Dr Calzada delivered on 2nd December the keynote conference in the Smart Travel 2016 event in Portugal. The title of the keynote was 'Translocal Strategies: Connecting (Talented) Citizens in Remote (Smart) Regions'. He aimed to focus on the special circumstances of remote regiones far from the centre by encouraging new translocal strategies based on connecting local/mobile talent in a new term called translocalism. Notion that is connected with the smartness in territories these days. He suggested that tourism and traveling should be rethought according to new patterns of mobility, technology and work/leisure such as millenials, knowmads, highly mobile professionals and so on. He also underlined the changing pattern of on-going disruptive socio-political processes that will have negative consequences by imposing borders and walls between cities and territories: Brexit, Trump, ... New strategies are needed for rurban regions such as Bragança by embracing challenges of connecting territories. The conclusion: Small could be Beautiful...as long as is smartly well connected.

1. Estratégias Translocais:
Conectando Cidadãos (Talentos) em Regiões Remotas (Smart)
Translocal Strategies:
Connec:ng (Talented) Ci:zens in Remote (Smart) Regions
Dr Igor Calzada, MBA
Lecturer & Senior Research Fellow, Future of Ci:es & Urban Transforma:ons, University of Oxford
Lecturer, Ins:tute for Future Ci:es, University of Strathclyde
Associate Fellow, Brussels Centre for Urban Studies, Vrije Universiteit
@icalzada
www.igorcalzada.com
igor.calzada@compas.ox.ac.uk
Smart Travel 2016
9:45 – 10:30
Bragança (Portugal), 2nd December 2016

4. #Remote
1. situated far from the main centers of populaJon; distant.
2. unlikely to occur

5. #Remote

6. #Remote

7. Being grounded is not necessarily
about being fixed;
being mobile is not necessarily
about being detached
Brickell & Datta, 2011

8. Nilüfer/Bursa
(Turkey)
#Bursa #Nilufer metropolitan urban exponenJal populaJon growth 32% in 5 years {2010-2015}
#Turkey #SmartCiJes @ReplicateEU #H2020
282,991 (2009) > 375,474 (2014)
+92,483

9. Bragança
(Portugal)
Oliveira, E. (2015)

11. Calzada, I. (2013), Knowledge Building & OrganizaJonal Behaviour: Mondragon Case, Chapter in the Book Moulaert, F.,
MacCallum, D., Mehmood, A. and Hamdouch, A. InternaJonal Handbook of Social InnovaJon. Social innovaJon: CollecJve
acJon, Social learning and Transdisciplinary research. Cheltenham: Edward Elgar (UK) Publishing. DOI: 10.13140/RG.
2.2.30748.69766.

12. #Remote
#Rurban

13. #Connectography

14. #Trump
#EU
#Brexit
#Refugees
#Fidel
#Erdogan

15. Life is what we make of it. Travel is the traveler.
What we see isn’t what we see but what we are.
Fernando Pessoa

16. Wise (smart?) is he/she who enjoys the show offered by the world
Fernando Pessoa

17. #Travel #Tourism
#Mobility #Cities
#Smart ?

19. #PlanIT Valley
http://www.living-planit.com
Smart City Strategy: PlanlT Valley (Portugal)
PlanIT Valley is endorsed by the Municipality of Paredes and has been designated a
‘Project of National Interest’ by the Portuguese Government. However, the project has
not commenced yet due to funding difficulties.

20. By @EU_H2020
To get out from the
‘smart city-in-the-box’
approach

22. Via @FT
#dataism
'You have to be
somebody before you
can share yourself'
(J. Lanier)
hlps://www.m.com/content/50bb4830-6a4c-11e6-ae5b-a7cc5dd5a28c
#dataism
We are already becoming tiny chips inside a giant system that nobody really understands

23. ‘I have no problem
with technological solutions to social problems.
The key question for me is:
‘Who gets to implement them?’ and,
‘What kinds of politics of reform do technological
solutions smuggle through the back door?’
(Morozov, 2013)

24. #HER

26. @perjovschi

27. UNPLUGGING 2 notions
① Being digitally connected/plugged in is
no guarantee of being smart (Evans
2002: 34)
② Technology is never neutral, and it has
the potential and capacity to be used
socially and politically for quite different
purpose (Williams 1983: 128)

28. TRANSITIONS

29. 1,852 views
6th Most Read ArJcle

30. #SmartCitizens ?
#HospitalityManagement
#Knowmads
#ExperienceEconomy
#HighlyMobileProfessionals
#Millenials
#ConnectingTalent

31. #SystemsOfAlgorithms
#EcoSystemsOfCitizens

32. #TechnologicalDisobedience

33. #CitizensMakers

34. TRANSLOKAL
Bragança

35. S. XXI = Siglo de las Ciudades
1. Única esperanza para la convivencia y la
prosperidad democrática
2. Mentalidad metropolitana:
Cosmopolitismo, diversidad, respeto,
curiosidad, reciprocidad/interdependencia e
innovación.
3. R-Urbanidad = Rural + Urbano:
Metabolismo, equilibrio y sostenibilidad.
By @CdF_IM

36. #Translocalism
#Smartourism #Smartravel
Small is BeauJful…
…as long as is Smartly well Connected

37. 10
Estratégias
Translocais

38. Social
Entrepreneurs
By @icalzada
#MultiStakeholders
Calzada, I. (2013), Critical Social Innovation in the Smart City era for a City-Regional European Horizon
2020. Journal of Public Policies & Territory P3T. Vol 2, Nº 6 (2013): Social Innovation & Territory. Winter.
pp. 1-20.
#PENTAHELIX
Calzada, I. (2016), (Un)Plugging Smart Cities with Urban Transformations: Towards Multistakeholder City-Regional
Complex Urbanity?, URBS, Revista de Estudios Urbanos y Ciencias Sociales Journal, 6(2), 25-45. 6(2). 25-45. <
Accessed on 10th November 2016 http://www2.ual.es/urbs/index.php/urbs/article/view/calzada >

39. hlp://www.regionalstudies.org/conferences/special-sessions/ss-dublin-2017
#CallForPapers
#CfP

40. hlp://
www.urbantransformaJons.ox.ac.uk/
blog/2016/unplugging-data-in-smart-
city-regions-bridging-european-urban-
transformaJons-esrc-workshop-series-
european-smart-ciJzens-as-decision-
makers-rather-than-data-providers/

42. Satyam, A. & Calzada, I.
(2016),
The Smart City
Transforma1ons. The
Revolu1on of the 21st
Century.
Bloomsbury Academic
and Professional
Publishing. [In Print]

43. Calzada, I. (Ed) [et al.] (2017),
Global Sustainable City-
Regions: Stockholm, Berlin,
Kolkata, Abu Dhabi/Masdar,
Bengaluru, Malawi, Belfast,
Hong Kong, Seoul, Helsinki
and Scotland, Translokal –
Academic Entrepreneurship
for Policy Making – Publishing,
DonosJa in collaboraJon with
City Protocol Society &
InsJtute for Future CiJes,
University of Strathclyde. ISBN
(e-book): 978-84-946385-0-3.
[Forthcoming]

44. Dr Igor Calzada, MBA
Urban Transforma:ons & Future of Ci:es
University of Oxford
@icalzada
www.igorcalzada.com
igor.calzada@compas.ox.ac.uk
Skype: icalzada
(0) 1865 274687
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