09 May Digital Citizenship International Congress (Donostia-St. Sebastian)
On 9th May, 2012, I gave a conference at the Digital Citizenship Congress in my hometown St. Sebastian. The title of the paper was: Technology, Social Capital & Territory....
27 Apr LSE Cities, London (UK) > (Towards the) Future of City(-Region)?
On 27th April 2012, being invited by Future of Cities Group from the LSE Cities, I participated in a seminar about Smart Strategies in the Developing World. ...
02 Aug Social Innovation? Same Questions & Different Locations > University of Malmö (Sweden)
On 22nd August 2011, just after arriving from a Gothenburg talk and Copenhagen Conference, I gave a Lecture Seminar about "Social Innovation? Same Questions & Different Locations" chaired by Fredrik Björk. I consider this was the first time I started considering introducing Oresund into my...
02 Aug Think Space (Copenhagen-Denmark)
From August the 18th to the 20th in 2011, I attended a highly interesting conference that took place at Prags Boulevard 43 in Copenhagen. The conference addressed issues such as: City Development & Empty Buildings. It gave me a good chance to carry out field...
02 Aug Territory, Urban Innovation & Transformation > University of Gothenburg (Sweden)
Following my research interest in the Oresund City-Region, but also in Sweden and Denmark as two territories where I considered Social Innovation is being experienced in too many areas, in August 2011, I did a field work research trip among these cities: Gothenburg, Copenhagen, Malmö...
17 Mar Mapping the Urban Innovation Ecosystem of San Francisco Bay Area at the University of Mondragon Unibertsitatea-LEINN Social Entrepreneurship Undergraduates team
Trying to connect LEINNers' (LEINN students) projects with San Francisco Bay Area reality....
25 Jan Doctoral Research Fellowship & Award by the Spanish Prince > Premio Proyecto de Investigación Euskal Hiria / Ciudad Vasca
One month after departing to the USA, to start writing my dissertation in March 2008 I received some very important news: My Doctoral research project about the Basque City-Region (Euskal Hiria / Ciudad-Región Vasca) had been awarded. On May 28th, I received the research award...
20 Oct Orlegi / Greeny = City & Social Speleologist
Cities, as Matthew Barney pointed out, are fabric of space made up of water, modernity and urban imagination. Here are some pictures to illustrate this idea....
14 Jun Urban Innovation <> Exploring a City
After sharing these ideas with lecturers & practitioners from some USA & European cities (agents as universities, local institutions, key players and development agencies), I could sum up this Prologue in a Decalogue structure. This Chapter is going to be the Prologue of a book...