Analysis & design of the temporal formats of living infrastructures for co-designing the dual agro-ecological and digital transition

I'm a post-doc in the Transition Design Lab, a research group associated with the ETIS laboratory at CY Cergy Paris Université. The Transition Design Lab is part of CY Ecole de design, and focuses on transition issues in the field of design.
I'm a designer and design researcher. After taking a baccalauréat in applied arts (STI), I joined the preparatory class for the grandes écoles in applied arts and design at the Lycée la Martinière-Diderot in Lyon. I then went on to obtain my bachelor's degree in Design and Environments at Paris 1 Panthéon Sorbonnes, before going on to obtain my Master's degree in Research in Design, Arts and Media in 2015. I then joined Arts métiers for a post-master's semester at the Centre Michel Serre pour l'innovation, during which I took part in an interdisciplinary innovation project. In 2018, I started a Cifre thesis in partnership with a digital design agency, and attached to Telecom Paris and the Institut Polytechnique de Paris.
The subject of my thesis was co-design formats and their temporal structure. After 3 years with the agency and a year of taking a step back, analysing data and writing, I defended and obtained my PhD in Design and Information and Communication Sciences in January 2023. Since November 2024, I have been a post-doctoral fellow on a research project funded by the PEPR Agroecology and Digital. The project is called LINDDA (Living INfrastructure to Design Responsible Digital technologies for Agroecological transition).
I'm working on the issue of time in the co-design of transitions: how does time play a role in the co-design of transitions? How does the temporal structure of co-design activities affect the participants? How does it enable and constrain co-design work? How are the heterogeneous temporalities of participants managed in transition projects involving different stakeholders? How are the long timeframes of the transitions managed in relation to the short timeframes of the project?  What formats are used to project into the future? How are the different representations of the future shared within collaborative projects, etc.? The hypothesis is that the temporal dimension is not neutral when we talk about transitions, since they require the participation of heterogeneous actors with different visions of past, present and future time.
In LINDDA, my interest in the temporal dimension of the co-design of agricultural and digital transitions will enrich and help to develop a model of innovation infrastructure for the design of responsible digital technologies supporting the agro-ecological transition.

• Starting date: 1st November 2023
• University: CY Cergy Paris Université
• Scientific field: Design and Information and Communication Sciences
• Funding: PEPR LINDDA benefiting from the "ANR-22-PEAE-0004" aid awarding contract dated February 10, 2023, LINDDA being a targeted project of the "Agroecology and digital" Priority Research Programs and Equipment (PEPR) action, piloted by INRAE and INRIA.
• Supervisor(s): Annie Gentès, ETIS, CY Cergy Paris Université
• Research project: Projet LINDDA : Living INfrastructure to Design responsible Digital technology for Agroecological transition (PEPR AgroEcoNum)

Keywords: Temporality; co-design; participatory design; transition design; agroecology

Abstract: The LINDDA project (Living INfrastructure to Design responsible Digital technology for Agroecological transition) is a multi-disciplinary project that brings together design, engineering, ergonomics, humanities and social sciences... to understand the design modalities in place or needed for digital-supported agroecological transitions.
Co-designing transitions must take into account the diversity of timeframes of participants in digital innovation projects for agro-ecology. Each participant has different rhythms of commitment, reflection, decision and action, etc. Formats need to be rethought to create dynamics that enable shared temporalities. Empirically, we need to study relationships with futures, the temporal modalities of situations embodied in media, and the rhythms of innovation. Experimentally, we need to design, test and evaluate systems that combine expectations and variable temporalities, in order to understand the conditions under which solutions emerge.

Contact: justine.peneau [AT] cyu.fr

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Dorian Reunkrilerk, Justine Peneau, Nawelle Zaidi, Zoé Bonnardot, Samuel Huron. L’expérience de la thèse CIFRE : étudier et rendre visible la recherche salariée en design. Sciences du Design, 2023, n° 18 (2), pp.42-60. ⟨10.3917/sdd.018.0042⟩. ⟨hal-04563451⟩

Justine Peneau. Dynamique dispositive et structure temporelle de la co-conception : une analyse du travail de design en agence. Sciences de l'information et de la communication. Institut Polytechnique de Paris, 2023. Français. ⟨NNT : 2023IPPAT002⟩. ⟨tel-04071268⟩

Justine Peneau. Approche critique du « design empathique » : le cas du design sprint au sein d’une agence digitale. Approches Théoriques en Information-Communication, 2023, N° 6 (1), pp.141-162. ⟨10.3917/atic.006.0141⟩. ⟨hal-04205934⟩

Laurent Mertz, Justine Peneau, Dorian Reunkrilerk. Traductibilité et design : explorer les paramètres génératifs du brief. Revue Appareil [En ligne], 2022, Traduction & Design, 24. ⟨hal-03777906⟩

Annie Gentes, Justine Peneau. Figures de la science dans des contextes de conception. Communication & langages, 2020, Cultures numériques en afriques francophone. Observer les pratiques, questionner les concepts, 205, pp.147-165. ⟨10.3917/comla1.205.0147⟩. ⟨hal-03120684⟩

Estelle Chaillat, Justine Peneau, Dorian Reunkrilerk. Annie Gentès. The indiscipline of design: bridging the gap between humanities and engineering. Azimuts, 2019, Négocier les futurs, 50, pp.268-273. ⟨hal-03279842⟩