Cytopia

About Cytopia

Cytopia is a program of thematic cycles of conferences organized at the Cité internationale universitaire de Paris. Each cycle gathers several conferences around a shared theme and creates an interdisciplinary space for reflection, debate, and knowledge production.

The project is not only a hosting platform for innovative conferences: it is also an experiment in new conference program formats. Discussions, articles, conferences, the final book, and the website are designed as media enhanced by the use of artificial intelligence, making it possible to navigate and query the content in a more interactive way.

The format sits at the intersection of an open and experimental campus dynamic and the standards of national and international academic conferences. This intermediate position makes it possible to introduce original tools and presentation formats that depart from more conventional conference models.

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Mission and Goals

Educational and Ethical Pillars

Cytopia is aligned with the founding commitments of the Cité Internationale Universitaire de Paris:

• Access to knowledge: document contemporary technological uses in a rigorous and accessible way
• Solidarity and humanist values: center the analysis on the social, ethical, and human impacts of these technologies
• Action for a sustainable world: propose concrete visions and pathways that address environmental and societal challenges

Scientific and Practical Ambitions

• Bring together researchers, experts, and participants from a wide range of disciplines (technology, social sciences, health, environment, arts, philosophy, …)
• Co-produce high-quality knowledge through interviews, peer-reviewed articles, and public debates
• Make the content durable, multilingual, and accessible (subtitling, inclusive formats, web dissemination)
• Archive and transfer the outputs to sustainable sharing platforms

Format

Engagement Format

The program combines three forms of engagement:

• Discussions in small groups with experts, researchers, and residents
• Articles (co-)written and reviewed, original contributions to collective knowledge
• Conferences public events within each cycle that put the results up for debate

All outputs will be gathered in a final book (proceedings), providing a lasting record of the project and supporting its dissemination to academic and broader publics.

Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Semantic Web

• Each medium is designed to be enriched by AI tools (transcription assistance, content structuring, thematic navigation).
• The site is organized according to semantic web principles to make content querying easier.
• The publications will be progressively structured so they can be easily queried by any compatible LLM (Large Language Model) and AI system.

How to Participate

• Attend: register for the public conferences for free via the Registration page
• Contribute: submit an abstract, an article, or a translation via the Contribute page
• Optional preliminary discussion: if you wish, you can take part in a preparatory discussion to refine the focus of a presentation and/or article
• Independent submissions: you may submit an abstract, an article, and/or a presentation directly, without a preliminary discussion
• Out-of-scope submissions: you may propose an abstract outside the listed domains; we will assess whether the themes can be extended

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Organizational Logic and Continuity

Each conference follows a unified process:

1. Discussions - semi-structured interviews with experts and contributors
2. Articles - co-writing, committee review, publication on the site
3. Conference - public synthesis, interdisciplinary debate, recording

Editorial Governance

Editorial governance is based on an explicit division of responsibilities:

• Speakers and authors are responsible for the substance of their contributions;
• the Cytopia editorial committee validates scientific quality, formal coherence, and alignment with the editorial guidelines;
• the coordination team validates the final publication on the site and its integration into the book.

Audio Data and Transcription Policy

Discussion recordings and transcripts are handled according to a principle of minimization and explicit consent. The content is used only for editorial purposes within Cytopia, shared for validation with the people concerned, and then corrected or deleted at their request. The use of AI tools for transcription or rewriting is governed, transparent, and subject to the participants’ prior agreement.

The project as a whole is consolidated in a final book (proceedings) that is edited, archived, and made available in multilingual and accessible formats, ensuring a lasting memory of the knowledge produced collectively.

The semantic structuring of the site and publications also aims to enable AI-assisted interactions with all project materials.