Watch again the conference "Cerveau, comportements et actions : comprendre ce qui nous guide?"

Lecture by Saadi Lahlou, Director of the Paris IAS and Professor at the London School of Economics, organized at the Institute as part of “Brain, culture and society” program coordinated by the Society for Neurosciences

Panellists:

Gretty Mirdal, member of the Royal Danish Academy of Sciences and Letters, Professor Emeritus at the University of Copenhagen, co-directors of the Brain, Culture and Society programme at the Paris IAS (programme currently inactive).

Etienne Koechlin, neuroscientist, Director of Research at INSERM and Director of the Cognitive and Computational Neuroscience Laboratory at ENS-PSL, and

Presentation

Why do we do what we do? How do societies manage to channel our behaviour so effectively and predictably?

In this lecture, Professor Saadi Lahlou reveals the powerful mechanisms by which our societies guide our daily actions – and how we can use these same levers to promote more sustainable behaviour.

Through installation theory, the result of twenty years of video research in real-world conditions, discover how three forces converge to guide our every move: the physical environment around us, the social rules that regulate us, and our embodied skills. From road traffic to everyday actions, including the massive transformations observed during Covid-19, we will see how these installations "structure our lives from birth to death.

More than just a diagnosis, this presentation offers a practical analytical framework for understanding and transforming behaviour.

A conference accessible to all, to understand the invisible drivers of our actions and discover how to rethink our collective practices.