One month after departing to the USA, to start writing my dissertation in March 2008 I received some very important news: My Doctoral research project about the Basque City-Region (Euskal Hiria / Ciudad-Región Vasca) had been awarded. On May 28th, I received the research award...
During March 2010 and April 2010 I was involved in three main research dissemination activities around the Youth Exploring Cities research project with the participation of three different educational centres students and teachers. The three activities happened autonomously, but after some years I have...
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...
Cities, as Matthew Barney pointed out, are fabric of space made up of water, modernity and urban imagination. Here are some pictures to illustrate this idea....
Nearly one year ago, I watched the "AmerikanUak" film at the St. Sebastian International Film Festival. It reminded me of many things: Moments and landscapes in which I lived for a year and a half around the Western USA. For sure, it is a really...
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 paper seeks to identify the key drivers of Basque as a minority language in relation to its usage on the Internet. I have founded and worked on the idea that the Basque 2.0 paradigm can very much provide as a methodological and strategic scope...
In the Basque Public TV, EiTB, I was interviewed sharing perceptions and connections (as I always like to call them), about the current diagnosis of the Basque Country. Topics that were mentioned in the interview: Google, participation, politics, governance, identity, globalization, among others....
Maybe Mikel Laboa is not very popular for those that have not grown up being Basques. For those who I share my feelings with, they may understand what I felt when on the 1st December 2008 Mikel Laboa passed away. At that time, I was...
