Nous accueillons quatre jeunes chercheurs internationaux dans le cadre du centre d’excellence de Montpellier (MAK’IT) la première semaine d’octobre.

Plusieurs collègues à G-EAU ont interagi avec ce collectif. Pendant leur séjour, ils organisent un séminaire intitulé « Modelling for just water transformations » pour partager et mettre en débat leurs réflexions sur l’apport de la modélisation dans le domaine de l’eau.

Le séminaire aura lieu dans la salle Exp’eau à G-EAU le 3 octobre de 14h à 16h. Venez nombreux ! Merci de signaler (pour des raisons logistiques) votre présence à Jean-Philippe Venot ou Bruno Bonte, co-auteurs de l’article cité dans l’annonce.

You are cordially invited to the seminar ‘Modelling for just water transformations’. 

The seminar is organised as part of the CAT project “Controversial tools: researching modelling practices in water governance” funded by NetIAS. As four early career scholars (Rossella Alba, Bich Tran, Jonatan Godinez and Rozemarijn ter Horst), we explore the multiple social and political factors influencing models and modelling waters. Our starting point is that models are far from neutral tools, their development and use are profoundly shaped by the geographical, institutional and historical context in which they are developed, by technologies and by the many choices made by those involved in the modelling process, e.g. modellers, commissioners and other stakeholders (ter Horst et al. 2024). To this end, we interrogate how models are developed by whom, for whom, and with which implications for the distributions and qualities of water. Building on this initial critical interrogation of modelling, we are now turning towards exploring how models and modelling can support just water transformations. For us, just transformation involves situated knowledge, ad hoc local commitments, and negotiations between different worldviews, knowledges, objectives and values. During this seminar, we will introduce our CAT project and present the insights we gained so far. In a facilitated discussion, we invite participants to share their feedback on our work and to share experiences, ideas, examples, and (novel) practices for modelling waters for just transformations.