The Oxford Future of Cities Programme organized the Flexible City International Symposium from 23rd to 25th October. I took part presenting a paper with my work-in-progress PostDoctoral Research project about The Future of City-Regions <> Comparative Territorial Benchmarking/Connections, specifically presenting the Basque & Oresund Connection...
As a summary of the on-going comparative case studies between the Basque Country City-Region and the Oresund City-Region, myself and Fredrik Björk will disseminate it in a paper titled: Cross Border City-Regions Beyond Nation-States: Basque & Oresund Comparative Cases. ...
There is a song which tells us that we should look after our homeland, the place we have seen getting older in parallel with us. An empty place as Oteiza described, with a house and a "frontón" attached. Just that. Simply that. Nothing else. I...
This post may be the most relevant post of this site https://www.igorcalzada.com, due to what is explained in the doctoral and postdoctoral research sequence. Furthermore, the whole PostDoctoral Research project "The Future of City-Regions - Comparative Territorial Benchmarking" can be found in the website http://www.cityregions.org...
Invited by the new prospective initiative launched by the University of the Basque Country, EHUGunea, I gave a conference on 3rd May 2013 about the future of the Basque Country through a scenario planning technique. The outcome of the conference was titled: Balance & Imbalance...
Here is the chapter which I contributed within the International Handbook of Social Innovation published by Edward Elgar and coordinated by Frank Moulaert....
This is the result of the collaboration with Antonio Gutierrez-Rubí in an event that took place and was organized by the University of Lleida (Catalonia) on 19th January 2013: The book Networked-Nation....
As a consequence, to be invited to take part in the roundtable titled "Will Social Innovation Save Spain?" that took place in the Hub of Islington (London) on 12th November 2012, the participants were mentioned in the article published in the The Guardian on the...
Between March and November 2012, I was the Scientific Director organizing the Basque City-Region 2012 Congress in collaboration with the Spatial Planning of the Basque Government. All the content was stored in two platforms: one in Basque & Spanish and the other one in English....
