• 28-31st January 2013.
• 1-6th March 2013.
  

• 16-22nd August 2011
• 8-12th February 2013

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At this lecture, he will focus his presentation on the CityRegion concept and its real challenges nowadays.

His interest to coming to Malmö quite often (he was in 2011) is due to the open collaboration with the University of Malmö in order to work in the Comparative Territorial Benchmarking project comparing Basque Country and Oresund as City-Regions.

The Social Innovation notion is quite popular right now. And even more Social Innovation always comes together with Social Entrepreneurship. We are going to ask what is Social Innovation and then we will try to link this with Social Entrepreneurship.

This lecture is going to be based on the recent chapter about “the Mondragon case” of Dr. Calzada in the International Handbook of Social Innovation by Edward Elgar coordinated by Frank Moulaert.

Mondragon case has been really researched in the last two decades as one of the well-known cooperative worldwide experience in the Basque Country, Spain. However, the globalization and the Postcrisis era are changing the dynamics and nature of the Mondragon reality.

Dr. Calzada will highlight 3 key factors from the Social Innovation:

(1) University & Coops interactions in the construction of Communitarian Social Capital: Link between Entrepeneurs & Companies (Bees&Trees Alliances)

Case1: LEINN.

(2) Territory as a source of PostGrowth/PostCrisis Innovation.

Case2: Orona IDEO Innovation City.

(3) Local&Global Communities: GloKal Communities.

Case3: Kunshan (China).

Recently The Guardian has citated his chapter in a broder article about an event that took place in Hub Islington in London:

Leo esto #TransformacionSocial #AlucinoAColores #Paradox twitter.com/icalzada/statu…

— icalzada (@icalzada) March 5, 2013

• "Me parece mejor formularlo de esta manera. El asunto es que somos una sociedad que quiere organizarse políticamente, y venimos de una historia de impugnación de esa posibilidad. No solo los vascos como tales han carecido de derechos, la mayoría de la gente está mal representada políticamente. En nuestro país, somos gente diversa, vascos, españoles, franceses, rifeños, de cualquier origen y de cualquier particularidad. Se trata de construir un espacio de comunicación, eso es una nación, un espacio cultural en que la gente se entienda más fácilmente, se respete entre sí y se organice políticamente."

• "Por otra parte, como vascos de nación en ese sentido de autodefinición, pienso que mientras no tengamos independencia, debemos organizarnos y actuar como si la tuviéramos, como si formáramos parte de alguna manera de esa república imaginaria. Convirtiendo la resistencia a los dos estados que se nos han impuesto en un proyecto alternativo, porque, seguramente, esos estados no nos van a conceder nada y tendremos que ir consiguiendo las cosas por la vía de los hechos. Los derechos vendrán después, con circunstancias favorables."

• Eskerrik asko aurtengo #EuskalHiria 2012 Kongresuko, erakunde antolatzaile (Eusko Jaurlaritza) & laguntzaile-lankide (Fundación Metrópoli & Paisaje Transversal), hizlari (Javier Echeverría, Jordi Borja, Fernando de Terán, Xabier Garmendia, Guillermo Dorronsoro, José Luis Azkarate, Florent Marcellesi, Ula Iruretagoiena, Pedro Puig, Santi Eraso, Igor Otxoa, Ander Gurrutxaga, Andoni Aldekoa, Iranzu Sáinz de Murieta, Larraitz Gonzalez eta Igor Ahedo) eta Euskaldunako partehartzaile off-line & #EuskalHiria ko "3er entorno" CyberEuskadi-ko online guztiei baita ere, Oxford (UK)etik.

• Tomaré(mos) unos días para reposar, reflexionar (y descansar también:) con tiempo y calma todo lo ocurrido, escuchado, compartido y sentido. Volveremos en unos días a http://www.euskalhiria.org

• I(we) will be back at http://www.basquecity.org in some days. Thanks specially to the University of Oxford Future of Cities, InSIS, COMPAS, Oxford Martin School: Professors, colleagues and employees. Also thanks to Rob Hopkins from UK and Fredrik Björk & Ulf Kyrling from Oresund, SE&DK.

