<div dir="ltr"><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 8pt;line-height:107%;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span lang="EN-US">Dear Maintainers,</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 8pt;line-height:107%;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span lang="EN-US">We are re-scheduling
this panel on care, maintenance and energy infrastructures at the </span><a href="https://sts-ch.org/sts-ch-2021/" style="color:rgb(5,99,193)"><span lang="EN-US">Swiss STS Meeting</span></a><span lang="EN-US"> (“<i>Multiple Matters: From
neglected things to arts of noticing fragility</i>”) which will take place on <b>15-17 February 2021. </b>See panel description below.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 8pt;line-height:107%;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span lang="EN-US">The
organizers plan for an <b>online or</b> <b>hybrid event</b> (physical meeting + online
attendance). </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 8pt;line-height:107%;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span lang="EN-US">If some of
you would like to join, please send us a short proposal (max 250 words)
with names and affiliations by <b><u style=""><font color="#000000">15
November</font></u> </b>(at this address: <a href="mailto:tristan.loloum@unil.ch">tristan.loloum@unil.ch</a>). Thank you!</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 8pt;line-height:107%;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span lang="EN-US">Take care,</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 8pt;line-height:107%;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span lang="EN-US">Tristan,
Moritz and Alain</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 8pt;line-height:107%;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span lang="EN-US">Panel
description</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 8pt;line-height:107%;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:16pt;line-height:107%">Taking care of energy infrastructures</span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 8pt;line-height:107%;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><i><span lang="EN-US">Organizers: Tristan Loloum, Moritz Fürst, Alain
Bovet (University of Lausanne)</span></i></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 8pt;line-height:107%;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span lang="EN-US">The energy
transition is often framed in terms of a technological challenge and an
engineering problem, involving innovative design, efficient planning, and effective
optimization of energy infrastructures and the built environment. This
innovation-centric view tends to neglect the fact that ‘change' often occurs
once energy systems are already in place, through incremental adaptations,
additions and enhancements. The focus on engineers, planners and designers also
puts aside the many actors in charge of operating and maintaining such systems
on a daily basis: grid operators, HVAC technicians, facility managers,
installers, caretakers, etc.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 8pt;line-height:107%;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span lang="EN-US">Drawing on
authors like Maria Puig de la Bellacasa (2017), Dona Haraway (2016) and Bruno
Latour (2013), we argue that fixing ‘things' and taking care of energy
infrastructure implies more than maintaining their technical functioning: it
means caring for the people who use them and their environments, and it
requires active engagement, social skills and a sense of concern towards
associations between humans and non-humans. The session therefore extends on
current debates in science and technology studies and energy social science that
(I) observe how classical dichotomies (e.g. between planning and operation,
professionals and users, engineers and technicians, people and machines) are
maintained, and sometimes contested and reconfigured; (II) investigate energy
infrastructure and energy transition at the level of everyday lay and
professional care-taking activities, i.e. considering energy practices as
situated and culturally embedded realities rather than in terms of dominant
paradigms of technological innovation and economic rationality.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 8pt;line-height:107%;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span lang="EN-US">This panel
session invites contributors from all disciplinary horizons, looking at energy
infrastructure “from below and within”, focusing on operation routines, control
rooms, repair and maintenance, incremental improvements, “middle actors” (technicians,
installers, controllers, caretakers, facility managers), disruption, practices
of daily-use and socio-technical encounters. We particularly encourage
prospective participants to emphasize the richness of empirical material in
their presentations, exhibit visual and/or audio data, or even material objects
that can form a basis for a fruitful discussion. If appropriate conditions are
in place, the session will be followed up by a quick tour of the conference
venue's infrastructural backstage and/or a meeting with one of the building's
facility managers/maintenance staff in order to get a concrete grasp of what
energy infrastructure is, and what taking care of it actually entails.</span></p>
<b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11pt;line-height:107%;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">KEYWORDS</span></b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11pt;line-height:107%;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">: energy infrastructure, care, operation, repair
& maintenance, energy practices</span> <br><br clear="all"><div><br></div>-- <br><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_signature" data-smartmail="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><font color="#000000" face="Helvetica"><span style="font-size:12px">Tristan LOLOUM</span></font><div><font color="#666666" style="background-color:rgb(255,255,255)" size="1"><span style="font-family:"Century Gothic",Helvetica,Verdana,sans-serif"><br></span></font></div><div><font color="#666666" style="background-color:rgb(255,255,255)" size="1"><span style="font-family:"Century Gothic",Helvetica,Verdana,sans-serif">Université de Lausanne</span><br style="font-family:"Century Gothic",Helvetica,Verdana,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:"Century Gothic",Helvetica,Verdana,sans-serif">Institut de géographie et durabilité – Site de Sion</span><br style="font-family:"Century Gothic",Helvetica,Verdana,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:"Century Gothic",Helvetica,Verdana,sans-serif">Ch. de l'Institut 18 - Bramois</span><br style="font-family:"Century Gothic",Helvetica,Verdana,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:"Century Gothic",Helvetica,Verdana,sans-serif">Case postale 4176 - </span><span style="font-family:"Century Gothic",Helvetica,Verdana,sans-serif">CH-1950 Sion 4</span></font><br></div><div><br></div><div><a href="https://igd.unil.ch/tloloum/" target="_blank"><font size="1">https://igd.unil.ch/tloloum/</font></a></div><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Helvetica;font-size:12px">||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||</span><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Helvetica;font-size:12px">|||||||||||||||||||||||||</span><br></div></div></div></div>