There was a huge noise outside where I lived, Twin Peaks in San Francisco. I left my home, started walking and ended up in a crowd which was cheering and shouting: It seemed to be the beginning of the Obama era. Nevertheless, was it a...

In this article, as in previous ones, the author explains how we can understand Burning Man as a Dessertic Creative City, bearing in mind recent literature about Florida or Landry among others. At the end of the article, the author asks the reader to reflect on...

This article describes what I found in the 2008 Burning Man edition and how we can explain such an amazing and weird collective behaviour. Words that are explained: #participation #communities #creative At the end of the article, the author suggests playing with words in order to apply and connect North American context with the Basque one. --- Irudikatu ahal izango zenukete honakoa: 48.000 lagun desertu batera joan eta astebetez guztien partehartze interaktiboaren bitartez, auzolanean, hutsetik hasita, hiri sortzaile bat eraikitzea? Ez da desertuko espejismoa. Benetakoa da. Eta zin dagizuet, ezin da deskribapenean, han bizi izandakoa azaldu.

Shortly before the 2008 crisis, the continental European countries and regions such as the Basque Country started facing an incredible paradox: while public policies encouraged youngsters and the unemployed to run an entrepreneurial idea, politicians, civil servants and fixed employees did not favour it...