VIRI, Fourth International Meeting

The fourth international meeting of the Virtual Institute for Responsible Innovation will take place on Thursday 4th and Friday 5th October in Szeged, Hungary, with Foreign Correspondent Jonathan Hankins present on behalf of the Bassetti Foundation. The meeting will be hosted by the First Hungarian Responsible Innovation Association (EMFIE), a non profit organization whose aim ... VIRI, Fourth International Meeting

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Responsibility driven design for the future self-driving society

Responsibility driven design for the future self-driving society è un white paper curato da Fabio Besti e Francesco Samorè, con contributi di Angela Simone e Jonathan Hankins, che analizza l’avanzata delle tecnologie ‘driverless’ e si interroga su come questo fenomeno tecnologico impatterà la società del futuro. Il lavoro è il frutto della collaborazione di Fondazione ... Responsibility driven design for the future self-driving society

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6th Annual Winter School on Responsible Innovation and Social Studies of Emerging Technologies

The National Nanotechnology Coordinated Infrastructure is hosting their Annual Winter School on Responsible Innovation and Social Studies of Emerging Technologies at Saguaro Lake Ranch in Mesa, Arizona. The organizers are offering scholarships for advanced graduate students or recent PhDs and will cover travel from Phoenix Arizona and all fees, board and lodging. The Winter School ... 6th Annual Winter School on Responsible Innovation and Social Studies of Emerging Technologies

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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

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Interdisciplinary PhD Grant: Impacts of novel technologies on urban and domestic life.

PhD in DESIGN – 33rd cycle Research Field: IMPACTS OF NOVEL TECHNOLOGIES ON URBAN AND DOMESTIC LIFE: ETHICAL AND SOCIAL ISSUES IN ARCHITECTURE AND DESIGN PROCESSES The PhD research will be carried out in collaboration with research groups of the PhD programme in “ARCHITECTURAL, URBAN AND INTERIOR DESIGN”. See here for further information. This research ... Interdisciplinary PhD Grant: Impacts of novel technologies on urban and domestic life.

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Fifth Annual Conference on Governance of Emerging Technologies: Law, Policy and Ethics and Annual VIRI meeting

The Fifth Annual Conference on Governance of Emerging Technologies:Law, Policy and Ethics will be held at the new Beus Center for Law & Society in Phoenix, AZ between May 17-19, 2017, with Foundation Foreign Correspondent jonny Hankins in attendance to report on proceedings. The conference consists of both plenary and session presentations and discussions on ... Fifth Annual Conference on Governance of Emerging Technologies: Law, Policy and Ethics and Annual VIRI meeting

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EST-Frame Final Conference Report

On December 2 the EST-Frame Final Conference took place in Brussels Belgium. The conference was entitled “Assessing emerging technologies – Towards an integrated approach“. The program can be found here. In his short welcome speech and introduction, Thomas Reiss explained that assessments tools are needed because of questions about ethics. He argued that assessments may ... EST-Frame Final Conference Report

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Assessing emerging technologies – Towards an integrated approach

On December 2nd 2014, in Brussels, Belgium, the EST-Frame project will hold its final Conference. The EST Frame Project the EST-Frame project is an FP7 Science and Society Collaborative Project (funded the European Union’s Research and Innovation Program) that has ‘identified needs for more integrated assessment of emerging science and technologies’. The Assessing emerging technologies ... Assessing emerging technologies – Towards an integrated approach

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A Matter of Design: Designing for Reproductive and Regenerative Ethics

(continued from previous post on “A Matter of Design”) Fondazione Giannino Bassetti contributed to the organization of the 5th STS Italia Conference “A Matter of Design. Making Society through Science & Technology“, that was held in Milan, Italy, June 12 through 14, 2014, in collaboration with the Politecnico di Milano Doctoral School in Design. We ... A Matter of Design: Designing for Reproductive and Regenerative Ethics

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A Matter of Design: Our Common Future

STS Italia – The Italian Society for Social Studies of Science and Technology was founded in 2005 to build up an Italian network of researchers oriented to study Science and Technology starting from the social dynamics which characterize and interweave science and technology themselves. Nowadays the field of Science and Technology Studies (STS) represents a ... A Matter of Design: Our Common Future

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