Alexandre Monnin

Alexandre Monnin is the scientific director of Origens Media Lab, co-founder of the Closing Worlds initiative and a teacher-researcher in a management school (ESC Clermont BS). Since the start of the 2020 academic year, he has been the director of the Master of Science "Strategy & Design for the Anthropocene", jointly run with Strate School of Design in Lyon. He is also a member of the board of directors of the 27th Region and CY School of Design. Between September 2013 and November 2014 he both initiated and coordinated an official collaboration between Inria and the Ministry of Culture as part of the Ministry’s digital policy agenda regarding the future of the Web and the Web of data. In 2013, he was appointed member of the network of experts of the Etalab mission under the responsibility of the Prime Minister. Prior to that, he was a researcher at Inria (2014-2017), did a residency at the Fellow at the Ecole nationale supérieure de photographie d'Arles (June 2016), was Fellow at the Digital Cultures Research Center (DCRL) of Leuphana Universität (Lüneburg) during the 2015 winter semester (November 2015), Junior Fellow​ at IKKM during the 2013 summer semester (Bauhaus Universität, Weimar) (May-July 2013), consultant for UNESCO (2014), Head of Web research at the Institute for Research and Innovation at Centre Pompidou (2010-2013), Chief librarian at Ecole nationale des chartes (2009), Digital Humanities research contractor at Ecole des chartes (2007-2008) and three times invited PhD student at the Edelweiss Inria team at Inria Sophia Antipolis and once at LIRMM (CNRS) in Monpellier. A.M. was also the architect of the documenting platform of the Galeries Lafayette Foundation for Contemporary Art (Lafayette Anticipations) between 2014 and 2017, a project he continues to work on with the Mnémotix cooperative. He was also one of the initiators of the French-language DBpedia project in 2011 between the French Ministry of Culture, Inria, Wikimedia France while he was Resarch associate with the Edelweiss team at Inria Sophia Antipolis-Méditerranée (2011-2014). A.M. also co-founded the W3C "PhiloWeb" Community Group in 2012 and the "Web Web We can Afford" one in 2016. A.M. holds a PhD in philosophy from the University of Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne, and his thesis was dedicated to the philosophy and architecture of the Web. He co-edited a special issue of *Metaphilosophy* (vol. 42, 4) on this subject that later became a book (*Philosophical Engineering. Towards a Philosophy of the Web*, Wiley Blackwell, 2013) as well as a special issue of the journal *Intellectica* (n°61, "*Philosophy of the Web and Knowledge Engineering*") and multiple proceeding ("*PhiloWeb 2012 - Web and Philosophy: Why and What For?*"; "*WebSci '13: Proceedings of the 5th Annual ACM Web Science Conference*", "*SW4SH 2015 - Semantic Web for Scientific Heritage 2015*"; "*SWASH 2016 - Semantic Web for Scientific Heritage*"). More recently, he was also one of the co-authors of the report *Lean ICT: Towards Digital Sobriety*, published by the Shift Project in 2018. Between 2019 and 2020 he co-edited special issues of the journals *Multitudes* (n°76 with Laurence Allard and Cyprien Tasset, "Is it too late for collapse?"), *Sciences du Design* (n°11, Anthropocene and collapse", with Laurence Allard), *Passerelle* (n°21: "Low-tech: face au tout numérique, se réapproprier les technologies") and *SociologieS* ("Du pragmatisme au méliorisme radical", with Antoine Hennion). With Diego Landivar and Emmanuel Bonnet, he is about to publish a book entitled *Héritage et Fermeture - une écologie du démantèlement* (Divergences).