This article was requested by Eusko Ikaskuntza, Basque Studies Society, scientific body in the Basque Country. Dr Calzada elaborates on the question that was suggested to him: How can we overcome the divide between humanities and science? The author expresses the importance to invest on...
During the week of 22nd to 29th September 2013, I spent the field work trip collecting data in Reykjavik (Iceland) for my postdoctoral project 'Benchmarking Future City-Regions'. Almost, a year and four months later, here is my scientific ethnographic chronicle that has been published in...
Dr Calzada, in collaboration with Dr Cobo, launches the project entitled #Unplugging: Deconstructing Smart Cities Beyond Hyper-Connected Societies. The project consists of workshops, applied research projects and keynotes presentation about #Unplugging with different stakeholders such as policy-makers, students, researchers, academics, politicians, civil servants, consultants, lecturers...
After an on-line collective writing process with two practitioners, Domenico Di Siena and Adolfo Chautón, from April 2013, in July 2013, we launched a co-authored book titled in the Spanish version: #MacroMesoMicro > Systemic Territory Framework from the perspective of Social Innovation. The English version...
On 21st June, 2013, I took part as a key note speaker giving a lecture about Territorial Benchmarking in the MULTIPLICITY, the next generation of urban voices. Urban applied experiences took part in this event, which was held in the University College London (UCL), Development...
As a former member of the Gipuzkoa Sarean research project funded by the Gipuzkoa Province Council and St Sebastian City Council, a group of academics from the University of Oxford, Mondragon, Deusto and so on, and non-academics, were gathered at the University of Oxford (UK)...
Nearly one year ago, I watched the "AmerikanUak" film at the St. Sebastian International Film Festival. It reminded me of many things: Moments and landscapes in which I lived for a year and a half around the Western USA. For sure, it is a really...
As a consequence of the Donostia-St Sebastian Cultural Capital City 2016 preparation phase, I was invited by the organization to talk openly about the Basque language challenges in some years time. In addition to a large amount of quantitative and sociolinguistic data that many institutions...
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....
