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....
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...
The goal was to leave the West of the USA in order to get Vitoria-Gasteiz, in the Basque Country (Spain) to teach Continuous Education Teachers gathered for a Course in Creativity, Innovation and Entrepreneurship. The beginning of the work trip started with being stuck in...
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...
Between 15-17th May 2008, I participated in the International Conference on "Writers in Between Languages. Minority Literatures in the Global Scene" organized by the Centre for Basque Studies at the University of Nevada, in Reno (USA). Among other participants: Bernardo Atxaga, Joseba Zulaika, Aurelia Arkotxa, Mariasun...
I was invited by the Alava Chambers of Commerce to deliver a talk in front of a younger audience in order to encourage them to be creative. Actually, what I thought right then was that maybe I had to talk to their parents. The...
In 2007, the Creative Society Summer School finished a trilogy of a project based on three Summer Schools (the three websites expired recently): 1.- The Creative Society 2007: http://www.thecreativesociety.org 2.- The Creative Capital 2006: http://www.elcapitalcreativo.org 3.- The Future of Work 2005: http://www.elfuturodeltrabajo.org...
In January 2008, I gave some lectures at the MasterClass on Leadership and Personal Development. The content I provided was titled "Management, Innovation, Creativity and Society"...
FACT, Foundation for Arts and Creative Technology, is an interesting centre just in the heart of Liverpool....
