Robotics. A new science
On 20th February an important conference on robotics took place in Rome entitled "Robotics: A New Science". The event was conceived as a seminar whose objective was that of discussing the contemporary development of robotics within the framework of recent scientific and technological developments in the informatics, telecommunication, software and electronics sectors. In this article Fiorella Operto explains the principal points of discussion. - More
Posted by Redazione FGB on May 15, 2008 9:36 AM. Permalink
See also: Robot: il corpo e l'anima, a dialogue with Fiorella Operto by Borrello and Correale Santacroce, and Dal Golem all'intelligenza artificiale
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The Politics of Science and the re-definition of democracy (part 2)
The fourth Lecture of the Fondazione Giannino Bassetti will feature prof. Sheila Jasanoff, professor of Science and Technology Studies at the Kennedy School of Government of Harvard University, one of the authors of the report to the EU "Taking European Knowledge Society Seriously". Mariachiara Tallacchini offers here an introduction to Jasanoff's STS approach. (Part 2) - More
Posted by Redazione FGB on April 28, 2008 12:02 PM. Permalink
See also: Science and Governance: The report for the European Commission presented at the Bassetti Foundation
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The Politics of Science and the re-definition of democracy (part 1)
The fourth Lecture of the Fondazione Giannino Bassetti will feature prof. Sheila Jasanoff, professor of Science and Technology Studies at the Kennedy School of Government of Harvard University, one of the authors of the report to the EU "Taking European Knowledge Society Seriously". Mariachiara Tallacchini offers here an introduction to Jasanoff's STS approach. - More
Posted by Redazione FGB on April 21, 2008 10:07 AM. Permalink
See also: Science and Governance: The report for the European Commission presented at the Bassetti Foundation
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Governance and participation in nanotechnology
This is the first of a number of postings that Jonny Hankins will devote to nanotechnologies, their novelty in technoscientific society and their impact on our thinking of responsible innovation. Here, a first look at informative websites and newsletters on nanotechnologies, societal impact and decision making. - More
Posted by Jonny Hankins on April 7, 2008 10:14 AM. Permalink
See also: interviews with Christine Peterson of the Foresight Institute on Nanotechnology
and with Lawrence Gasman, cofounder of NanoMarkets (by Jeff Ubois
Categories Responsibility and Science
Building a bridge between science and society
By Roberta Gabbatore. On Thursday 14th February 2008 in the splendid setting of the ex monastery of Saint Augustine (now part of the University) in Bergamo’s upper town the conference “Building a bridge between science and society. Looking for the foundations of the communication of science” took place. - More
Posted by Redazione FGB on February 27, 2008 3:56 PM. Permalink
See also: Science and Governance: the EU report presented at FGB. Interview with Mariachiara Tallacchini and the page in Events dei materiali su convegno e seminario
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A seminar on governance and science at the Bassetti Foundation in Milan
On Friday 15th February 2008, at the premises of the Bassetti Foundation in Milan, Piero Bassetti opened the seminar on Science and Governance introducing Brian Wynne, chairman of the work group that produced the report “Taking European Knowledge Society Seriously” for the European Commission, and Mariachiara Tallacchini, a member of the group and translator of the report into Italian. - More
Posted by Redazione FGB on February 21, 2008 10:18 AM. Permalink
See also: dialogo on line con Fiorella Operto (in Italian)
Science and Governance: the provocation of responsibility.
Conversation with Mariachiara Tallacchini. "Within the cultural horizons of the European Commission the STS point of view was missing; no report had ever used the science and technology studies perspective. Nicole Dewandre who was in charge of Science and Governance within the Directorate General for Research, was given the mandate to commission an expert group coordinated by Brian Wynne, which could be the European and international expression of this approach. [...] Our thesis is that the public fear of science is not produced by a deficit of knowledge, but by the doubts that the citizens feel in relation to the institutions themselves..." - More
Posted by Valentina Porcellana on February 9, 2008 2:41 PM. Permalink
See also: article by Valentina Porcellana
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Science and Governance: the EU report on Science and Governance presented at FGB
The driving force of the science on the economic and social development compelled politics and laws to set rules for the technoscience and its innumerable deployments. The "Science and Governance Taking European Knowledge Society Seriously" Report, committed by the European Commission, meet the exigence of reflecting in a responsible way about the links between science and society. The Italian transalation will be presented at the Giannino Bassetti Foundation headquarters by the science sociologist Brian Wynne and by the jurist Mariachiara Tallacchini. - More
Posted by Valentina Porcellana on February 1, 2008 10:40 AM. Permalink
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New version of our website
Dear readers or visitors, at the end of August we launched a new version of our website featuring several changes to our graphics and site layout. You will surely notice that the menu items have changed... - More
Posted by Tommaso Correale Santacroce on September 21, 2007 7:51 PM. Permalink
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Political responsibility in innovation: a challenge for the new Statute of the Region of Lombardy
Political responsibility in innovation is a challenge for the new Statute of the Region of Lombardy. The debate on this issue that the Giannino Bassetti Foundation has been promoting for some time now has led to important political developments: the issue of deliberative democracy lies at the heart of political interest today... - More
Posted by Redazione FGB on July 31, 2007 6:36 PM. Permalink
See also: Innovazione tecnico scientifica e democrazia e Partecipazione Pubblica e Governance dell'Innovazione
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Innovation and Politics
We publish "Innovation and politics", the second lesson of Piero Bassetti for the Cross-sectional Course of Epistemology of the scientific and technical search of the Politecnico of Milan. A lesson gave in the February of 2006, that will published from Mondadori. This publication follows the previous lesson "La responsabilità nell'innovazione", that you can find in this site. - More
Posted by Redazione FGB on May 31, 2007 12:18 PM. Permalink
Categories Publication
See also: La responsabilità nell'innovazione
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2007 FGB Grants
Once again this year FGB is making 5 grants available to doctoral candidates and post-docs interested in attending the conference entitled Exercices de métaphysique empirique (autour des travaux de Bruno Latour). The grants are intended to cover the cost of staying at Cerisy-la-Salle for the duration of the conference (June 23 to 30, 2007). - More
Posted by Redazione FGB on April 13, 2007 7:31 AM. Permalink
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Is responsible innovation participatory, and if so, how?
Is responsible innovation participatory, and if so, how? Interviewed on his decade-long work on the history of science and its relevance to issues such as secrecy, scientist's responsibility, public understanding... - More
Posted by Redazione FGB on March 10, 2007 2:36 PM. Permalink
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The Bassetti Foundation at the Centre Culturel International of Cerisy-La -Salle
The Centre Culturel International de Cerisy-la-Salle is an international conference and research centre, animated by a cultural association which dates back to 1952, the Association des Amis de Pontigny-Cerisy la... - More
Posted by Redazione FGB on March 7, 2007 9:58 AM. Permalink
See also: Bruno Latour in FGB
Our Web Site is Changing Layout and Structure
The Giannino Bassetti Foundation is working through various channels, to promote the subject of Responsible Innovation. The evolution of Foundation's work is reflected in an evolution of its graphic image and editorial structure. - More
Posted by Redazione FGB on November 26, 2006 11:07 AM. Permalink
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See also: Argomenti (previous series)
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