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JONATHAN HANKINS
Author, Speaker
Circular Economy for Social Transformation: Multiple Paths to Achieve Circularity – a 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 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
08/11
2024 7mn
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2024 7mn
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Thoughts from the EASST 4s 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 Social Studies of Science (4S). This (the 11th quadrennial joint conference) was hosted by the Athena Institute at Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam (VU). EASST is the European Association for ... Thoughts from the EASST 4s Conference
13/09
2024 7mn
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2024 7mn
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Food and Feed in the Journal of Responsible Innovation
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 found here. In this, the third review of Volume 10 of the Journal of Responsible Innovation (2023), we take a look at four articles that ... Food and Feed in the Journal of Responsible Innovation
26/07
2024 5mn
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2024 5mn
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Responsible Innovation Networks and Local Food Provisioning
On 14 May 2024 I had the pleasure of showing Tiago Sá Gomes and Bárbara Arita from the Lisbon-based NGO Upfarming, and Jean-marc Louvin of ICLEI around the Utrecht city garden Food For Good. Upfarming promotes food literacy, community development, participatory ecology and well-being in cities through implementing holistic urban agriculture projects. Their approach combines ... Responsible Innovation Networks and Local Food Provisioning
06/06
2024 5mn
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2024 5mn
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Wie wil er meedoen? Who wants to participate?
On 11 April 2024 I attended an afternoon discussion about citizen participation at the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences (KNAW), with fellow Bassetti Foundation collaborator and sitting member of the Lombardy Regional Forum for Innovation Cristina Grasseni. The Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences describes itself as the guardian and interpreter of ... Wie wil er meedoen? Who wants to participate?
17/05
2024 5mn
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2024 5mn
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Discussing Responsible Innovation in the Netherlands: a stroll from Lunetten to Utrecht centre
Jonathan Hankins – On Friday 22 March I met up with Marco Innocenti, an Industrial PhD candidate in the Philosophy of Responsible Innovation at Milan University. Our shared interests are much broader than just responsibility in innovation, stretching through art and poiesis to questions surrounding the relationship between aesthetics and functionality, topics that are closely tied ... Discussing Responsible Innovation in the Netherlands: a stroll from Lunetten to Utrecht centre
18/04
2024 6mn
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2024 6mn
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Journal of Responsible Innovation: Institutionalising Responsible Innovation
As regular readers will know, in 2023 the Journal of Responsible Innovation changed format. Volume 10 was not divided into three issues as those previous, but contributions were added throughout the year. The volume featured several thematic collections, the first of which Engagement of Publics was reviewed here. In this post we take a look ... Journal of Responsible Innovation: Institutionalising Responsible Innovation
29/03
2024 5mn
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2024 5mn
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Public Governance and Emerging Technologies: Values, Trust, and Compliance by Design
Between 11 – 12 January I attended the Public Governance and Emerging Technologies: Values, Trust, and Compliance by Design Conference held in Utrecht, Netherlands. The conference was hosted by the Chain Project, a Dutch Research Council (NWO) funded initiative that focuses on blockchain in the network society. From the project website: Governments are developing blockchain ... Public Governance and Emerging Technologies: Values, Trust, and Compliance by Design
20/02
2024 10mn
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2024 10mn
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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
09/02
2024 4mn
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2024 4mn
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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
20/11
2023 3mn
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2023 3mn
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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
31/10
2023 9mn
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2023 9mn
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Engagement of Publics in the JRI
Volume 10 of the Journal of Responsible Innovation remains ‘in progress’ and is being constantly updated. This volume has articles gathered within collections, the largest of which may be of particular interest to Foundation followers as it addressees Engagement of Publics (one of our primary interests). The collection currently (October 2023) features five research articles ... Engagement of Publics in the JRI
18/10
2023 6mn
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2023 6mn
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