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Follow the Food: Gouda Cheese

Follow the Food’s fourth and final seminar took place on January 22nd bringing us full circle and back to cheese, as Martijn Huysmans (Utrecht School of Economics) presented the case of Gouda to an audience from a diverse array of fields, including social impact, political ecology, geography, and responsible innovation. Huysmans began by highlighting the ... Follow the Food: Gouda Cheese

Nina Litsios

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

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Essenziale. Un report dal Wired Next Festival 2024

Dal 14 al 16 giugno 2024 si è svolto Wired Next Fest, il festival annuale di WIRED. Tema di questa edizione, Essenziale, ovvero capire come le nuove tecnologie, soprattutto gli sviluppi nel campo dell’Intelligenza Artificiale, possano creare un valore reale per gli individui. Senza cedere al sensazionalismo, gran parte degli interventi del festival si sono ... Essenziale. Un report dal Wired Next Festival 2024

Angelo Hankins

Infanzie datificate – un incontro con Giovanna Mascheroni

Il 13 giugno Fondazione Bassetti ha ospitato il seminario Datafied Childhoods: Data Practices and Imaginaries in Children’s Lives con Giovanna Mascheroni, docente di Sociologia dei processi culturali e comunicativi all’Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore di Milano. Il tema delle “infanzie datificate” rientra nel ciclo più ampio dedicato al rapporto tra innovazione e generazioni, e Longevità ... Infanzie datificate – un incontro con Giovanna Mascheroni

Manuela Mimosa Ravasio

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

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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

Report from the Annual Meeting of the Socio-gerontechnology Network

On 28th and 29th of September I attended the 2023 Annual Meeting of the Socio-gerontechnology Network in Utrecht, Netherlands. This network brings together scholars from across social science, humanities and design disciplines who are interested in critical studies of ageing and technology, creating a new academic field that we might describe as a meeting point ... Report from the Annual Meeting of the Socio-gerontechnology Network

Jonathan Hankins

Launch of the Critical Infrastructures Lab

What is the Critical Infrastructures Lab? The Critical Infrastructures lab is hosted by the University of Amsterdam. From the website we learn that the lab aims to create space to co-develop alternative infrastructural futures that center people and planet over profit and capital by establishing a community around three infrastructural subtopics (geopolitics, standards, environment), producing ... Launch of the Critical Infrastructures Lab

Jonathan Hankins

TRANSFORM in Lombardia: i risultati del percorso

Il metodo testato in Lombardia è un possibile strumento per coinvolgere i cittadini nel policy making. L’evento finale del percorso locale di TRANSFORM è stata un’importante occasione di confronto tra gli attori che si occupano di governance di ricerca e innovazione, in particolare in ambito regionale. Grazie all’intervento dei partner e degli speaker, si è ... TRANSFORM in Lombardia: i risultati del percorso

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La voce dei cittadini in Regione Lombardia

Progetto EU H2020 TRANSFORM – Evento finale locale17 novembre 2022 | Ore 14:30 | Palazzo Pirelli L’incontro – patrocinato dal Garante per la Protezione dei Dati Personali – si svolgerà in presenza a Milano e sarà un’occasione per presentare le attività condotte negli ultimi tre anni in Lombardia da TRANSFORM, il progetto coordinato da Fondazione ... La voce dei cittadini in Regione Lombardia

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Open Scholarship, Responsible Research and Innovation and Anticipatory Governance: the Online Event

This (online) Open Scholarship event will be held on 29 and 30 June 2022, with registration possible by contacting events@khk.rwth-aachen.de. Regular Foundation followers will know many of the people presenting and involved in the organization of the conference, including René von Schomberg, Douglas Robinson, Mario Pansera and Vincent Blok. The following overview has been made ... Open Scholarship, Responsible Research and Innovation and Anticipatory Governance: the Online Event

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