If we must choose a theoretical model to explain the key issues that have sustained the full restoration of the Santa Maria Cathedral in Vitoria-Gasteiz, we would without doubt opt for mode 2 knowledge production – a model introduced in the nineties by authors such as M. Gibbons and M. Nowotny, among others – and we would also choose the STS perspectives which, from the seventies onwards, are putting forward a global vision of contextualised scientific activity as a social process. The newest features of these approaches derive  from a notion of science and technology in which, apart from the customary features of an epistemic and technical nature, other types of value of a moral, religious, political and  economic nature are highlighted. We shall select some of the main features of  these proposals to scientific research in order to briefly illustrate them within the praxis of the Vitoria experience.

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