There was a huge noise outside where I lived, Twin Peaks in San Francisco. I left my home, started walking and ended up in a crowd which was cheering and shouting: It seemed to be the beginning of the Obama era. Nevertheless, was it a...
This presentation was given from a Hotel in Boise (Idaho). The initial idea of the activity was suggested by the Machine-Tool Institute that every year organizes an event where Basque language avant-garde research is treated. The title of my presentation was Basque 2.0 and this...
For my doctoral PhD field work research, I carried out some interviews mainly in 3 cities in the West Coast of the USA: San Francisco, Portland and Seattle. The second city attracted my attention and my research once I saw the similarities and the potentialities...
I participated virtually from the USA, in the Basque Public Radio Station talking about the financial crisis....
I took part virtually in the UrbanLabs event about techno-science and social innovation that was held in the Citilab Cornellá (Catalonia)....
This is the presentation made in St. Sebastian as the first event to announce the city as the Candidate for the Cultural Capital City 2016. Two notions are mixed into: the Creative City and Connected City, and their implementation strategies....
In this article, after having reflected on Burning Man and started living in Twin Peaks neighbourhood in San Francisco, the author connects the Creative City mindset (referencing authors such as Jacobs, Florida and Landry) to the newly promoted European Capital Cultural City process that his...
In this article, as in previous ones, the author explains how we can understand Burning Man as a Dessertic Creative City, bearing in mind recent literature about Florida or Landry among others. At the end of the article, the author asks the reader to reflect on...
