Developing models is not a purely scientific, detached exercise: during the seminar participants discuss the politics of computer model simulations.

A group debate hosted by Neves Marques and Silva on the politics of computer model simulations. What is the lineage on which the modelling of global system has developed since the mid 20th century? How does human behavior and historical contingency fit into the numerics and statistical probabilities contained in large-scale models? And what makes certain modeling practices democratic or rather the opposite?