light of observation and exploration of distant spaces that revolutionize our understanding of the universe.

Location: LOWER HABITAT

9:00-10:00           Coffee / Ice breaker / School students meet speakers

10:00-10:10        Opening remarks by Dean Joaquin Ruiz (UA Biosphere 2)

10:10-10:50        Valerie Olson (UC Irvine, Anthropology)

Ecosystems as Objects of Study and Collaboration: Lessons from the Ethnographic Field

10:50-11:30        Dante Lauretta (UA, Lunar and Planetary Laboratory)

Planetary Exploration and Our Understanding of Life

11:30-11:50        Discussion

11:50-12:30        Break

12:30-1:10           Marcia Rieke (UA, Astronomy)

Characterizing Exoplanets: What Do We Know?

1:10-1:50              Istvan Praet (University of London at Roehampton, Anthropology)

Petri dishes, Islands and Planets. Astrobiology and the Modelling of Biospheres

1:50-2:10              Discussion

2:10-2:50              Lisa Messeri (Yale University, Anthropology)

Being Elsewhere: Analog Fieldwork and the Planetary Imagination

2:50-3:30              Chris Impey (UA, Astronomy)

Our Future in Space

3:30-4:00              Discussion and closing

After workshop ends, participants may consider visiting the Kuiper LPL Art of Planetary Science on UA main campus, 5:00-9:00 PM. The exhibit continues on February 3 and 4, 1-5PM. More information at https://www.sites.google.com/site/lpltaps/

 

COLLOQUE INTERNATIONAL « LA VIE À L’OEUVRE – NOUVELLES ÉCOLOGIES, BIOART, BIODESIGN » – 16 & 17 OCTOBRE, MUSÉE DE LA CHASSE ET DE LA NATURE

Colloque international

La vie à l’œuvre
Nouvelles Écologies, bioart, biodesign

Organisé par Perig Pitrou, CNRS, Labex TransferS

16 & 17 Octobre 2017
Auditorium du musée de la Chasse et de la Nature
62, rue des Archives – 75003 Paris

Accès libre dans la limite des places disponibles
Réservation recommandée : reservation@chassenature.org / 01 53 01 92 40

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Ce colloque réunit des artistes, designers, architectes et chercheurs qui développent une réflexion sur les manières d’intégrer le vivant dans des projets en art, en design et en architecture. En exposant des êtres vivants ou des processus vitaux, ou en instaurant des collaborations avec eux, ces explorations qui mettent « la vie à l’œuvre » contribuent à faire émerger de nouvelles écologies. Ces projets ont en commun de redéfinir la notion de nature, en invitant à repenser les modalités des interventions des humains au sein de leurs environnements. Ce n’est alors pas simplement la création de formes vivantes inédites qui est intéressante mais l’étude des systèmes de relations qui se tissent autour de ces êtres. Un des enjeux de cette réflexion collective sur l’instauration de nouvelles écologies est de repenser l’articulation entre nature et technique. Les pratiques en art, design ou architecture conduisent en effet à explorer l’imbrication entre processus vitaux et processus techniques et à s’interroger sur les diverses manières qu’ont les humains de vivre avec la nature tout en la transformant.

 Comité scientifique

Claude d’Anthenaise, Musée de la Chasse et de la Nature
Ludovic Jullien, Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique – École Normale Supérieure – Université Pierre et Marie Curie
Anne de Malleray, Fondation François Sommer – Revue Billebaude
Perig Pitrou, Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique
Antoine Triller, Institut de Biologie de l’École Normale Supérieure

Renseignements projet « La vie à l’œuvre » : viao@univ-psl.fr

Sites : http://www.transfers.ens.fr/la-vie-a-l-oeuvreexplorer-les-potentialites-du-bioart-et-du-biodesign
http://www.chassenature.org/la-vie-a-loeuvre

