Pierre takes us on a journey through a gestural lecture, at the crossroads of the personal and the political, inspired both by his career as a lecturer and researcher in environmental sociology and by his family history. He examines our future in the light of the issue of acceleration: why are we short of time, and what are we chasing after? Can we conceive of acceleration beyond its technological dimension? What are its economic and cultural drivers? How do they feed into one another? How can we make this a collective concern?

Pierre then takes us up to the family attic to trace three generations back, before leaving the lecture theatres on his campus to take us to his field of research: social experimentation.

Blending personal narrative with sociological analysis, ‘Tic - Tac - Tic - Tac…’ combines ‘warm’ knowledge drawn from his own life with ‘cold’ knowledge from books, in an accessible and powerful presentation.

A moment to pause, reflect and laugh – and who knows… catch your breath.

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