RESEARCH INTERESTS
Makers Culture and Digital Fabrication, Do It Yourself and Crafts
Social Impacts of Artificial Intelligence and Technology
Citizen Participation
Commons, Free Software and Distributed Governance
Sociotechnical Imaginaries and Utopias
Smart, Productive, Fab City and Industrial Heritage
Qualitative Research
Creative Writing
Based on 18 months of fieldwork in Barcelona, Sandrine’s thesis focuses on the political potential of citizen participation in digital fabrication spaces (Makerspaces, Fab Labs, Ateneus). The doctoral research focused on the Maker’s culture, the links between industrial and digital manufacturing, socio-technical imaginaries, technological and urban utopias.
RESEARCH ASSISTANT
2023 – 2024 Project to enhance the value of the Anthropology Department's collections of ethnographic objects using artificial intelligence systems, under the direction of Professor and Head of Department Martin Hébert and in conjunction with the activities of the Multimodal Anthropology Laboratory. Project title: IArtefact. Reconnecting, recontextualising, revitalising. Using artificial intelligence to enhance the educational value of an ethnographic collection.
2023 Conducting a literature review on citizen science with Professor Maxime Polleri (Anthropology - Université Laval).
2022 – 2023 Research on Citizen Participation of European Civil Society on Artificial Intelligence Issues with Professor Karine Gentelet (UQO). A project funded by the AI+ Society initiative of the University of Ottawa’s Centre for Law, Technology and Society.
2022 – 2023 Creation of two modules in a content aggregator and an immersive experience called “The Code Brigade: an adventure to understand algorithmic bias and fight for social justice” (in French) with Professor Karoline Truchon (UQO): Youth and AI + Hacktivism and Technology
2022 Documentary research and writing of a pedagogical case on the mobilization of workers against a digital multinational with Professor Nolywé Delannon (Faculté des Sciences de l’administration – Université Laval)
2020 – 2022 Abeona - ENS - OBVIA Chair in Artificial Intelligence and Social Justice (Chair holder: Professor Karine Gentelet)
2019 – 2020 Digital strategy and content development for the Groupe de Recherche Interuniversitaire sur le Tibet et l’Himalaya (GRITH) with Professor Isabelle Henrion-Dourcy
2019 Literature review about literary utopias and imagined cities with Professor Martin Hébert