Aurrera #Euskal Hiria = Basque #City-Region

Kings Of Convenience – Free Fallin' (Live)

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Future potential Think Tank Euskal Hiria & Basque City City-Region EGovernance Platform for the Dinamization & Design of the Territorial Strategy.#EH2012: "Think Tank Euskal Hiria & Basque City". Igor Calzada (@icalzada).

Nere(Mi) ponentzia/My talk in a briefing short-structured-presentation:

• More información.
• Inscripción.

• "Does the #CityRegion constitute a new departure in urbanization? If so, what the key elements of that departure? The realities of the urban in the 21st century are increasingly complex and polychromatic. The rise of global networks enabled by supranational administrations, both governmental and corporate,  strongly influences and structures the management of urban life. How we conceive the #CityRegion has intellectual and practical consequences. First, in helping us grasp rapidly changing realities; and second in facilitating the flow of resouces, ideas and learning to enhance the quality of life of citizens".

• " #CityRegion concept has emerged in Europe primarily in the context of a move away from the verticality of welfare state organization towards a variety of institutional sites in which different grouping of state and non-state actors come together." (Brenner, Gualini, Keating, McLeod)

We are going to have the case study of #Oresund = Malmö SE + Copenhagen DK.

Linkear con Conectividad Física e Racionalización de Infraestructuras:

La contribución de de la UE mediante el presupuesto TEN-T fue de 192,7 millones de €. Los sobrecostes de los accesos daneses al Puente fueron del 80%, los de los suecos del 16% y los de la infraestructura costa a costa del 26%.

• Soy Cámara. El programa del CCCB - Europa ciudad

12th of November in London at the HUB Islington from 7-9.30 pm. 
 

Dr. Igor Calzada
Scientific Director of the Basque City-region 2012 Congress. PostDoctoral Research Fellow at the University of Oxford, InSIS & COMPAS, Future of Cities Programme & Ikerbasque, Basque Science Foundation. Oxford Martin School Fellow. Lecturer at the Mondragon University.

Nacho Arrizabalaga
Co-Founder and Managing Director of Flexi-Talent Asturias, a community of professional freelancers delivering flexible on-site work through local hubs.

Brittany Koteles
Consultant for Ashoka U and researcher in social entrepreneurship in Spain, in collaboration with ESADE Business School's Institute for Social Innovation.

Guy Julier
Author in Spanish design, directed  the international ‘Design Activism and Social Change’ conference in 2011, Barcelona.

Ginés Pastor

Experienced in key support groups for social entrepreneurship like the Guardian Social Enterprise Network and Unltd, he is now aiding developments in Spain.

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First of all, I would like to thank @HubIslington & @2pueblo (CR) for their kind invitation to open the session tomorrow.

I should confess I feel confused talking about two realities that are really hard to put together: #Spain & #SocialInnovation.
Anyway I will develop and open the session talking about 3 main challenges in order to tackle the issue adddressed by the the organizers:

A.- Productive Model. #Civitas
B.- Socio-Political Model. #Polis
C.- Territorial Model. #Urbs

Once that we could talk broadly and freely about those aspects we will start saying we are applying Social Innovation to the diverse & multiple spanish contexts. Shall we start descentralizing mindsets in order to think/design/implement  #Regional #Ecosystems ? Could we really think that being aware of and capture the urban context of the Future of Cities is going to be the crucial task among this big challenge?

In addition to this, I will suggest to introduce different micro-level Socially Innovative projects in the Basque City-Region ( @Euskal_Hiria) context carried out by Social Entrepreneurs/Activists:

a.- Hub Donostia.

PROIEKTUEN AZOKA 03 from HUB Donostia on Vimeo.