I arrived in Portland in March 2009. It was a highly productive time of my doctoral research at the PSU, but I also interviewed some other stakeholders in the City-Region of Portland (Oregon). Definitely, I stepped up the field work case that would be...
In 2009, I travelled over the Atlantic from the West of the USA, in order to give some lectures in a Master degree about the importance of creativity and innovation in our societal challenges and in some micro level organizational issues....
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...
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...
Have you ever heard anything about Burning Man? Do you know where it takes place? Do you know when it started? While living in Nevada State, I had very little excuse not to have a quick look. Thus, I attended the 2008 Edition that was...
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...
This article shows the current status of the understanding of Social Innovation as a newly leitmotif in the Basque Country's public policies....
This article tackles a difficult and always slippery term: Identity. Arousing confusion when it refers to certain sociopolitical realities, the author tries to locate it in the Social Innovation paradigm....
