Dr Igor Calzada, MBA, has been participating (in representation of the Urban Transformations ESRC porfolio co-ordinated by the University of Oxford), in the Habitat III Thematic Meeting on the definition of the New Urban Agenda in Barcelona (#H3Barcelona) on 4th and 5th April 2016....
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...
Here is the project that I have been invited to participate in and contribute to Kolding, Denmark: Design Culture Kolding. In the context of the Design City Kolding, a Roundtable Discussion Event about "Contemporary Design Culture and the Design Museum: Challenges and Opportunities" that will...
Between March and November 2012, I was the Scientific Director organizing the Basque City-Region 2012 Congress in collaboration with the Spatial Planning of the Basque Government. All the content was stored in two platforms: one in Basque & Spanish and the other one in English....
Trying to connect LEINNers' (LEINN students) projects with San Francisco Bay Area reality....
After sharing these ideas with lecturers & practitioners from some USA & European cities (agents as universities, local institutions, key players and development agencies), I could sum up this Prologue in a Decalogue structure. This Chapter is going to be the Prologue of a book...
In March 2010, I traveled to Denmark (DK) to lecture, collaborate and facilitate the workshop "Exploring a City: Urban Innovation & 2.0 Technologies" with the awesome Kaos Pilot 15th Team, just a week before departing to Shangai (China)....
This article aims to explain what I saw in Google, Palo Alto in San Francisco. My summary was that Google was simply an massive iceberg where the we could notice just the 20% on the surface, but actually not easily observed the rest of the...
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...
