This research project aims to explore the energies and materials mobilized for the so-called green transitions from historical and contextual perspectives. It will address scientific designs, environmental impacts, social debates, resistance to technology and controversies between experts and lay-people which have shaped the way we understand, produce and foster those energies and materials. The project […]
In the mid-20th century, scientists and historians of science acknowledged the rise of a new mode of organization of physical research. Large-scale projects around particle accelerators and nuclear reactors gathered hundreds of scientists and technicians working towards well-defined goals. The term Big Science was coined around 1960 to describe these projects. The term Little Science […]
This project aims to contribute to debates on new materials for energy transitions by exploring the environmental and technopolitical history of the production, circulation, and consumption of an old yet highly significant material: concrete. “Energy transitions” are intrinsically linked to materials, both historically and in the present. Concrete, the most widely used construction material, has […]