Making science public

11-12 décembre 2014

Olivier Graefe

Olivier Graefe, Professeur, Université de Fribourg

Stuart Lane, Professeur, Université de Lausanne

Sarah Whatmore, University of Oxford

Flurina Schneider, CDE, Université de Berne

Cet atelier de deux jours servira de plate-forme pour échanger les diverses expériences et réfléchir sur le rapport entre science et société. Il s’agira d’analyser les différentes approches de communication, d’actions et de participation de différents acteurs scientifiques et non-scientifiques impliqués dans la définition de projets, de stratégies ou de politiques environnementales.

Over the last two decades, geographers have become interested in participation, both as an object of study and as a means of practicing geographical research. This reflects wider deliberations over the status of knowledge in decision-making, including the legitimate role of experts within societies that have democratic governance systems to various degrees. Science and scientists have not escaped such deliberations, and a large body of both theory and empirical research has argued for a redistribution of expertise and a reformulation of how experts are situated within decision-making. This is of particular interest for Geography, as a discipline that straddles the natural sciences, social sciences and humanities. Whilst some human geographers have actively contributed to this debate, others as well as physical geographers have largely ignored it. Hence, the aim of this workshop is to think through the theoretical and conceptual basis of ‘Making Science Public’. Following the intervention by Professor Sarah Whatmore, School of Geography and the Environment, Oxford University, who has made major contributions to this topic. We will follow this with opportunities for you to think and to present issues and ideas about why and how your research might be made public. A second intervention will follow from Dr. Flurina Schneider, Center for Development and Environment, Bern University. A second opportunity for you to present will follow for those who would like to reflect upon the role of public participation in their work. The workshop will finish with a Round Table where we will consider and discuss participation in general and Making Science Public in particular from a critical perspective.

Villars-sur-Ollon, La Maison de Montagne: http://www.mmbretaye.ch/

Plan

Thursday 11^th December

08h21 Lausanne, train direction Brig, arr. Aigle à 08h51

08h55 Aigle, bus direction Villars-sur-Ollon, arr. 09h35

09h30 Villars-sur-Ollon, train crémaillère direction Col de Bretaye, arr. 09h49 Bouquetins

10h30 Coffee and welcome

10h45 Introduction

Geographical perspectives on making science public, Stuart Lane

Part 1: Philosophies of public science

11h00 Sarah Whatmore, School of Geography and the Environment, Oxford University

Participating publics:  What kind of science for which kind of public?

12h00            Discussion

12h30 Lunch

13h30 Perspectives on making science public

Contributions from CUSO members

6 x 20 minutes presentation, 20 minutes discussion

2 hours, 30 minute break, 2 hours – finish 18h00

18h00 Apéritif

19h00 Dinner

Friday 12^th December

Part 2: Modes of making science public

08h30 Flurina Schneider, Centre for Development and Environment, Berne University

Transdisciplinary research in geography: how to increase social learning processes?

09h30 Discussion

10h00 Coffee

10h30 How do we do science in public?

3 x Contributions from CUSO members

20 minutes presentation, 20 minutes discussion

2 hours

12h30 Lunch

Part 3: Thinking critically about public science

13h30 Table Ronde

Sarah Whatmore, Flurina Schneider, Olivier Graefe, Stuart Lane, Olivier Ejderyan (Chair)   

Two hours

16h04 Bouquetins, train crémaillère direction Villars-sur-Ollon, arr 16h20

16h33 Train crémaillère direction Bex, arr 17h19

Train 17h23 direction Valais

Train 17h35 direction Lausanne (arr Lausanne 18h14)

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