Welcome to Dr. Igor Calzada

13 Oct

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Igor Calzada, with European colleagues, has recently co-edited the volume Multidisciplinary Movements in AI and Generative AI: Shaping Technology for Society, Business, and Education, published by Edward Elgar. The book, also discussed in ElgarBlog, brings together contributions that bridge artificial intelligence, economics, governance, and education...

31 Oct

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Prof Dr Igor Calzada is deeply grateful to the SGH Warsaw School of Economics (#SGH) for inviting him as #InvitedProfessor next week. This opportunity to engage with such a distinguished academic community is both an honor and a privilege. During his stay at SGH, he...

01 Mar

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[embed]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r_gTTSNA3QA[/embed] He lectures on two modules: (i) Global Cities: Sustainability and Society; (ii) Public Policy, Governance and Strategic Change in Cities. The lectureship focuses on the case-study co-production with students in two main fields: (i) Transformative Smart Cities and (ii) Changing Social Innovation.   Here is the outcome of the FIRST edition, 2015/16: Ref.: Calzada I. (Ed) [MacDonald, K., Qiu, N., Dynes, C., Murray, G., Watson-Puskas, N., McAdam, G., & Barrett, F.] (2016), Global Sustainable City-Regions: Mumbai, Shenzhen, Reykjavik, Portland, Budapest, Glasgow, & Rotterdam, Zumaia: Translokal – Academic Entrepreneurship for Policy Making – Publishing, in collaboration with the City Protocol Society and the Institute for Future Cities, University of Strathclyde. ISBN (e-book): 978-84-942752-7-2. DOI: 10.13140/RG.2.1.3053.1609.

14 Oct

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During the week of 22nd to 29th September 2013, I spent the field work trip collecting data in Reykjavik (Iceland) for my postdoctoral project 'Benchmarking Future City-Regions'. Almost, a year and four months later, here is my scientific ethnographic chronicle that has been published in...

16 May

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In this article, I reflected on the similarities that lie between speed of the knowledge society and the need to escape from it as well. I mixed Eastwood's Alcatraz movie, Beck's Risk Society with my permanent concern with the challenges ahead for the Basque Society....