On 26th May, Dr Igor Calzada will be conducting a seminar and giving a paper entitled "City-Regional Policies" at the Basque Institute of Competitiveness, Orkestra- University of Deusto, as an outcome of his postdoctoral project. The seminar is part of the sharegune seminars at Orkestra,...

It was Robert Putnam, the key author observing the social phenomenon that meant the foundation of the concept, Social Capital. His interesting experiment observing the bowling rooms, provided us an interesting perspective from which to compare, connect, or even benchmark the social diverse context and...

In March 2009, I was called for being nominated as the Coordination Director of the Basque Government. I started working as a Director (independent politician) attempting to change the Coordination Direction into the Research Direction. After one year, I decided to quit after leaving an...

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...

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...