Presentation of LATTS

Find out more about our laboratory, its structure and its resources. You will find an overview of our unit, our laboratory committee and our key documents: activity reports, a presentation brochure and an organisational chart.

The laboratory

Founded in 1986 to study topics related to cities and their networks, as well as businesses and their production organisation models, LATTS (Laboratoire Techniques Territoires et Sociétés) is a multidisciplinary laboratory in the humanities and social sciences, specialising in cities and territories, public action and labour. Based on the observation that technical worlds are of particular and growing importance in spatial, societal, economic and political transformations, it focuses in particular on understanding how infrastructures and technical systems are shaped by the various social worlds in which they operate and, conversely, how they contribute to transforming them.

Through numerous field studies, the work carried out within the laboratory has three main objectives: to practise rigorous interdisciplinarity, to affirm the principle of solid empirical support for research, and to promote debate and theoretical production.

LATTS is a joint research unit bringing together researchers and research lecturers from the CNRS, the École nationale des ponts et chaussées (ENPC) and Gustave Eiffel University (UGE).