During March 2010 and April 2010 I was involved in three main research dissemination activities around the Youth Exploring Cities research project with the participation of three different educational centres students and teachers. The three activities happened autonomously, but after some years I have...
In 2009, I travelled over the Atlantic from the West of the USA, in order to give some lectures in a Master degree about the importance of creativity and innovation in our societal challenges and in some micro level organizational issues....
On 2nd December 2008, I gave a Faculty Seminar at the Center for Basque Studies, University of Nevada, Reno NV (USA). I introduced the preliminary ideas of my work-in-progress PhD dissertation on the Basque City-Region or Euskal Hiria....
This is the presentation made in St. Sebastian as the first event to announce the city as the Candidate for the Cultural Capital City 2016. Two notions are mixed into: the Creative City and Connected City, and their implementation strategies....
This article addresses a question related to the real matter of the place in which we decide "where we are from". Always an open question with an uncertain personal reply that implies deep personal and collective consequences for the human being....
This article shows the current status of the understanding of Social Innovation as a newly leitmotif in the Basque Country's public policies....
This article tackles a difficult and always slippery term: Identity. Arousing confusion when it refers to certain sociopolitical realities, the author tries to locate it in the Social Innovation paradigm....
Ikea launched an advertisement which they used to spread the idea of the indoors domestic culture: "Come into the independent republic of your HOME". Bearing in mind the massive influence of this advertisement and the impact in the Basque Country, I reflected on the fact...
I was invited by the Alava Chambers of Commerce to deliver a talk in front of a younger audience in order to encourage them to be creative. Actually, what I thought right then was that maybe I had to talk to their parents. The...
