This document announces a workshop on rethinking the urban commons in European city-regions. The workshop will be held in Brussels on February 12, 2018 and is the final event in a series funded by the ESRC on bridging European urban transformations from 2016-2018. The workshop aims to conceptualize the idea of the urban commons and discuss its potential for addressing challenges around austerity, social innovation, and urban governance. Speakers will explore topics like housing cooperatives, informal settlements, and social innovation initiatives as examples of the urban commons. The goal is to bring together academics, policymakers, activists, and others to reflect on and debate the future of the commons in European cities and regions.
LIBER DH Working Group Workshop: Digital Humanities Activities at Göttingen S...LIBER Europe
This presentation was given as part of the Digital Humanities workshop at LIBER 2017, Patras. For more about LIBER and the Digital Humanities Working Group, please see: www.libereurope.eu
how openstreetmap is a wonderfull place for the citizen science where learn, improve ad reproduce
presentation made for a workshop organized by the Cost Action CA15212
https://www.cs-eu.net/
On 13 February 2017, the Urban Transformations programme, funded by the Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC), brought together a range of academics and practitioners from across Europe for a knowledge exchange event on urban living labs and smart cities. The University of Oxford convened the event, working with the European Regions Research & Innovation Network (ERRIN) and the workshop took place at one of ERRIN’s members, the Delegation of the Basque Country to the EU. This was the second in a series entitled Bridging European Urban Transformations established in partnership with the VUB (Vrije Universiteit Brussel) and its Brussels Centre for Urban Studies. In this post-Brexit era, cooperation across borders and disciplines seems more important than ever before. Consequently the series, which runs from November 2016 to October 2017, emphasises the value of connections between institutions and key players in the field of urban transformations in the UK and in the rest of Europe.
Msc architecture, urbanism and building sciences Graduation studio advanced h...DirkJanus
Embark on a visual and intellectual adventure within the pages of a singular booklet, where the tapestry of my final year in architectural exploration unfolds. Delve into the innovative realm of the "productive city" concept, where the urban landscape is reimagined and rearranged for enhanced dynamism and productivity. This captivating overview not only captures the essence of my architectural practices and studies but also serves as a compelling exploration of urban evolution through the lens of history, weaving together a narrative that envisions a more vibrant and productive cityscape. Join me on this journey of reshaping our urban fabric through a lens that bridges the past with a visionary future.
Dr Igor Calzada, MBA, presents the paper 'Comparing Smart City-Regional Governance Strategies in Bristol, Glasgow, Bilbao & Barcelona' at the University of Oxford on 18th Feb 2016.
LIBER DH Working Group Workshop: Digital Humanities Activities at Göttingen S...LIBER Europe
This presentation was given as part of the Digital Humanities workshop at LIBER 2017, Patras. For more about LIBER and the Digital Humanities Working Group, please see: www.libereurope.eu
how openstreetmap is a wonderfull place for the citizen science where learn, improve ad reproduce
presentation made for a workshop organized by the Cost Action CA15212
https://www.cs-eu.net/
On 13 February 2017, the Urban Transformations programme, funded by the Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC), brought together a range of academics and practitioners from across Europe for a knowledge exchange event on urban living labs and smart cities. The University of Oxford convened the event, working with the European Regions Research & Innovation Network (ERRIN) and the workshop took place at one of ERRIN’s members, the Delegation of the Basque Country to the EU. This was the second in a series entitled Bridging European Urban Transformations established in partnership with the VUB (Vrije Universiteit Brussel) and its Brussels Centre for Urban Studies. In this post-Brexit era, cooperation across borders and disciplines seems more important than ever before. Consequently the series, which runs from November 2016 to October 2017, emphasises the value of connections between institutions and key players in the field of urban transformations in the UK and in the rest of Europe.
Msc architecture, urbanism and building sciences Graduation studio advanced h...DirkJanus
Embark on a visual and intellectual adventure within the pages of a singular booklet, where the tapestry of my final year in architectural exploration unfolds. Delve into the innovative realm of the "productive city" concept, where the urban landscape is reimagined and rearranged for enhanced dynamism and productivity. This captivating overview not only captures the essence of my architectural practices and studies but also serves as a compelling exploration of urban evolution through the lens of history, weaving together a narrative that envisions a more vibrant and productive cityscape. Join me on this journey of reshaping our urban fabric through a lens that bridges the past with a visionary future.
Dr Igor Calzada, MBA, presents the paper 'Comparing Smart City-Regional Governance Strategies in Bristol, Glasgow, Bilbao & Barcelona' at the University of Oxford on 18th Feb 2016.
Evaluation of the Thermal Comfort in the Design of the Museum Routes: The Thermal Topology
* Ph.D. Candidate SELMA SARAOUI1, Dr. AZEDDINE BELAKEHAL 2, Dr. ABDELGHANI ATTAR 3 Dr. AMAR BENNADJI 4
1 Department of Architecture, University of Bejaia, Algeria.
² Laboratoire de Conception et de Modélisation des Formes et des Ambiances (LACOMOFA), Department of Architecture, University of Biskra, Algeria.
³MCB at the Department of Architecture, University of Bejaia, Algeria.
