Dr Calzada will give a conference in the 'Europe-China workshop on innovation and development of mega-city regions' that will take place in Oxford on October 10, 2018....
After Yinchuan Smart City 2016 conference organised by TMForum, Forbes and the CNN International covered some ideas presented by Dr Calzada regarding the concept (Un)Plugging Smart Cities inspired by the journal article published in the Journal of Urban Technology entitled 'Unplugging: Deconstructing the Smart City',...
The Future of Cities: Best Sustainable Practice Summer Course is designed to provide a selected group of talented and advanced undergraduate and postgraduate students from leading Chinese universities who aspire to pursue high-level research or management careers with the exposure to some of the key...
The article presents a broad debate regarding the critical transformations around the smart city mainstream trend by arguing in favour of including mundane technologies in the analysis of the current socio-technical needs for cities....
On 11 and 12 September 2015, Dr Calzada took part in the TMForum InFocus Smart City Conference in Yinchuan, China, as the the delegate from the Oxford Programme in the Future of Cities in the University of Oxford (UK)....
This post summarizes three sequential events that took place in April 2014. Firstly, Future Everything 2014 took place in Manchester on 1st April. Secondly, Prof David Harvey presented his new book on 2nd April at #LSECapitalism and finally, the Skoll World Forum at the Säid...
On 7th November 2013, I gave a conference about technology, politics and democracy. The title of the conference was "Do Social Networks provoke Civilian Transformation?" I pointed out the case of Iceland as the one that I had recently been collecting data about....
Here is the chapter which I contributed within the International Handbook of Social Innovation published by Edward Elgar and coordinated by Frank Moulaert....