Speakers: Olivier Hamant (INRAE) and Matthieu Calame (FPH).

 

Olivier Hamant is a biologist and INRAE research director at ENS Lyon. In parallel with his work on understanding how plants use to control their development, he is involved in a training program exploring the many implications of the Anthropocene. He is also the head the Institut Michel-Serres and works on humanity's new relationship with nature. The author of several essays questioning the notions of fragility, complexity, performance and resilience of biological systems, he has developed a political philosophy of “robustness” as an alternative to the dogma of performance.

 

Matthieu Calame is an agricultural engineer and Director of the Charles Léopold Mayer Foundation for Human Progress (FPH), dedicated to supporting ecological and social transitions. His career has included managing the Bergerie farm (Domaine de Villarceaux) and presiding over the Institut Technique de l'Agriculture Biologique (ITAB). In several books, he explains and disseminates the concept of agroecology. By exploring the correspondence between types of society and types of agriculture, he develops and imagines the characteristics of an “ecological” agriculture and society, to be placed under the heading of “cohabitation”.