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 ... Home

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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 ... Home

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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 ... Home

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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 ... Home

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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 after meeting experts in the human aspect of the metaverse and its impact on society: Marco Centorrino, Professor in the Sociology of Communication (who has ... Home

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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 ... Home

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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, or just sit behind the desk. In any case, they look on, as models like Chat GPT choose from which point of view we should ... Home

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