JONATHAN HANKINS
Autore, Speaker

Old Friends at Bart Walhout’s PhD Defence
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
Book Review. Digital Ageism: how it operates and approaches to tackling it
Digital Ageism: How it operates and approaches to tackling it, is publication number 56 in the Routledge Studies in New Media and Cyberculture series. Edited by Andrea Rosales, Mireia Fernández-Ardèvol and Jakob Svensson, the book aims to create awareness about how ageism operates in society, while contributing to a broad discussion about digital ageism. This ... Book Review. Digital Ageism: how it operates and approaches to tackling it
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
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
Rijnvliet, the Edible Neighborhood
On 17 June 2022 I visited the Utrecht suburb (in construction) of Rijnvliet for a guided tour offered as part of the City of Utrecht Architecture Day. This development won the 2021 Innovation in Politics Award and reached the final of the A+Architizer Award 2023 in the Sustainable Landscape / Project Planning category for its ... Rijnvliet, the Edible Neighborhood
Putting Responsible Research and Innovation into Practice. A Multi-stakeholder Approach
Putting Responsible Research and Innovation into Practice. A Multi-stakeholder Approach, edited by Vincent Blok, (Library of Ethics and Applied Philosophy Volume 40, published by Springer, 2022), is a collection that has grown out of the NewHoRRIzon project (2017-2021). This project focused on developing a ‘conceptual and operational basis to fully integrate RRI into European and ... Putting Responsible Research and Innovation into Practice. A Multi-stakeholder Approach
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
Food For Good
On 4 April 2023 Jonathan Hankins and Cristina Grasseni showed a group of students from Nottingham Trent university (UK) round the community garden Food For Good in Utrecht (NL).As regular readers will know, both share an interest in local food production. Cristina is Principal Investigator in Food Citizens?, an ongoing EU funded project that aims ... Food For Good
Journal of Responsible Innovation, Volume 9, Issue 3
This issue contains six research articles, opening with Challenges in the implementation of responsible researchand innovation across Horizon 2020 from Raúl Tabarés, Anne Loeber, Mika Nieminen, Michael J. Bernstein,Erich Griessler, Vincent Blok, Joshua Cohen, Helmut Hönigmayer, Ulrike Wunderle and Elisabeth Frankus. Based on policy document analysis as a series of interviews carried out as part ... Journal of Responsible Innovation, Volume 9, Issue 3
Liberal Innovation In ICT
On Thursday 2 March, the Bassetti Foundation will host an online seminar and book launch (in Italian) with Gabriele Giacomini, author of The Arduous Road to Revolution, Resisting Authoritarian Regimes in the Digital Communication Age (Mimesis International, 2022). In his publication, Giacomini proposes the need for a form of Liberal Innovation within ICT, offering ideas ... Liberal Innovation In ICT
Journal of Responsible Innovation, Volume 9, Issue 2
As regular readers might imagine, Issue 2 opens with Erik Fisher‘s Editorial, in this case Responding to difference in and for RI. Fisher identifies the theme of responding to difference in and for responsible innovation as being salient to this issue, described as ‘a rich selection of scholarly treatments of difference in the framings, strategies, ... Journal of Responsible Innovation, Volume 9, Issue 2
René von Schomberg: Prospects of Institutionalizing the Research Values ‘openness’ and ‘Collaboration’
On November 30th 2022, René von Schomberg delivered an open lecture as part of the Cultures of Research series of the International Centre for Advanced Studies, Kaete Hamburger Kolleg, RWTH Aachen University Cultures of Research series of the International Centre for Advanced Studies, Kaete Hamburger Kolleg, RWTH Aachen University. The focus was on Robert Merton’s ... René von Schomberg: Prospects of Institutionalizing the Research Values ‘openness’ and ‘Collaboration’