21 Sep ‘Democratising Smart Cities: Urban Commons’ paper in the RSA Spatial Smartness International Conference in Gdansk (21/9/2017, Poland)
Dr Calzada delivered a paper on 'Democratising Smart Cities: Urban Commons'....
06 Nov (Un)Plugging Smart Cities covered by Forbes & the CNN after keynote conference in China
After Yinchuan Smart City 2016 conference organised by TMForum, Forbes and the CNN International covered some ideas presented by Dr Calzada regarding the concept (Un)Plugging Smart Cities inspired by the journal article published in the Journal of Urban Technology entitled 'Unplugging: Deconstructing the Smart City',...
25 Oct ‘Education for (Social) Innovation: Transformation in (Smart) Cities/Educación para la Innovación (Social): Transformación en las Ciudades (Inteligentes)” Workshop 2016 Innovation Week organised by Fomento San Sebastian (Economic Promotion Agency)
Dr Calzada and Dr Cobo (both from the Future of Cities/Urban Transformations and Oxford Internet Institute respectively at the University of Oxford), will conduct a workshop entitled 'Education for (Social) Innovation: Transformation in (Smart) Cities' in St. Sebastián on 25th October 2016 as an action...
17 Feb REPLICATE H2020 Smart Cities and Communities Lighthouse Project funded by the European Commission
REPLICATE, “Renaissance of PLaces with Innovative Citizenship And TEchnology”, is funded by a 29M grant from Horizon 2020, the main EU program fostering research and innovation actions. This project belongs to the “Lighthouse” call (Smart Cities and Communities solutions integrating energy, transport, ICT sectors...
17 Jan Joining as Senior Research Fellow the Urban Transformations research team at the University of Oxford
As a part of the Urban Transformations research project team funded by the ESRC (Economic & Social Research Council in the UK) based at COMPAS at the University of Oxford, Dr Igor Calzada, MBA will be in charge of the European branch by networking and...
14 Oct ‘Demos-Ethos: A framework to study the Icelandic & Basque cases through Critical Social Innovation and Applied Ethics’ in Innovation: The European Journal of Social Science Research after intensive fieldwork 2013-2015
During the week of 22nd to 29th September 2013, I spent the field work trip collecting data in Reykjavik (Iceland) for my postdoctoral project 'Benchmarking Future City-Regions'. Almost, a year and four months later, here is my scientific ethnographic chronicle that has been published in...
04 Nov ‘Postindependence in Scotland, Catalonia and the Basque Country’ paper presented & panel chaired on 30th October 2014 in Sheffield RSA EC Conference
Dr Calzada presented the paper 'Postindependence in Scotland, Catalonia and the Basque Country' at the RSA Regional Studies Association Conference in Sheffield on 30th October 2014. Likewise, he chaired a panel on Regional Development....
03 Nov Advisory Board member at STEEP Smart City Plan for St Sebastian (SP), Bristol (UK) & Florence (IT). 23th Sept 2014 Bristol.
On 23rd September Dr Calzada attended the STEEP EU project no. 314277 'Systems Thinking for Comprehensive City Efficient Energy Planning' in Bristol as a member of the Advisory Board. The project aims to design a Smart City Director Plan after the cross-learning process of three...
05 Oct #Unplugging > Deconstructing Smart Cities Beyond Hyper-Connected Societies Project: Workshop, Applied Research & Keynote Presentations.
Dr Calzada, in collaboration with Dr Cobo, launches the project entitled #Unplugging: Deconstructing Smart Cities Beyond Hyper-Connected Societies. The project consists of workshops, applied research projects and keynotes presentation about #Unplugging with different stakeholders such as policy-makers, students, researchers, academics, politicians, civil servants, consultants, lecturers...