Mylene Tanferri
Postdoctoral Researcher
University of Padua- Department of Philosophy, Sociology, Pedagogy and Applied Psychology (FISPPA)
mylene.tanferri@gmail.com
Mylène Tanferri is a Postdoctoral Researcher in Science and Technology Studies working at the intersection of sustainability, innovation, and multispecies studies. Her broad interests concern perceptual and representational practices, how we agree on what is “good,” and how these practices are co-constituted with digital technologies. Her current research focuses on sustainability claims in digital innovation for agriculture and multispecies encounters mediated by technologies.
She currently leads her project SUSTS-CLAIMS, funded by a Stars@UNIPD grant, tracing how networks around specific Agtech projects in Switzerland and Italy help shape definitions of sustainability in digital agriculture. Previously, she was a Marie Skłodowska-Curie Individual Fellow at the IT University of Copenhagen (2024–2026) for her project DIGIPHYT (a multi-site, multispecies ethnography of plant sensor development), and a postdoctoral researcher at the University of Lausanne (2021–22) with the project “Patrimonialisation du Direct” (PI Dominique Vinck), where she also obtained her PhD in social sciences in 2021.
She has published in SociologieS, New Sociological Perspectives, TSANTSA, and Études de Communication, and contributed a chapter to the Elgar Encyclopedia of Science and Technology Studies (with Vinck, 2024). She is currently editing a collective volume titled “Sciences, Technologies, Multispecies: Fieldwork Approaches to a Multiplicity of Agents.”
Recent Publications
(2024) Riom, L., Tanferri, M., “Sur la piste des préparations : préparer, répéter, mettre en place pour que les choses adviennent”, introduction to the special issue, Revue d’Anthropologie des Connaissances, v. 18, n°2, online.
(2024) Tanferri, M., Vinck, D., “Following values in engineering design and conception practices”. In: Felt, U., & Irwin, A. (Eds.), Elgar Encyclopedia of Science and Technology Studies, pp. 349–356.
(2023) Tanferri, M., Weber, S., Vinck, D, “Peut-être que je peux retomber sur ses pattes ?” Agentivités multiples et constitutions audiovisuelles d’un spectacle à partir de sa captation”, SociologieS, online.
(2023) Camus, L., Tanferri, M., Waeber, S., Vinck, D., “Documenter le spectacle vivant. Apports théoriques et méthodologiques de l’analyse vidéo des interactions”, Cahiers d’histoire du Cnam, 16(1), pp. 67-90. 2023 Camus, L., Fischer, E., Tanferri, M., Vinck, D., “Des formes d’autorité en régie audiovisuelle: la réalisation télévisée de la Fête des Vignerons”, Leresche, J-P., Sainsaulieu, I., C’est qui ton Chef ?! Sociologie du Leadership en Suisse, Lausanne, PPUR, pp. 329-340.
(2022) Tanferri, M., “Digitizing Heritage: More than Clicking on a Button, Producing Good Copies,” New Sociological Perspectives, online.
(2021) Vinck, D., Tanferri, M., “Taking the metaphor of theatre seriously: from staging a performance toward staging design and innovation”. In: Clausen, C., Vinck, D., Petersen, S., Dorland, E., (eds.), Staging Collaborative Design and Innovation: An Action-Oriented Participatory Approach, Cheltenham, Edward Elgar, pp. 232-251.
(2021) Vinck, D., Waeber, S., Tanferri, M., “Produire un son « naturel » : imbrication et différenciation de l’analogique et du numérique pour créer l’univers sonore d’un spectacle de grande envergure”, TSANTSA – Journal of the Swiss Anthropological Association, v.26, p. 51-70.
(2021) Waeber, S, Tanferri, M., Vinck, D., “Comparer l’invisibilisation des techniques dans le travail de narration audiovisuelle d’un grand spectacle : un siècle de production filmique sur la Fête des vignerons”, Ethnographiques.org, online.
(2017) Tanferri, M., As promessas do digital em arquivos patrimoniais: atividades e outros accordos situados. In: Gibert, J., Gómez, A., Cancino, R., (org.), Ciencia, tecnología y sociedad en América Latina: la mirada de las nuevas generaciones, RIL editores, pp. 283-304.