Welcome to the IMBROGLIOS of knowledge, institutions, actants and things

The imbroglios website was created in the context of an Interuniversity Attraction Pole Research Project (funded by the Belgian Science Policy) The loyalties of knowledge.

You will find here a summary of this project

 Summary of the project
 R?sum? du projet
 Sammenvatting of het onderzoeksproject

If you want to know more about this project, read the 2001 candidacy presentation :
 Description of the project

or read the successive reports:
 2002
 2003
 2004
 Overview Document

This project has not been extended due to a negative European expert evaluation. Since the criteria of this evaluation are highly significant, we document here the story of the disqualification of our work, starting from the preliminary report of the experts (December 2005)
 Preliminary Evaluation Report

Then our first reaction, addressed to the experts
 comments on the preliminary report

The experts’ reply
 reply to the comments

The experts’ final report
 final P5-16. doc

Our report about this report
 Memorandum about the ex-post evaluation...

From the outset, it has been our intention to try and create a new research landscape wherein what counts for other researchers in different fields is taken seriously, which implies learning how to stimulate those others’ appetite for what you are doing.

The IMBROGLIOS-website was part of this challenge as it meant to activate a practice of constructing mutually interesting questions and knowledge.

Despite the end the project as such, the challenge remains vivid. This is why we have decided to publish online part of the work and discussions of IMBROGLIOS with the firm intention to pursue the experiment and to open it up to the concerns and interests of wider circles.

You are invited to comment the discussions and texts, to disagree, to argue and to complicate the work of the researchers. Please contact us to participate to this website.