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Food and Feed in the Journal of Responsible Innovation

As regular readers will know, the Bassetti Foundation has long been raising questions around relationships between food, its procurement choices and responsible innovation thinking, an overview of which can be found here. In this, the third review of Volume 10 of the Journal of Responsible Innovation (2023), we take a look at four articles that ... Food and Feed in the Journal of Responsible Innovation

Jonathan Hankins

26/07
2024 5min
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Longevity: Now Available in Cans!

Longevity: Now Available in Cans! A Performance Lecture Approach to Addressing Longevity Issues from A Responsible Innovation Perspective is the latest research article from Bassetti Foundation collaborators Jonathan and Angelo Hankins. The publication appears in Glocalism: Journal of Culture, Politics and innovation, and is the result of a call for papers focusing on longevity and ... Longevity: Now Available in Cans!

Redazione FGB

18/06
2024 4min
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Responsible Innovation Networks and Local Food Provisioning

On 14 May 2024 I had the pleasure of showing Tiago Sá Gomes and Bárbara Arita from the Lisbon-based NGO Upfarming, and Jean-marc Louvin of ICLEI around the Utrecht city garden Food For Good. Upfarming promotes food literacy, community development, participatory ecology and well-being in cities through implementing holistic urban agriculture projects. Their approach combines ... Responsible Innovation Networks and Local Food Provisioning

Jonathan Hankins

06/06
2024 5min
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Wie wil er meedoen? Who wants to participate?

On 11 April 2024 I attended an afternoon discussion about citizen participation at the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences (KNAW), with fellow Bassetti Foundation collaborator and sitting member of the Lombardy Regional Forum for Innovation Cristina Grasseni. The Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences describes itself as the guardian and interpreter of ... Wie wil er meedoen? Who wants to participate?

Jonathan Hankins

17/05
2024 5min
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Datafied Childhoods: Data Practices and Imaginaries in Children’s Lives

Datafied Childhoods: Data Practices and Imaginaries in Children’s Lives from Giovanna Mascheroni and Andra Siibak is dedicated to describing and critiquing practices of datafication that sustain what Shoshana Zuboff calls surveillance capitalism. Datafication is described as both an outcome and an intensifier of deep mediatization: an outcome, as almost all social action and interaction is ... Datafied Childhoods: Data Practices and Imaginaries in Children’s Lives

Redazione FGB

08/05
2024 5min
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Discussing Responsible Innovation in the Netherlands: a stroll from Lunetten to Utrecht centre

Jonathan Hankins – On Friday 22 March I met up with Marco Innocenti, an Industrial PhD candidate in the Philosophy of Responsible Innovation at Milan University. Our shared interests are much broader than just responsibility in innovation, stretching through art and poiesis to questions surrounding the relationship between aesthetics and functionality, topics that are closely tied ... Discussing Responsible Innovation in the Netherlands: a stroll from Lunetten to Utrecht centre

Jonathan Hankins
Marco Innocenti

18/04
2024 6min
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Journal of Responsible Innovation: Institutionalising Responsible Innovation

As regular readers will know, in 2023 the Journal of Responsible Innovation changed format. Volume 10 was not divided into three issues as those previous, but contributions were added throughout the year. The volume featured several thematic collections, the first of which Engagement of Publics was reviewed here. In this post we take a look ... Journal of Responsible Innovation: Institutionalising Responsible Innovation

Jonathan Hankins

29/03
2024 5min
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Glocalism. Ten Years of Culture, Politics and Innovation

To celebrate the ten-year anniversary of Glocalism: Journal of Culture, Politics and Innovation, Piero Bassetti (President of the Bassetti Foundation and Globus and Locus) and Davide Cadeddu (Editor in Chief of Glocalism) have edited an open access collection of articles for publication through Milan University Press. In the editorial that precedes this collection, Bassetti, Cadeddu ... Glocalism. Ten Years of Culture, Politics and Innovation

Redazione FGB

13/03
2024 5min
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Public Governance and Emerging Technologies: Values, Trust, and Compliance by Design

Between 11 – 12 January I attended the Public Governance and Emerging Technologies: Values, Trust, and Compliance by Design Conference held in Utrecht, Netherlands. The conference was hosted by the Chain Project, a Dutch Research Council (NWO) funded initiative that focuses on blockchain in the network society. From the project website: Governments are developing blockchain ... Public Governance and Emerging Technologies: Values, Trust, and Compliance by Design

Jonathan Hankins

20/02
2024 10min
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Old Friends at Bart Walhout’s PhD Defence

Crossing Paths On 24 November 2023 I had the great pleasure of attending Bart Walhout’s PhD defence at the University of Twente. Bart has been interested in responsible innovation for many years, his PhD representing more than 15 years engagement in the field. Long-time friend of the Foundation Professor Sally Randles was a member of ... Old Friends at Bart Walhout’s PhD Defence

Jonathan Hankins

09/02
2024 4min
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Looking back on 2023

2023 was our busiest and most exciting year to date. It saw the launch of the new Fondazione Bassetti website, the development of a host of new and long-established collaborations, the culmination of our participation in one major EU funded project and the start of a new and exciting research and innovation support project, and ... Looking back on 2023

Redazione FGB

19/01
2024 7min
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Collaboration with the International School Utrecht

In November the Bassetti Foundation renewed its collaboration with the International School Utrecht, as Jonathan Hankins delivered a series of lessons for the Diploma Program Theory of Knowledge course and within the school’s English language hub. The lessons aimed to offer a different perspective on ethics.  Rather than being thought of as an abstract idea, ... Collaboration with the International School Utrecht

Redazione FGB

13/12
2023 5min
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