This project aims to conduct fieldwork research in two rural and remote communities in post-conflict areas: Colombia (Latin America) and Mozambique (Africa). ...
Between 4th and 7th June 2017, the RSA Annual Conference will be held in Dublin (Ireland). Dr Calzada will be chairing the Special Session SS21 Beyond Smart & Data-Driven City-Regions? Rethinking Stakeholder-Helixes Strategies. In this session, he will present the following paper: Calzada, I. (2017), Transforming...
Glad to announce that despite the Brexit outcome, Dr Calzada, as a member of the Urban Transformations team at the University of Oxford led by Prof Michael Keith, will be co-ordinating 'Briding European Urban Transformations ESRC Workshop Series' in Brussels from 2016 to 2017, in...
Dr Calzada and Dr Cobo (both from the Future of Cities/Urban Transformations and Oxford Internet Institute respectively at the University of Oxford), will conduct a workshop entitled 'Education for (Social) Innovation: Transformation in (Smart) Cities' in St. Sebastián on 25th October 2016 as an action...
Dr Igor Calzada opened with a keynote speaker the inaugural MACI Innovations Future City event, which took place in Roxburghe Hotel, in support of Rowan Alba a homelessness charity based in Edinburgh. In the event, in addition to the speakers coming from MACI Innovations and...
Dr Igor Calzada, MBA, has been participating (in representation of the Urban Transformations ESRC porfolio co-ordinated by the University of Oxford), in the Habitat III Thematic Meeting on the definition of the New Urban Agenda in Barcelona (#H3Barcelona) on 4th and 5th April 2016....
Here is the chapter entitled 'About Independence (with independence)' that will contribute to a new edition on 'The Right to Decide, Power and Sovereignty' by Sorzain publishing....
‘Smart city’ has already become a ‘fetish’ term to simplify complex urban debates in an uneven techno-deterministically-driven hyper-connected society. This paper compares strategically and ethnographically four specific city-region cases located in two European nation-states: Bristol and Glasgow in the UK, and Bilbao and Barcelona in...
REPLICATE, “Renaissance of PLaces with Innovative Citizenship And TEchnology”, is funded by a 29M grant from Horizon 2020, the main EU program fostering research and innovation actions. This project belongs to the “Lighthouse” call (Smart Cities and Communities solutions integrating energy, transport, ICT sectors...
