What do bicycles and artificial intelligence have in common? They discriminate. They were designed to do so, but few oppose it. Most drop their eyes and shoulders and … pedal, or just sit behind the desk. In any case, they look on, as models like Chat GPT choose from which point of view we should ... What we really need is the “Technology of the Revolution”

Marta Abbà

NOvation. Critical Studies of Innovation As is tradition at the Bassetti Foundation, in this article we propose a little ‘light’ reading for the summer break. The latest edition of NOvation is a special issue that opens with a position paper by René von Schomberg entitled Towards a New Ethos of Science or a Reform of ... NOvation. A Position Paper from René von Schomberg

Redazione FGB

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

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!

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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

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

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

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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

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

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

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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

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