11 Oct Basque Public Radio Station // Euskadi Irratia > Nazioarteko eztabaida on line
I participated virtually from the USA, in the Basque Public Radio Station talking about the financial crisis....
25 Sep DSS2016EU > European Cultural Capital City 2016
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....
13 Sep Ciudades “Auténticas”
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...
12 Sep Desertuko Hiri Sortzailea
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...
11 Sep Burning “Basque”
This article describes what I found in the 2008 Burning Man edition and how we can explain such an amazing and weird collective behaviour. Words that are explained: #participation #communities #creative At the end of the article, the author suggests playing with words in order to apply and connect North American context with the Basque one. --- Irudikatu ahal izango zenukete honakoa: 48.000 lagun desertu batera joan eta astebetez guztien partehartze interaktiboaren bitartez, auzolanean, hutsetik hasita, hiri sortzaile bat eraikitzea? Ez da desertuko espejismoa. Benetakoa da. Eta zin dagizuet, ezin da deskribapenean, han bizi izandakoa azaldu.
25 May (Euskal) HIRItarrok 2.0.
This article aims to describe the basque complex diversity of the Basque citizenship that I titled, Basque Citizenship 2.0. Towards the political changes in the social dynamics, technology is using new technological tools. However, they do not directly transform the civilian fabric automatically....
25 May Política-mente in-correcto
Shortly before the 2008 crisis, the continental European countries and regions such as the Basque Country started facing an incredible paradox: while public policies encouraged youngsters and the unemployed to run an entrepreneurial idea, politicians, civil servants and fixed employees did not favour it...
25 May Visiting Scholar & Associate Researcher at the Centre for Basque Studies of the University of Nevada, Reno
Igor Calzada, Sociologist and Senior Researcher - Project Director on the Mondragon Co-operative Corporation at Mondragon University - Mik (Basque Country - Spain), is a visiting scholar at the Center during 2008 and 2009. He is conducting research for his PhD dissertation. Igor received a...
25 May Where are you from?
This article addresses a question related to the real matter of the place in which we decide "where we are from". Always an open question with an uncertain personal reply that implies deep personal and collective consequences for the human being....