11 Feb Invited Keynote Speaker in the Urban Future Global Conference in Vienna (28/02/2018, Austria)
Dr Igor Calzada will give a keynote presentation in the Urban Future Global Conference 2018 in Vienna on 28th February 2018. ...
29 Jan Coordinating the 4th and final Workshop from the Series ‘Bridging European Urban Transformations’ > Rethinking the Urban Commons in European City-Regions in Brussels (12/02/2018, Belgium)
On 12th February 2018, the fourth and final workshop from the series 'Bridging European Urban Transformations' will take place in Brussels entitled: 'Rethinking the Urban Commons in European City-Regions'....
25 Jan Participating as Replicate-H2020-Smart Cities & Communities WP Replication Leader at ‘Replication Workshop: From Follower to Lighthouse City for Smarter Cities’ in Brussels (26/01/18, Belgium)
Dr Calzada is participating as partner representative and WP leader of Replication of Replicate EU project, in the 'Replication Workshop: From Follower to Lighthouse City for Smarter Cities' organised by EU-INEA in Brussels....
17 Jan Speaker on the Board of Directors of the Barcelona City Council on Data-Driven Cities (17/01/2018, Catalonia/Spain)
Dr Calzada, in collaboration with Prof Esteve Almirall from the ESADE Business School in ESADE and Francesca Bria, Chief Technology and Digital Innovation Officer of the Barcelona City Council, presented the conference 'Cities & Data: How the Digital, Big Data & Data Science are Transforming...
11 Jan Invited Instructor/Guest Lecturer on the MIT Metro Lab Initiative in Boston, Massachusetts (11/01/2018, USA)
Dr Calzada will be teaching as an invited invited and guest lecturer on the MIT Metro Lab Initiative in Boston, Massachusetts on 11th January 2018 on 'Political Regionalism and Metropolitan Governance: Devolution, Metropolitanisation, and the Right to Decide'....
31 Dec Directing ‘Smart Rural Communities’ Action Research Intervention project 2017-2018 in Colombia (Latin America) & Mozambique (Africa) organised by the NGO Ayuda En Acción (Aid-in-Action)
This project aims to conduct fieldwork research in two rural and remote communities in post-conflict areas: Colombia (Latin America) and Mozambique (Africa). ...
12 Dec Conducting Replicate H2020-EU Lighthouse Smart City project on City-to-City-Learning Workshop in Lausanne (12/12/2017, Switzerland)
On the last 12th December, the workshop for analysing the multistakeholders' configuration was conducted by Dr Calzada in Lausanne (Switzerland). ...
19 Nov Invited Guest Speaker on ‘Data Devolution in Europe’ in the session ‘Smart Cities & Data’ at MSc in Data, Analytics & Cloud at the ESADE Business School in Barcelona (23/11/2017, Catalonia/Spain)
Dr Calzada elaborated on 'Data Commons and Devolution in Europe: GDPR' in the Speakers session in ESADE Business School by presenting two journal articles:
- Calzada, I. (2017), The Techno-Politics of Data and Smart Devolution in City-Regions: Comparing Glasgow, Bristol, Barcelona, and Bilbao. Systems Journal 5(1): 1-18. Special Issue ‘Smart Cities and Regions as Systems of Innovation’ (ISSN 2079-8954). DOI: 10.3390/systems5010018
- Calzada, I. (2017), Problematizing and Politicizing Smart City-Regions: Is Devolution Smart?, Territorio, Special Issue ‘From Smart City to Smart Region. Meanings, Governance, Policies and Projects’. (ISSN: 1825-8689)
Here is the video summarizing several findings of an ongoing research study:
In this interview Dr Esteve Almirall asked regarding several questions related to the technopolitics of data, the geotechnological disruptive processes in Europe, the Algorithmic Nations, and among other topics.
19 Nov Invited Lecturer on ‘Smart Cities and Transformations for Territories and Cities’ Master Course at the Urban and Territorial Studies School of the Basque Country in Bilbao (23/11/2017, Basque Country/Spain)
Dr Calzada will deliver a Master Course on 'Smart Cities and Transformations for Territories and Cities' in the Urban and Territorial Studies School of the Basque Country in Bilbao....