On October 5, 2018, an strategic workshop took place in Bilbao, to define the Smart Municipalities' networked, evolution-guided and bottom-up strategy for the 252 municipalities encompassing the city-region....
Invited by the new prospective initiative launched by the University of the Basque Country, EHUGunea, I gave a conference on 3rd May 2013 about the future of the Basque Country through a scenario planning technique. The outcome of the conference was titled: Balance & Imbalance...
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....
After presenting the book at the Kursaal Palace in St. Sebastian on 3rd November 2011, there was a sequence of dissemination activities to introduce the book publicly. To sum up, it was presented in November in: El Correo Español, Innobasque, Eutokia, Bizkaie, IdeaLab and Pintxos...
After 6 years of working beween 2005-2011, interviewing and doing some international (mainly USA (Portland, Oregon) & Ireland, but also Denmark, Sweden, Japan, Germany) participative observation field work research about Cities & Territories, Igor Calzada Ph.D. presented the BOOK that was published in a full...
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 was written in 2005 and aimed to apply to the so-called "Creative Class" concept suggested by Richard Florida to the Basque Regional Government's Culture Strategic Planning. Generally speaking, when we refer to a new setting of the cultural planning, it seems that modern and traditional culture clash. The authors highlight the dynamic and complex nature of the Strategic Territorial Planning arguing that Communities and Entrepreneurship should be taken into account for this macro strategic design. The article was published in 2005 in the Revista Vasca de Economía del Gobierno Vasco, Ekonomiaz and in Euskonews and was presented also as a paper with the same title in the Congress of the Basque Studies Society. --- Part I Part II
