Welcome to Dr. Igor Calzada

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....

29 Feb

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In 2007, the Creative Society Summer School finished a trilogy of a project based on three Summer Schools (the three websites expired recently): 1.- The Creative Society 2007: http://www.thecreativesociety.org 2.- The Creative Capital 2006: http://www.elcapitalcreativo.org 3.- The Future of Work 2005: http://www.elfuturodeltrabajo.org...