igor calzada - Dr Igor Calzada, MBA

01 Sep Co-Direction of the ‘Political Innovation Summer School 2015: Constitutional Change, Self-government, The Right to Decide and Independence’ 9-10 July 2015, St. Sebastian (Basque Country – Spain)

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In July 9-10, the Political Innovation Summer School took place in St. Sebastian - Donostia (Basque Country - Spain). The summer school aims to gather politicians, social movements, academics, entrepreneurs/activists, managers, journalist, officers and so on. The focus will be the territorial debate regarding the...

02 Aug TEDx Montevideo (Uruguay) 2015 Guest Speaker: Bitakora & Fieldwork 12-21 June.

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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...

01 Aug ‘¿Smart State?’ article in El Pais (Spanish newspaper) special edition Urban Beings/Seres Urbanos

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Here is the first article of this collection: 'Smart State?'. The article aims to shed some light on the consequences that urban transformations are causing the the re-scalling processes in nation-states. Indeed, the article argues that Spain as a nation-state should embrace devolution and the right...

25 Jun Comparative Research Project (2012-2015): ‘Benchmarking Future City-Regions: The Basque Country, Catalonia, Scotland, Iceland, Liverpool/Manchester, Oresund, Dublin & Portland’ [www.cityregions.org]

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The research project's website that I have been carrying out since 2012 as a PostDoctoral Research Fellow in the Future of Cities field, with the support of Ikerbasque, Basque Foundation for Science (in collaboration with academic/scientific agents and institutions) and the University of Oxford (UK),...

03 Mar PostPhD summary at Mondragon Coops & University in 2011 (2002-2015)

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Here is a short video recorded at the innovation unit of the University of Mondragon (in Spanish) about my doctoral research and the way I faced my lecturing in English teaching subjects such as: Urban Innovation, Technological Prospective, Networks and Regions and Strategy....

04 Feb ‘Unplugging: Deconstructing the Smart City’ published by the Journal of Urban Technology [Published]

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This paper explores the subtle notion of unplugging to critically analyze the technological determinism of the Smart City. This exploration suggests that being digitally connected should not be perceived as gaining social capital. This article critiques the assumptions of the Smart City and proposes a...

04 Feb ‘Regions between Recentralisation & Independence’ article published in Political Insight (April 2015)

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Dr Calzada has been working in a collaborative publication with Dr Hennig in the crossroads between political devolution processes and the way they can be visualised with data. This collaboration's outcome is the article published in the Political Insight journal by March 2015 based on...

23 Dec Grand Place aldizkarian ‘PostIndependentzia’ liburuaren iruzkina

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This is the Grand Place Journal review about my published 'PostIndependence' book by Translokal in June 2014 . ...

27 Aug Postindependence in Scotland, Catalonia and the Basque Country: City-Regional Small Nations Beyond Nation-States’ (Part III)

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The UK and Spain are not depicted as having the same nation-state DNA with regard to their respective histories and political-cultural traditions. Hence, can we find any remarkable differences between EU nation-states such as the UK and Spain? Indeed, I think there are plenty of...

Welcome to Dr. Igor Calzada

01 Sep Co-Direction of the ‘Political Innovation Summer School 2015: Constitutional Change, Self-government, The Right to Decide and Independence’ 9-10 July 2015, St. Sebastian (Basque Country – Spain)

03 Mar PostPhD summary at Mondragon Coops & University in 2011 (2002-2015)

04 Feb ‘Unplugging: Deconstructing the Smart City’ published by the Journal of Urban Technology [Published]

04 Feb ‘Regions between Recentralisation & Independence’ article published in Political Insight (April 2015)

23 Dec Grand Place aldizkarian ‘PostIndependentzia’ liburuaren iruzkina

Invited talk at VIII World Congress of Basque Communities held by Basque Government, Presidency, External Affairs’ General Secretary in St Sebastian on 20th December 2023

Invited talk at Mondragon University’s UniverCity Symposium around Welsh & Basque Cooperation on 14th December 2023

Published peer-reviewed article in the journal Globalizations (IF 2.5/CiteScore 4.7)

Published peer-reviewed article in the journal Futures (IF 3.0/CiteScore 6.3)

Invited Speaker at Global Innovation Coop Summit, 29 Sept., Montreal (Canada)

Invited Speaker at Workshop: New Tools for the Digital Society, 29 Sept., Philipps Universität Marburg (Germany)

Invited Speaker at Westminster Energy, Environment & Transport Forum, 13th Sept., London (UK)

Invited Speaker at the University of Salamanca (Spain) on ‘Smart City Citizenship: AI from a Transdisciplinary Social Science Perspective’, 11th Sept., Salamanca (Spain)

‘Towards an Algorithmic Nation? Dilemmas Around Synthetic Citizenship in Northern Ireland’ paper delivered at The Synthetic City: Potential, Politics, and Everyday Life Conference, 6-7 Sept. 2023, at Dublin City University (Ireland)

Invited Speaker at Stanford University, The Science of Blockchain Conference 2023 (SBC23)/ Stanford DAO Workshop, 31th August, Palo Alto – California (USA)

Fulbright Scholar-In-Residence via US-UK Fulbright Commission: Successfully culminated

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