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'....
28 Jun Keynote speaker in the Workshop in Brasilia (Brazil) on Environmental Governance for Sustainable Urban Transformation funded by Newton Fund & the British Council. 4-8th July 2016
Dr Calzada will travel with other British academics to Brazil, to meet and work together in order to build overall research capacity. ...
12 May ‘Smartness for Prosperity: UK & Brazil’ policy report commissioned by the Future Cities Catapult
This policy report has been commissioned by the Future Cites Catapult as a collaborative undertaking with Dr Calzada, MACI Innovations and Translokal publishing to research the topic of Smart Infrastructure in nominated Cities in both the UK and Brazil. Future Cities Catapult is a global...
07 Jan ‘Political & Social Innovation in the Age of Devolution and Smartness in Cities’ at the Wise & Smart City: Sharing Economy Conference at the L’Università Di Torino (Italy)
Dr Calzada was invited by the University of Torino in Italy to give a lecture on Smart City. He deployed a conceptualisation regarding smartness, devolution, social innovation and political innovation. Specially, the conference focused on the sharing economy initiatives....
11 Oct ‘Smart Devolution’ paper presented at the Smart City-Regional Governance International Symposium in Brussels (Belgium)
A paper about Smart Devolution was presented in Brussels, Vrije Universiteit Brussel - Cosmopolis Centre for Urban Research at the 'Smart City-Regional Governance - International Symposium' on 8 and 9th October....
06 Aug ‘Benchmarking Scotland, Catalonia & The Basque Country’ paper presented at UACES 45th Annual Conference, Bilbao, (Basque Country – Spain), 9 September 2015
Here is a Call for Papers I am convening with Dr Herrschel, Newman and Pedersen for the UACES 45th Annual Conference, Bilbao, Spain, 7-9 September 2015 entitled: 'European City-Regions and the Re-Scaling of the Nation-State: The Role of Cities in the Quest for Self Determination...