#Indyref is gathering a lot of attention in the UK but also overseas. Devolution processes shake the concept of union, nation-states and territories by forcing the emergence of new global actors, such as small nations. Dr Igor Calzada is at the moment following closely by...
As a summary of the on-going comparative case studies between the Basque Country City-Region and the Oresund City-Region, myself and Fredrik Björk will disseminate it in a paper titled: Cross Border City-Regions Beyond Nation-States: Basque & Oresund Comparative Cases. ...
This post summarizes three sequential events that took place in April 2014. Firstly, Future Everything 2014 took place in Manchester on 1st April. Secondly, Prof David Harvey presented his new book on 2nd April at #LSECapitalism and finally, the Skoll World Forum at the Säid...
This post may be the most relevant post of this site https://www.igorcalzada.com, due to what is explained in the doctoral and postdoctoral research sequence. Furthermore, the whole PostDoctoral Research project "The Future of City-Regions - Comparative Territorial Benchmarking" can be found in the website http://www.cityregions.org...
On 29th January, 2014, I gave a Seminar at St Antony's College - European Studies Centre, presenting an Article that was recently published with the same title....
Here is the project that I have been invited to participate in and contribute to Kolding, Denmark: Design Culture Kolding. In the context of the Design City Kolding, a Roundtable Discussion Event about "Contemporary Design Culture and the Design Museum: Challenges and Opportunities" that will...
After an on-line collective writing process with two practitioners, Domenico Di Siena and Adolfo Chautón, from April 2013, in July 2013, we launched a co-authored book titled in the Spanish version: #MacroMesoMicro > Systemic Territory Framework from the perspective of Social Innovation. The English version...
On 7th November 2013, I gave a conference about technology, politics and democracy. The title of the conference was "Do Social Networks provoke Civilian Transformation?" I pointed out the case of Iceland as the one that I had recently been collecting data about....
The way that we observe an #urban environment means we come across #graffiti which could be considered to be an unconscious kind of exploration, whereas walking randomly we can #hunt #graffiti as a real way to #tag #cities. We will not forget the #cities that...
