Alice Mazeaud is a researcher and lecturer in political science at the University of La Rochelle. Her research focuses on how public action is transformed in relation to participatory and environmental imperatives. She is particularly interested in the issues and effects of the professionalization of citizen participation on public action and democracy. She is the author of numerous articles and books on participatory democracy, its mechanisms and actors, as well as on ecological transition policies.

In her keynote, Alice Mazeaud will address the issues and limits of the multiplication of participatory mechanisms in environmental public action. She will discuss the place of simulation and games in the field of citizen participation and in ecological transition policies. Can games contribute to democratizing the ecological transition, and in what ways? Or are they part of an individualized and depoliticized environmental governmentality?