# Science Is Fun: From the Smart Homes of Tomorrow to the Technologies of the Past
Welcome to the program co-produced by the University of Montpellier andDivergence-FM, which takes you on a tour of the laboratories of the Muse archipelago. For this episode, we invite you to meet Anne-Sophie Cases, professor at theInstitute of Business Administration and the new coordinator of HUT,the Human at Home project,who will talk to us about the future of connected homes.
In the second half of the program, the“In the Engine Room” segment takes you back in time with the Patstec collection. Audrey Theron introduces us to the University of Marseille’s contemporary scientific and technical heritage. Enjoy the show!
Hello and welcome, everyone, to this stop on our scientific cruise. So leave your swimsuits and sunglasses behind—it’s freezing out there, so today we’re staying on shore! It’s time to snuggle up at home with a blanket and some slippers, which works out perfectly since this week we’re talking about housing. Home sweet home—but in a forward-thinking, even slightly futuristic version.
Housing We Don't Want
For just over two years now, Montpellier has been the site of a unique and groundbreaking experiment: testing the connected homes of the future to learn how to better protect ourselves and, above all, how to better safeguard the vast amounts of data we generate in our now-connected daily lives. Each year, two students are selected to live rent-free in this ultra-connected observatory apartment, allowing a multidisciplinary consortium to use all the collected data for research purposes. Far from being a technological experiment, this project—dubbed Human at Home (HUT)—aims to tackle a human challenge. We explain everything with the new HUT coordinator, Anne-Sophie Cases, who is also a professor atthe IAE in Montpellier and a specialist in digital marketing.
In the labs' attic
In the second half of the show, hop into our DeLorean and take a trip back in time with our colleagues from the cultural and scientific heritage departments. Audrey Théron introduces us to the Patstec collection, whose mission is to preserve contemporary scientific and technical heritage. Computers from the 1980s, scales of all kinds, unusual and valuable educational tools, old engines, typewriters, cameras, and so much more… Surprises and wonder guaranteed.
Science is Fun—you’ve got the ticket, let’s go!
Co-produced by: University of Montpellier and Divergence-fm
Hosted by: Lucie Lecherbonnier
Interviewed by: Aline Périault and Lucie Lecherbonnier
Reported by: Aline Périault and Lucie Lecherbonnier
Tune in to the show “A LUM LA SCIENCE” on Divergence FM 93.9
