Chiara Bassetti

Chiara Bassetti is Associate Professor at the Department of Sociology and Social Research of the University of Trento. An ethnographer and ethnomethodologist, often working in interdisciplinary teams, her main research focus rests on social interaction, cultural phenomena and collaborative practices, particularly towards change. She explored everyday collaboration in a number of contexts, including grassroots initiatives for socio-economic innovation, performing arts and artistic creation, the workplace and complex socio-technical systems. She served in the Core Group of the COST Action “From sharing to Caring: Examining Socio-Technical Aspects of the Collaborative Economy” (2017-2021) and she is the PI of the Trento Unit of the Marie Curie Doctoral Network "Reworlding". Some recent publications include “Processes of Processes of Proliferation: Impact Beyond Scaling in Sharing and Collaborative Economies” (Proceedings of the ACM on Human-Computer Interaction, 6, 41, 1-22), Becoming a platform in Europe. On the governance of the collaborative economy (Now publishers, 2021), and "Reworlding: Participatory Design Capabilities to Tackle Socio-Environmental Challenges" (PDC 2022 Vol. 2, ACM).