Giovanni De Grandis

Giovanni De Grandis

I am a researcher at NTNU in Trondheim, where my main job is to act as coordinator for the AFINO project. A philosopher by training, in the last decade I have worked in very applied and interdisciplinary projects dealing with innovation and new technologies. 

Working with users, scientists, industry and policy makers has really transformed the way I look at the important ethical and political issues surrounding new technologies, innovation and policy making. I believe that talking and engaging with people and using our imagination to understand their different perspectives ―their cognitive and value frames― is fundamental to see where the tensions and conflicts, the misunderstandings and misalignments, the asymmetries of power between different stakeholders are. The challenge is then to envision ways of making different stakeholders converge, to conceive of fair distributions of advantages and burdens. To me, the exciting challenge is the work of imagining goals that different people can share and commit to, and to help build collaborations for realising these shared goals.  

Working in AFINO gives me the opportunity of working for an innovation system that is not fuelled only by the profit motive and a blind faith in technology, but that attempts to put innovation at the service of a more sustainable and just society.  

News and blogposts by Giovanni

News and blogposts by Giovanni


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News from AFINO feed | 28 Apr 2023 - 20:47:44
Hackathon is a newcomer in AFINO context. Read how the first implementation went. The first AFINO Hackathon was held 18th...

News from AFINO feed | 26 Sep 2022 - 14:20:42
The first edition of the Nordic Food Forum turned out to be a great occasion for AFINO to present the...

News from AFINO feed | 23 May 2022 - 12:06:10
Without canapés and champagne, but with self-reflective questions, AFINO’s first half of their journey has been officially marked and put...

News from AFINO feed | 12 May 2022 - 16:04:12
The leaders of AFINO work packages and of the AFINO affiliated projects will meet in Bergen on the 19th of...

News from AFINO feed | 20 Jan 2022 - 13:24:53
Updated program for the workshop in Bergen! The workshop on public engagement organized by AFINO in partnership with the Danish...

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