Knowledge, Organization and Technical Systems (COSTECH)
Costech is a research unit from various fields in the Humanities and Social sciences. Its distinctive characteristic mainly concerns the relations between man, technology and society: technical conditions for gaining knowledge, real-life experience and values; uses and new social practices for digital media; modelling and management of innovation and changes in organizations.
There are three research groups :
Cooperation, Risk and Innovation
Cognitive research and Enactive Design
Anthropology and Semiotics of Digital Media
Costech combines ambitious, non-conventional conceptual research and is especially interested in testing technical, organizational and social accomplishments.
This explains why Costech is involved in numerous practical topics and technological development :
Electronic democracy
Development of perceptual substitute systems
Management of knowledge and intangibles
Local end regional development
Technical aids and body interactions
Interaction metaphors
Risk and sustainable development management
Workshops
Activities are coordinated around 2 monthly workshops (interdisciplinary workshop, interpretation and project development workshop), 3 annual seminars (Cognitive sciences and technology; Organization, innovation and international relations; Sustainable development) and different platforms (Technical media and body interactions; Philosophy of techniques; PAT mirror technique.
Partnerships
Academic and institutional partnerships :
European excellence network in Enactive interfaces
