Process Engineering Renewal 3

2Prospective Elements Applied to the Transformation of Matter and Energy

The research plebeians could only rely on their own fear of losing their place in this hot, illustrious and compartmentalized garbage can. (Céline 2012)

Interdisciplinarity necessarily begins, on a daily basis, with the recognition of the cultural character of disciplinary identities. Interdisciplinarity has something to do with a very specific modality, culturally located in the scholarly sphere, of implementing a relationship of otherness, much more so than with the abstract modelling of disciplinary specificities thought out in the register of scientific rationality. (Le Marec 2002)

Foxes are interested in everything and move easily from one question to another. Hedgehogs are interested in only a few issues, which they consider fundamental and have been working on the same issues for years. Most of the great discoveries are made by hedgehogs, most of the small ones by foxes. To progress, science needs hedgehogs and foxes. (Dyson 2011)

We must not build a simpler model of society, we must accept it as being more complex. We must not design a more solid system, we must imagine it more flexible. We must not organize a single model, we must encourage diversity and movement. (Léonetti 2010)

No one, not even the most brilliant researcher today, knows where science is leading us. We are in a train speeding up on a track dotted with an unknown number of switches leading to mysterious destinations. There is ...