#social innovation
Place-based Circular Society Innovations: Year 2 Meeting
On 6th and 7th October, 2026, the Place-based Circular Society Innovations project headed by Manchester Metropolitan University (MMU) held its Year 2 meeting in Utrecht. Bassetti Foundation Foreign Correspondent Jonathan Hankins attended the meeting in his role as Advisory Board member and in this post Sarah Walker, Sally Randles and Jonathan offer their thoughts. The ... Place-based Circular Society Innovations: Year 2 Meeting
2026 5mn
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A society for all ages
The Bassetti Foundation approaches longevity not simply as a biomedical ambition to extend human life, but as a broad social, political, ethical and technological challenge. Our central concern is what happens when increased life expectancy interacts with innovation, demographic change and unequal access to resources and influence. This perspective shifts attention from simply “curing ageing” ... A society for all ages
2026 3mn
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CULTIVATE: Food Sharing Calculator and Report
On Friday 10 April, Foundation contributors Jonathan Hankins and Cristina Grasseni participated in a workshop to test the CULTIVATE Food Sharing Calculator. The event also saw the launch of the Costs and Benefits of Food Sharing in Utrecht publication, the third in a series that includes similar reports about Barcelona and Milan. Cultivate is a ... CULTIVATE: Food Sharing Calculator and Report
2026 5mn
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Workshop: Leveraging Geographical Indications for Sustainability and Fairness
On Wednesday 12 November 2025, the Leveraging Geographical Indications for Sustainability and Fairness Workshop was held at Utrecht University and online. The workshop launched the Follow the Food Signature Project which critically examines if and how GIs can be used as tools for promoting fairness and sustainability in the global food system. In his introduction ... Workshop: Leveraging Geographical Indications for Sustainability and Fairness
2025 15mn
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Circular Neighbourhoods: Heston in the Loop
On 23–24 October I attended the End-of-Year 1 Meeting of the Place Based Circular Society Innovations project. The event included project partners, the Advisory Board, and members of the broader Knowledge Action Network, bringing a very interesting and open-minded group together. I participated as a member of the Advisory board, wearing both my hat as responsible ... Circular Neighbourhoods: Heston in the Loop
2025 6mn
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Arizona State University Annual Winter School on Emerging Technologies
The Winter School provides junior scholars and scientists an introduction to and practical experience with methods and theory for better understanding the social dimensions of emerging technologies. The 2026 Winter School will be focused on the broad notion of impact with an aim to explore ways for participants to increase and diversify the impact of ... Arizona State University Annual Winter School on Emerging Technologies
2025 3mn
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Studying with AI. A student’s testimony
Some thoughts from Angelo Hankins, Bassetti Foundation collaborator and first year student in Global Sustainability Sciences at Utrecht University While the emergence of artificial intelligence (AI) is transforming many facets of modern society, I find its impact on education—particularly on students— uniquely profound. As a high school student during the early stages of AI ... Studying with AI. A student’s testimony
2025 5mn
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Circular Economy for Social Transformation: Multiple Paths to Achieve Circularity – a book review
The e-book Circular Economy for Social Transformation: Multiple Paths to Achieve Circularity is one of the outcomes of A Just Transition to the Circular Economy (JUST2CE). This European Union Horizon 2020 funded project concluded this summer (2024), its aim being to understand the implications of the transition to a circular economy on the environment, economy ... Circular Economy for Social Transformation: Multiple Paths to Achieve Circularity – a book review
2024 7mn
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New directions in the anthropology of entrepreneurship: beyond social embeddedness
Long-time Bassetti Foundation collaborator Cristina Grasseni recently presented a paper at the European Association of Social Anthropology (EASA) conference in Barcelona, held between 18-26 July. The conference theme was ‘Doing and Undoing with Anthropology’, with Grasseni participating in a full-day panel entitled New directions in the anthropology of entrepreneurship: beyond social embeddedness convened by Joost ... New directions in the anthropology of entrepreneurship: beyond social embeddedness
2024 9mn
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What we really need is the “Technology of the Revolution”
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”
2024 6mn
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NOvation. A Position Paper from René von Schomberg
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
2024 6mn
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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!
2024 4mn
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