Responsible Innovation Lectures at Leiden University

performance by Jonathan Hankins

On Thursday 5th and Monday 9th of December (2024), Bassetti Foundation correspondent Jonathan Hankins brought discussion about responsible innovation and sociotechnical imaginaries to Leiden University Institute of Cultural Anthropology and ... Responsible Innovation Lectures at Leiden University

Follow the Food: The Power of Place – Apricots between Heritage and the Market in Central Asia

Albicocche in Tagikistan

Future Food presents: Follow the Food 2nd Seminar: The Power of Place – Apricots between Heritage and the Market in Central Asia On Monday, November 18th, environmental historian Flora Roberts ... Follow the Food: The Power of Place – Apricots between Heritage and the Market in Central Asia

Circular Economy for Social Transformation: Multiple Paths to Achieve Circularity – a book review

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 ... Circular Economy for Social Transformation: Multiple Paths to Achieve Circularity – a book review

Future Food: Cristina Grasseni Kicks Off the Follow the Food Seminar Series

Follow the Food meeting

Thanks to an Incubator grant, Utrecht University (NL) is hosting the Follow the Food seminar series. The project is led by Martijn Huysmans (Utrecht School of Economics) and aims to ... Future Food: Cristina Grasseni Kicks Off the Follow the Food Seminar Series

Performance Lecture at the International School Utrecht

Performance Lecture at the International School Utrecht

The Bassetti Foundation recently continued its long-term collaboration with the International School Utrecht as on 23 October Jonathan Hankins delivered a Performance Lecture about sociotechnical imaginaries during a Diploma Years ... Performance Lecture at the International School Utrecht

New directions in the anthropology of entrepreneurship: beyond social embeddedness

spirale

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 ... New directions in the anthropology of entrepreneurship: beyond social embeddedness

Magazine and Artificial Intelligence. A Report from Mag to Mag

Mag to Mag festival dei magazine

The second edition of Mag to Mag, the independent magazine festival organised by Frab’s Magazines & More, a portal specialised in the sale of niche magazines, took place on 14 ... Magazine and Artificial Intelligence. A Report from Mag to Mag

The more the metaverse advances, the more our human side emerges

Evento in Craft presso il Museo del Metaverso

Dialogue with Marco Centorrino and Josephine Condemi What if the arrival of the metaverse helped us all (or almost all of us) to become more human? This ‘counter-current’ question lingers ... The more the metaverse advances, the more our human side emerges

Thoughts from the EASST 4s Conference

European Association for the Study of Science and Technology conference

Conference Theme: Making and doing transformations In July I attended the quadrennial joint meeting of the European Association for the Study of Science and Technology (EASST) and the Society for ... Thoughts from the EASST 4s Conference

What we really need is the “Technology of the Revolution”

immagine della copertina del libro di Diletta Huyskes

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, ... What we really need is the “Technology of the Revolution”

NOvation. A Position Paper from René von Schomberg

cover documento NOvation

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 ... NOvation. A Position Paper from René von Schomberg

Food and Feed in the Journal of Responsible Innovation

JRI review

As regular readers will know, the Bassetti Foundation has long been raising questions around relationships between food, its procurement choices and responsible innovation thinking, an overview of which can be ... Food and Feed in the Journal of Responsible Innovation