JONATHAN HANKINS
Author, Speaker
Dissident Gardens
Het Nieuwe Instituut in Rotterdam is currently hosting an exhibition entitled Dissident Gardens. The exhibition contains multiple installations and events that focus on the struggle between nature and culture, all of which can be experienced until 23 September 2018. More information is available here. The exhibition drew our attention not only because of its relationship ... Dissident Gardens
Glocalism. Beyond Democracy: Innovation As Politics, review of the journal.
The latest edition of the journal Glocalism has just been released, the Bassetti Foundation having participated in the production through its involvement in the editorial process. The issue is titled Beyond Democracy: Innovation As Politics, an argument that as readers will know very much reflects the Foundation’s standpoint. As the editorial points out, at the ... Glocalism. Beyond Democracy: Innovation As Politics, review of the journal.
Journal of Responsible Innovation, Volume 4 Issue 3
Late 2017 saw the publication of the latest issue of the Journal of responsible Innovation. In this post we review the collection of articles. In his editorial Politics of Scientific Reflection, Editor in Chief Erik Fisher addresses the problem of asking scientists to reflect upon a host of normative questions such as the social use ... Journal of Responsible Innovation, Volume 4 Issue 3
Celebrating SEEG, Manchester Metropolitan University
On 25 October 2017 Manchester Metropolitan University (MMU) held the relaunch of SEEG, its Sustainable and Ethical Enterprise Group, hosted by its Business School. SEEG is a hub of expertise in sustainability and innovation, aiming at promoting cross disciplinary collaboration within a broad sustainability agenda while building and supporting a community of like-minded individuals and ... Celebrating SEEG, Manchester Metropolitan University
Journal of Responsible Innovation, Volume 4, Issue 2
In this the second of two posts we review the second issue of Volume 4 of the JRI. This Special Issue on the relationship between Technology Assessment (TA) and Responsible Innovation (RI) is by far the largest published to date, reflecting the journal’s success in the field and the ever growing influence of the concept ... Journal of Responsible Innovation, Volume 4, Issue 2
Journal of Responsible Innovation, Review of Volume 4, part 1
The autumn means the release of issue 2 of Volume 4 of the Taylor and Francis published Journal of Responsible Innovation. In this the first of two posts covering this volume’s publications, we review the articles from issue 1. The journal opens with an editorial by journal Editor in Chief Erik Fisher entitled Responsible innovation ... Journal of Responsible Innovation, Review of Volume 4, part 1
Frankenstein, Annotated for Scientists, Engineers, and Creators of All Kinds
To celebrate the forthcoming 200th anniversary of the publication of Mary Shelley’s story of science, creation and responsibility, David H. Guston, Ed Finn and Jason Scott Robert offer a version ‘annotated for scientists, engineers, and creators of all types’, published through The MIT Press. The publication offers both an editors’preface and introduction (written by Charles ... Frankenstein, Annotated for Scientists, Engineers, and Creators of All Kinds
VIRI Annual Meeting and GET Conference, A Short Report
This year’s VIRI was held in Tempe Arizona between May 15 and 16 to coincide with the Governance of Emerging Technologies Conference the followed in Phoenix. The Foundation was represented by Board Member Ottavia Bassetti and Foreign Correspondent Jonathan Hankins, who attended both events offering readers the following short first hand report on the proceedings ... VIRI Annual Meeting and GET Conference, A Short Report
Journal of Responsible Innovation, Vol 3, Issue 3 Reviewed
Late December 2016 saw the publication of the third and final issue of Volume 3 of the Journal of Responsible Innovation. A review of issue 1 is available here, and issue 2 is reviewed here. In this post we offer an overview of issue 3. The issue opens with an editorial from Editor in Chief ... Journal of Responsible Innovation, Vol 3, Issue 3 Reviewed
Journal of Responsible Innovation, Volume 3, Issue 2 Reviewed
The second issue of Volume 3 of the Journal of Responsible innovation opens with an editorial from Erik Fisher. In Mission impossible? Developing Responsible Innovation in a Global Context, Fisher describes how the issue’s four research papers scrutinize the barriers to responsible innovation, while seeking to extend it into new empirical and theoretical domains. The ... Journal of Responsible Innovation, Volume 3, Issue 2 Reviewed
Journal of Responsible Innovation, Vol 3, Issue 1 Reviewed
Earlier this summer saw the publication of the first issue of Volume 3 of the Journal of Responsible innovation. In this post we review the issue, the first to be published under new Editor In Chief Erik Fisher. In his first editorial in this position, Fisher describes how the journal has grown since its launch ... Journal of Responsible Innovation, Vol 3, Issue 1 Reviewed
2016 INSS Meeting Report
The Integrated Network for Social Sustainability (INSS) 2016 conference took place between 8 and 10 June, and was once again held at multiple sites across the USA and Europe. The London site was hosted at University College London (UCL), with Foreign Correspondent Jonathan Hankins attending on behalf of the Foundation and presenting his work looking ... 2016 INSS Meeting Report