04 Nov Invited speaker in ‘The Future of Cities’ Conference in Irala neighbourhood in Bilbao (9/112017, Basque Country/Spain)
Dr Calzada will deliver a conference in one of the historic neighbourhoods in Bilbao: Irala....
26 Jan Radio podcast in Euskalerria Irratia from Oxford to Pamplona-Iruñea in Navarra (Spain)
Dr Calzada was interviewed by the radio Euskalerria irratia from Navarra regarding 'Plurinationality' in Spain and how it could be compared with the understanding of the same idea in the UK, for instance....
02 Aug TEDx Montevideo (Uruguay) 2015 Guest Speaker: Bitakora & Fieldwork 12-21 June.
Kindly invited by TEDx Montevideo, Dr Igor Calzada was a guest speaker in the 2015 edition on 15 June. Here is the presentation. The video will be forthcoming soon. Here too the brief visual ethnography and bitakora from the fieldwork carried out by 15th June...
05 Oct #Unplugging > Deconstructing Smart Cities Beyond Hyper-Connected Societies Project: Workshop, Applied Research & Keynote Presentations.
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...
19 Oct West Coast USA Cities > San Francisco, Portland & Seattle
For my doctoral PhD field work research, I carried out some interviews mainly in 3 cities in the West Coast of the USA: San Francisco, Portland and Seattle. The second city attracted my attention and my research once I saw the similarities and the potentialities...
25 May Política-mente in-correcto
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...
08 Oct Networking for Networking > Coffee Break 2007 in Cáceres – Spain
Have you ever been in an event talking and networking with 136 cups of coffee? Surprisingly, this event took place in Caceres (Extremadura, Spain) being one of the most innovative networking events that I have ever attended. 136 cups of coffee representing each person that...
16 Jun Direction, Coordination & Author of the Summer School 2007 Creative Capital // Escuela de Verano Capital Creativo 2007: Construyendo la Sociedad Creativa Actual
After three years Summer School trilogy, starting with The Future of Work in 2005; continuing with The Creative Capital in 2006; and ending with the Creative Society in 2007; I gathered the field work information to start writing my dissertation while comparing with Dublin (in...
14 Jun Coordinator & Author of the DVD Creative Capital + Director of the Creative Society 2007 Summer School // Escuela de Verano Capital Creativo 2007
On 7th June 2007, Andoni Aduriz (Mugaritz), Joxean Muñoz (TBK), Imanol Agote (DFG) and myself, presented the DVD Creative Society 2006 as the result of the 2006 Summer School about Creative Capital. At this event, we presented the new edition for 2007 that will be...