Dr Igor Calzada has been awarded 2016 Visiting & Associate Research Fellowship at the Brussels Centre for Urban Studies, Vrije Universiteit Brussel. He will be working with two departments: Cosmopolis, Centre for Urban Research & POLI (Political Science)....
‘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...
As a result of the workshop and wrapping up the strategic content in the social innovation field that Fomento San Sebastian has been developing so far, the following publication will be officially launch shortly....
On 29th January 2016, Dr Calzada took part in the '7th Annual Smart Energy UK & Europe 2016 Summit' as moderator of the panel 'European Smart Cities, the Internet of Things (IoT) and the Connected Home' as well as delivering the conference 'Comparing EU Cities...
Dr Calzada was interviewed by the radio Euskalerria irratia from Navarra regarding 'Plurinationality' in Spain and how it could be compared with the understanding of the same idea in the UK, for instance....
This policy report, entitled 'Global Sustainable City-Regions' is the direct outcome of the new MSc Master Programme in Global Sustainable Cities jointly carried about the lecturer, Dr Igor Calzada, MBA and the seven participants/students working comparatively on seven global city-regional case-studies, as follows: Mumbai, Shenzhen,...
As a part of the Urban Transformations research project team funded by the ESRC (Economic & Social Research Council in the UK) based at COMPAS at the University of Oxford, Dr Igor Calzada, MBA will be in charge of the European branch by networking and...
This article was requested by Eusko Ikaskuntza, Basque Studies Society, scientific body in the Basque Country. Dr Calzada elaborates on the question that was suggested to him: How can we overcome the divide between humanities and science? The author expresses the importance to invest on...
