Experiments for industrial exploration. Testing a car sharing system

Martin Tironi and Brice Laurent
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Martin Tironi: School of Design, Pontifical Catholic University of Chile
Brice Laurent: Centre de Sociologie de l'Innovation, Mines ParisTech

No 36, CSI Working Papers Series from Centre de Sociologie de l'Innovation (CSI), Mines ParisTech

Abstract: In 2012, considering its development strategy for the electric car market, Renault turned the town of Saint-Quentin-en-Yvelines into a experimentation and demonstration laboratory, with the installation of electric cars as part of a car sharing system without fixed stations, called Twizy Way. In this paper the authors take into account the ontological work this experiment produces, its demonstrative ability and the way it intertwines knowledge, as part of boundary drawing within the framework of the experiment itself. They speak of a form of flexible laboratorisation affected by doubt and constant reorganisation of the elements making up, overflowing and interfering with the experiment.

Keywords: care; maintenance; material ecology; material vulnerability; ordering Devices (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: I18 Z18 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 16 pages
Date: 2014-04
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