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Follow the Food: Gouda Cheese
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
2025 4min
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New directions in the anthropology of entrepreneurship: beyond social embeddedness
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
2024 9min
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Datafied Childhoods: Data Practices and Imaginaries in Children’s Lives
Datafied Childhoods: Data Practices and Imaginaries in Children’s Lives from Giovanna Mascheroni and Andra Siibak is dedicated to describing and critiquing practices of datafication that sustain what Shoshana Zuboff calls surveillance capitalism. Datafication is described as both an outcome and an intensifier of deep mediatization: an outcome, as almost all social action and interaction is ... Datafied Childhoods: Data Practices and Imaginaries in Children’s Lives
2024 5min
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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
2024 10min
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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
2023 9min
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Launch of the Critical Infrastructures Lab
What is the Critical Infrastructures Lab? The Critical Infrastructures lab is hosted by the University of Amsterdam. From the website we learn that the lab aims to create space to co-develop alternative infrastructural futures that center people and planet over profit and capital by establishing a community around three infrastructural subtopics (geopolitics, standards, environment), producing ... Launch of the Critical Infrastructures Lab
2023 12min
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La voce dei cittadini in Regione Lombardia
Progetto EU H2020 TRANSFORM – Evento finale locale17 novembre 2022 | Ore 14:30 | Palazzo Pirelli L’incontro – patrocinato dal Garante per la Protezione dei Dati Personali – si svolgerà in presenza a Milano e sarà un’occasione per presentare le attività condotte negli ultimi tre anni in Lombardia da TRANSFORM, il progetto coordinato da Fondazione ... La voce dei cittadini in Regione Lombardia
2022 2min
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Open Scholarship, Responsible Research and Innovation and Anticipatory Governance: the Online Event
This (online) Open Scholarship event will be held on 29 and 30 June 2022, with registration possible by contacting events@khk.rwth-aachen.de. Regular Foundation followers will know many of the people presenting and involved in the organization of the conference, including René von Schomberg, Douglas Robinson, Mario Pansera and Vincent Blok. The following overview has been made ... Open Scholarship, Responsible Research and Innovation and Anticipatory Governance: the Online Event
2022 3min
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Culture digitali-intersezioni: filosofia, arti, media. Il convegno AIUCD.
Il convegno annuale dell’Associazione per l’Informatica Umanistica e la Cultura Digitale (AIUCD), nel 2022 sarà ospitato dal Centro interdipartimentale di ricerca in digital humanities in collaborazione con i corsi di Laurea in Filosofia, DAMS, Beni Culturali e Digital Humanities e si svolgerà a Lecce tra il primo e il 3 giugno. AIUCD è la maggiore ... Culture digitali-intersezioni: filosofia, arti, media. Il convegno AIUCD.
2022 3min
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MEET: Some Thoughts on a Virtual Reality Experience
On 27 April (2022) I visited MEET Digital Centre in Milan for a double bill of Virtual Reality. I first experienced Fabio Gianpietro’s installation The Lift in the centre’s Immersive Room, before attending Matteo Lonardi’s presentation of his Interactive VR story Il Dubbio (Doubt). Both artists were present and the following personal impressions are based ... MEET: Some Thoughts on a Virtual Reality Experience
2022 6min
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TRANSFORM at the 19th European Week of Regions and Cities. A Review.
Bruxelles, 11 – 14 October, 2021. The European Week of Regions and Cities is the biggest annual Brussels-based event dedicated to cohesion policy. It brings together regions and cities from all over Europe, including politicians, administrators, experts and academics in a four-day event that boasts several interesting formats (the opening session was run following a ... TRANSFORM at the 19th European Week of Regions and Cities. A Review.
2021 7min
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MARIE Webinar Week: A Review
After more than 4 years in operation, between 7-9 September 2021 the MARIE Interreg project hosted 3 days of seminars, with networking slots and video drops and some light-hearted fun. Day 1 The topic for the first day was Responsibility and sustainable strategies: Moving Towards S4+. After taking a voluntary quiz and language lesson about ... MARIE Webinar Week: A Review
2021 7min
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