In October of 2024, I was invited to join the Advisory Board and attend the  launch of the UK Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC) funded project Place-based circular society innovations (CSI) in Manchester, UK. I was excited to join, not only because long term friend of the Bassetti Foundation Sally Randles is part of ... Place Based Circular Society Innovations

Jonathan Hankins

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

Follow the Food Seminar 3. Geographical Indications and Coffee in Indonesia: Social and Ecological Implications of Premium Coffee Production in Aceh The third Follow the Food seminar was held on 11 December at the Utrecht University Future Food Conference. This year’s conference theme was food democracy, and raised several questions that are closely tied to ... Follow the Food: Social and Ecological Implications of Premium Coffee Production in Aceh

Nina Litsios

IN MEMORY OF ANDREINA BASSETTI Through her profound civic spirit, Andreina Rocca Bassetti gained esteem and affection from all of those who had the pleasure to meet her. The work of the Bassetti Foundation (which she co-founded with her brother Piero Bassetti) is both a reflection and result of her dedication, and we endeavor to ... Looking Back on 2024

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On 28 November I attended the Utrecht University Pathways to Sustainability Conference 2024 in the beautiful surroundings of the Tivoli Vredenburg in Utrecht. The title of the conference was At Home?, and the conference focused upon a premise: A just and sustainable future can only be reached with a feeling of HOME for all. All ... Pathways to Sustainability

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 Development Sociology, as part of its Social Theories undergraduate course. Here his report: In December of 2024 I was given the opportunity to discuss responsible ... Responsible Innovation Lectures at Leiden University

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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 and rural sociologist Irna Hofman explored the topic of apricots in Tajikistan during the second Follow the Food seminar. The seminar, hosted by Future Food ... Follow the Food: The Power of Place – Apricots between Heritage and the Market in Central Asia

Nina Litsios

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

Jonathan Hankins

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 trace the workings of the global food system by following several products with a so-called Geographical Indication (GI). In Follow the Cheese, the first of ... Future Food: Cristina Grasseni Kicks Off the Follow the Food Seminar Series

Nina Litsios

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 TOK (theory of Knowledge) lesson. The Foundation and the school have been collaborating since 2018, when topics under discussion were ‘the driverless society’ and developments ... Performance Lecture at the International School Utrecht

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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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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 and 15 September 2024. For two days, in the exhibition halls of LAMPO — born from a redevelopment project of Scalo Farini in Milan — ... Magazine and Artificial Intelligence. A Report from Mag to Mag

Dario Baldini