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

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Art in responsible innovation. A conversation with Mireia Bes Garcia and Oliver Langdon

This edition of Art in Responsible Innovation features Mireia Bes Garcia from Bristol University and Oliver Langdon of Kilter Theatre in conversation with Jonathan Hankins. The University of Bristol Public Engagement team and Kilter Theatre have collaborated several times over the last decade, working on immersive theatre projects on quantum/virtual reality and synthetic biology. In ... Art in responsible innovation. A conversation with Mireia Bes Garcia and Oliver Langdon

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Looking back to our 2022

2022 was one of our busiest and most productive years to date, and one in which we celebrated the successful completion of two large projects. This post offers just a snapshot of events and themes that we carry forward into 2023. Projects2022 saw the final conferences and publication of all findings and deliverables of both ... Looking back to our 2022

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Art in responsible innovation. A conversation with Maurizio Montalti

In this, the second post in the Art in Responsible Innovation series, Jonathan Hankins is joined in conversation by Maurizio Montalti, Founder of Officina Corpuscoli and pioneer in the study and development of mycelium-based technologies for the design and production of natural biomaterials and products. Maurizio Montalti is a designer, scientist and artist whose research ... Art in responsible innovation. A conversation with Maurizio Montalti

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Art in responsible innovation. A conversation with Maurizio Montalti

Title: Art in responsible innovation. A conversation with Maurizio Montalti. Date: 2021 06 28 Time: 17:43 min. Place: Online, Utrecht. Language: English. url Vimeo: https://vimeo.com/607543034 Post: Art in Responsible Innovation. A conversation with Maurizio Montalti. Podcast: Art in responsible innovation. A conversation with Maurizio Montalti. Contents: Interview by Jonathan Hankins, Foundation’s Foreign Scientific Correspondent, with ... Art in responsible innovation. A conversation with Maurizio Montalti

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Art in Responsible Innovation. A conversation with Rodolfo and Lija Groenewoud van Vliet.

Title: Art in Responsible Innovation. A conversation with Rodolfo and Lija Groenewoud van Vliet. Date: 2020 11 16 Time: 18:34 min. Place: Online, Utrecht Language: English. url Vimeo: https://vimeo.com/531223939 Post: Art in Responsible Innovation. Podcast: Art in Responsible Innovation. Contents: Interview by Jonathan Hankins – Foundation’s Foreign Scientific Correspondent – with Rodolfo and Lija Groenewoud ... Art in Responsible Innovation. A conversation with Rodolfo and Lija Groenewoud van Vliet.

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Art in Responsible Innovation. A conversation with Rodolfo and Lija Groenewoud van Vliet

In this post, Rodolfo and Lija Groenewoud van Vliet discuss the motivations and ideas behind their In4Art organization, in video call conversation with Foreign Correspondent Jonathan Hankins. In4Art was founded in 2015 by Rodolfo and Lija Groenewoud van Vliet with the mission to increase the impact of innovative art in society and economy, in the ... Art in Responsible Innovation. A conversation with Rodolfo and Lija Groenewoud van Vliet

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Civil Society in Research and Innovation: What’s next?

Representatives of the Bassetti Foundation recently participated in the Civil Society in Research and Innovation: What’s next? Event at the European Economic and Social Committee in Brussels. The event was held on 28 January and promoted by the European Economic and Social Committee (EESC) and the CONSIDER project (Civil society organisations in designing research governance), ... Civil Society in Research and Innovation: What’s next?

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Dan Sperber. New ways to describe and structure the societies

by Angela Simone. As if it were recently invented, the word interdisciplinarity can ever more regularly be heard in discussions both outside and within academia. After years of pushing towards an ever more refined specialization where the order of the day was to find space in a niche of knowledge that one could call either ... Dan Sperber. New ways to describe and structure the societies

Which responsibility? – part 1- …This call for comments continues in the next entry…

The ambitious goal of this call is that of initiating an exploration of possible ways of reflecting on the concepts of responsibility and innovation, without losing sight of the social, political and economic contexts that grant a concrete and pragmatic scope to the mission of the Bassetti Foundation. When we mention the responsibility of innovation, ... Which responsibility? – part 1- …This call for comments continues in the next entry…