01 Dec Critical Social Innovation for a Regional Europe: Why & how?
Social Innovation Europe magazine published on 3rd December, 2013 the article titled "Critical Social Innovation for a City-Regional Europe: Why & How?"...
16 Nov The Future of City-Regions <> Comparative Territorial Benchmarking > Regional Studies Association Winter Conference (London, UK)
The paper "The Future of City-Regions <> Comparative Territorial Benchmarking/Connection" was accepted in the Regional Studies Association Winter Conference 2013 "Mobilising Regions: Territorial Strategies for Growth" that took place in London on 22nd November, 2013....
18 Sep Hunting Graffities & Tagging Cities > Urban Exploration Photographic Portfolio
The way that we observe an #urban environment means we come across #graffiti which could be considered to be an unconscious kind of exploration, whereas walking randomly we can #hunt #graffiti as a real way to #tag #cities. We will not forget the #cities that...
24 Jul Territories & Entrepreneurs Benchmarking > Säid Business School > University of Oxford (UK)
On the 23rd July, 2013, I presented the paper title "Territories & Entrepreneurs Benchmarking" in the Social Entrepreneurship 2013 Research Colloquium at the Skoll Centre in Oxford. Among other topics, I tried to introduce into the debate how relevant it is to consider territorial and...
28 Apr Social Innovation Methodological Workshop > Basque & Oresund Connection in San Telmo Museum (St Sebastian – Basque, Spain)
Following up with the Oresund City-Region and trying to empirically compare the Basque Country and the Oresund City-Region as a dissemination activity of the Future of City-Region <> Comparative Territorial Benchmarking project, Fredrik Björk and myself arranged a Methodological Social Innovation Workshop driven by Action...
08 Mar Oresund City-Region > University of Malmö, Oresund (Sweden)
I started researching the Oresund City-Region in 2010, with one study in Malmö and the other one in Copenhagen. Here is the second study, which I proceeded with the Ethnographic field work research for the Future of City-Regions <> Comparative Territorial Benchmarking....
01 Jan Basque City-Region <> Euskal Hiria 2012 Congress
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....
06 Jun Towards Future of City-Regions? University of Oxford (UK)
On 23rd May, 2012, I delivered a seminar at the Potluck Seminar series for the Future of Cities Programme which I am member of. The session was attended by Steve Rayner, Idalina Baptista and Ebru Soytemel, among other participants....