The NSERC CREATE program Simulation Based Engineering Science (SBES) of Polytechnique Montréal, as part of the workshop series "Non-technical aspects of engineering through simulation and innovation", will receive Professor Yves-Marie Abraham of HEC Montréal on Friday, January 13, 2023 from 2:00 to 3:30 pm.

The presentation will be in hybrid mode. The conference will be held in person for students in Montreal (Main building, Bernard Lamarre Amphitheater, C-631), and by videoconference for students outside of Montreal.

Zoom link: https://polymtl-ca.zoom.us/j/86845802610?pwd=RlBoQW8rWVc3U1JKK3RWVWVOTjkxQT09

Coffee, tea and pastries will be served at 1:45 pm.

Summary: What techniques for post-growth societies?

A key factor in the enormous economic growth of the last two centuries, many of the industrial techniques most used today are not ecologically sustainable, contribute to worsening inequalities between humans and ultimately make us ever more vulnerable and dependent. How then can we conceive techniques that, while supporting our capacity to act, allow us to live without threatening the habitability of our planet, without creating either masters or slaves and without reducing us to the state of simple cogs in a megamachine dominating us from all sides? This is the question that underlies the "low tech" approach that we will try to promote in this presentation.