CALL FOR PAPERS: INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE « LA VIE À L’OEUVRE – LIFE AT WORK. NEW ECOLOGIES, BIOART, BIODESIGN » – OCTOBER, 16 & 17, MUSEUM OF HUNTING AND NATURE, PARIS

Paris Sciences et Lettres
Labex TransferS

Musée de la Chasse et de la Nature
62, rue des Archives, Paris 75003

International conference
“La vie à l’œuvre”
Life at work
New ecologies, bioart, biodesign

Organised by
Perig Pitrou

October 16 & 17, 2017

Scientific committee
Claude d’Anthenaise (Musée de la Chasse et de la Nature)
Anne de Malleray (Fondation François Sommer – Revue Billebaude)
Ludovic Jullien (CNRS-ENS-UPMC PASTEUR)
Perig Pitrou (CNRS – Laboratoire d’anthropologie sociale)
Antoine Triller (Institut de Biologie de l’École Normale Supérieure)

Call for papers

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In view of the international conference co-organised by the Musée de la Chasse et de la Nature (Museum of Hunting and Nature, Paris) and PSL Research University (Labex TransferS), this call for papers targets artists, designers, architects and researchers – both in social sciences and natural sciences –, who are engaged in interrogating how the living can be incorporated in art, design, as well as architecture projects. By displaying living beings and vital processes, or by collaborating with them, these explorations that put « life at work » contribute to the emergence of new ecologies, effectively or speculatively, as speculative design and critical design do. Whether or not they inscribe their approaches into bioart and biodesign – categories whose boundaries are actually far from being clearly defined, these projects have in common to redefine the notion of nature, by inviting us to reconsider the modalities of human beings’ interventions on their environments. The issue is then not only to pay attention to the creation of unprecedented life forms (hybrids, semi-livings, etc.) but also to study the new networks of relationships that develop around them. In order to explore these relationship dynamics and highlight the ability of these experiments to invent new ecologies, it is suggested to take a closer look at three types of phenomena

1/ New interactions between living beings

First, it is the diversity of interactions between living beings (exchange, symbiosis, commensalism, predation, etc.) and the modalities of inter-species communication that is worth being addressed on several scales – from the microbiome to the planetary environment. Concurrently to the possibility to make new Life Forms appear within their environments, it is necessary to examine the capacity of creators to imagine new Forms of Life.

2/ Vital processes and transformations

The interactions that living beings establish with other living beings, and more broadly with their environment, lead us to question the continual transformations at work in the organisms and the multiple connections established between them. Through metabolic processes, organisms are indeed linked to each other, for example through oxygen production (by plants or cyanobacteria), or by their integration in trophic chains. Projects depicting this kind of processes – often by inserting them in technical processes – open up significant paths to highlighting the dynamic and cyclic dimension of living systems.

3/ The evolution of living systems

When considered on an even wider temporal scale, life arises in evolutive processes that, over generations, modify the species and their relations to the environment. From the old practices of selective breeding of plants and animals, to the contemporary methods of genetic engineering and molecular biology, human beings have endeavoured to develop techniques to act on these natural phenomena. Often led by practical concerns – ecological as well as economic –, these interventions sometimes are the products of aesthetic approaches. The diversity of intents driving the creators’ work enables thus to increase our capacity to think the directed evolution in all its complexity, as well as in its prospective potentials.

By starting a collective reflection on the introduction of new ecological systems, one stake is to rethink the articulation between nature and technique. Instead of opposing them, arts, design and architecture practices lead up to exploring the intertwining between vital processes and technical processes, and to questioning the various ways humans live with nature while transforming it.

Paper proposals and information requests must be submitted to Viao@univ-psl.fr before June 15, 2017.

Important dates:
June 15, 2017: deadline for submission
June 30, 2017: notification of acceptance
August 30, 2017: deadline for final title and abstract submission
October 16 & 17, 2017: Conference at the Museum of Hunting and Nature, Paris