Research Lab

"At birth, all projects are stillborn. They must be continually given existence so that they take shape and impose their growing coherence on those who questioned or opposed them." (Latour, 1992: 71-72) I. Introduction — When the First Interview "Fails"… As Expected As was ultimately predictable, the opening of this interview campaign did not begin as planned. An unspoken rule of fieldwork immediately came back to me after the thesis-writing hiatus: fieldwork always starts wi

Independent Researcher en résidence at Samouraï Governance Research Lab Introduction This year, in 2025, Samouraï Coop is launching the Samouraï Governance Research Lab : an embedded research space dedicated to exploring cooperative, decentralized, and commons-oriented organizational models. It is within this context that I am pleased to join the team as a researcher-in-residence. I am Maël Rolland, a socio-economist with a Ph.D. in Economics and Social Sciences from EHESS,

1. Who We Are For eight years, Samouraï Coop has been imagining, experimenting with, studying, and building the foundations of a new generation of social and distributed organizations. By its nature, DNA, and culture, our organization has always seen itself as a collective laboratory —at the crossroads of technology, art, and society. Our deliberate rejection of modern marketing methods and our dissatisfaction with conventional organizational models have led us to forge a di