20 Oct Orlegi / Greeny = City & Social Speleologist
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....
14 Jan Society, Creativity, Innovation & Management (Vitoria-Gasteiz, Spain)
In 2009, I travelled over the Atlantic from the West of the USA, in order to give some lectures in a Master degree about the importance of creativity and innovation in our societal challenges and in some micro level organizational issues....
19 Oct West Coast USA Cities > San Francisco, Portland & Seattle
For my doctoral PhD field work research, I carried out some interviews mainly in 3 cities in the West Coast of the USA: San Francisco, Portland and Seattle. The second city attracted my attention and my research once I saw the similarities and the potentialities...
25 Sep DSS2016EU > European Cultural Capital City 2016
This is the presentation made in St. Sebastian as the first event to announce the city as the Candidate for the Cultural Capital City 2016. Two notions are mixed into: the Creative City and Connected City, and their implementation strategies....
25 May (Euskal) HIRItarrok 2.0.
This article aims to describe the basque complex diversity of the Basque citizenship that I titled, Basque Citizenship 2.0. Towards the political changes in the social dynamics, technology is using new technological tools. However, they do not directly transform the civilian fabric automatically....
25 May Política-mente in-correcto
Shortly before the 2008 crisis, the continental European countries and regions such as the Basque Country started facing an incredible paradox: while public policies encouraged youngsters and the unemployed to run an entrepreneurial idea, politicians, civil servants and fixed employees did not favour it...
25 May Creativity, Innovation & Entrepreneurship > Continuous Education Teachers’ Training (Vitoria – Spain)
The goal was to leave the West of the USA in order to get Vitoria-Gasteiz, in the Basque Country (Spain) to teach Continuous Education Teachers gathered for a Course in Creativity, Innovation and Entrepreneurship. The beginning of the work trip started with being stuck in...
25 May Visiting Scholar & Associate Researcher at the Centre for Basque Studies of the University of Nevada, Reno
Igor Calzada, Sociologist and Senior Researcher - Project Director on the Mondragon Co-operative Corporation at Mondragon University - Mik (Basque Country - Spain), is a visiting scholar at the Center during 2008 and 2009. He is conducting research for his PhD dissertation. Igor received a...
24 May Leitmotif (Euskal) Gizarte Berrikuntza
This article shows the current status of the understanding of Social Innovation as a newly leitmotif in the Basque Country's public policies....