4 The Scott Sutherland School of Architecture and Built Environment, the Robert Gordon University, UK
E mail: saraoui.selma@gmail.com , E mail: belakehal@gmail.com , E mail: attar.a.ghani@gmail.com , E mail: a.bennadji@rgu.ac.uk
A B S T R A C T
Museums are nowadays among the most popular projects for the public, the concept of thermal comfort in museums is often treated after the realization. Even if in the design, the architect shows a particular intention to work with daylight which is considered for these projects as main, the architect often considers certain elements that have an influence on the energy balance of these projects such as: orientation, building materials. The museum route is the key to the success of any museum project, it is the space of the visitor, the space in which he is invaded by sensations. In this study, we will first evaluate the thermal comfort in the museum as a whole (building) and then through its route. The objective is to guide reflection in the design of the museum towards the route in order to reduce energy consumption. In order to carry out our study, some European museums were analysed by means of simulation, according to the thermal comfort of their designs for the most unfavourable conditions, then by a thermal analysis of the museum route according to the segmentation principle using the average radiant temperature. This method allowed us to bring out correspondences between the architectural form and the route. Finally, the segmentation method constitutes the basis of a new methodological approach called "thermal topology" based on the discontinuities of the temperatures in the route.
Speech presentation at Northeast Normal University ( Changchun, China)Γιώργος Ζάχος
Παρουσίαση σε ομιλία στο Συνέδριο “New Trends in Scholarly Communication System and the Transformation of Research Libraries”, Πανεπιστήμιο Northeast Normal University, Changchun, Κίνα, 20 -23 Σεπτεμβρίου 2016.
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Presentation of my speech at the Conference "
New Trends in Scholarly Communication System and the Transformation of Research Libraries”, Northeast Normal University, Changchun, China, 20 -23 Σεπτεμβρίου 2016.
Architectural competitions are no longer simply professional praxis for
architects and a recurrent exercise for students at schools of architecture. The competition has also turned into a field of research, and this
book is part of an effort constituting the architectural competition as a field
for studies with scholarly claims. The first doctoral dissertations on competitions were presented in the 1990s in Europe. Another clear manifestation of
research interest is the growth and spread of scholarly conferences on architectural competitions.
The contributions to the book show in a convincing way that the architectural competition is an interesting and rewarding object for research. The
competition processes bear rich empirical findings to which one may refer for
knowledge about architecture as professional practice, as educational subject
and research platform. The architectural competition illustrates processes
of change in society that are technical and organizational as well as social; it
shows up constructive dilemmas, the borderline of rationality and the relative,
creative insecurity of knowledge production in architectural projects.
Research partnerships, user participation, extended outreach – some of ETH L...ETH-Bibliothek
IFLA Satellite Meeting 2017: Digital Humanities, Berlin, August 2017
> From "boutique" to mass digitization
> (Cooperative) online platforms for digitized content
> Research Partnerships
> User Participation
> Outreach
Basque settlement increased in the western states of the US decades ago, particularly in California, Idaho, and Nevada. Alongside this migration phenomenon, Basque Studies programs have been emerging at the University of Nevada, Reno (UNR), Boise State University (BSU), and California State University, Bakersfield (CSUB), particularly in the humanities, including history, anthropology, linguistics, and literature. The impact of the pandemic in Basque e-Diasporic communities in California, Idaho, and Nevada, and, consequently, the deep digitalization process being undertaken at the abovementioned universities, has resulted in an increasing demand for an articulated strategy in community engagement through action research. To respond to this timely challenge, the article suggests a need for a transition towards a Social Science transdisciplinary roadmap to support Basque e-diasporic communities. Basque Studies programs have the potential to act as a transformational policy driver through their virtual connections with the Basque Country and key homeland institutions. This article explores this necessary transition through action research by acknowledging the potential for the three abovementioned US states and the Basque Country to set up a transformational e-Diaspora.
To cite this journal article:
Calzada, I. & Arranz, I. (2022), Western US Basque-American e-Diaspora: Action Research in California, Idaho, and Nevada. Societies 12(6), 153. DOI:10.3390/soc12060153.
Dr Calzada's Fulbright Scholar-In-Residence reception took place on 10th October 2022 at California State University, Bakersfield. This event contributed to launch the Institute for Basque Studies (IBS) through a renewed academic programme based on trans-disciplinarity, entrepreneurship, and digitalisation by connecting the Basque Country, Wales, and California. The Fulbright reception event presentation focused on opportunities both at the city-regional level for Central Valley as well as from e-diaspora perspective in relation to Boise and Reno's Basque Studies programme. It is up to the IBS now to implement core foundations stemming from Fulbright S-I-R's programme led by Dr Calzada as PI. An efficient coordination within the CSUB and strategic stakeholders under the supervision of the PI in Bakersfield and Kern County will be required to make this Fulbright S-I-R's foundational statement feasible and doable, which should actively endure over time. The 5th December 2022, alongside the IBS-Etxepare agreement signature, a workshop will be held by the IBS to wrap up and put into practice Fulbright SIR-IBS programme's foundational formulation from January 2023 onwards being that co-led by the PI and IBS.
To cite this document/presentation:
Calzada, I. (2022). Fulbright Scholar-In-Residence (S-I-R) Reception. California State University, Bakersfield (CSUB), October 10, Bakersfield, California: USA. DOI: DOI: 10.13140/RG.2.2.28746.85448.
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Evaluation of the Thermal Comfort in the Design of the Museum Routes: The Thermal Topology
* Ph.D. Candidate SELMA SARAOUI1, Dr. AZEDDINE BELAKEHAL 2, Dr. ABDELGHANI ATTAR 3 Dr. AMAR BENNADJI 4
1 Department of Architecture, University of Bejaia, Algeria.
² Laboratoire de Conception et de Modélisation des Formes et des Ambiances (LACOMOFA), Department of Architecture, University of Biskra, Algeria.
³MCB at the Department of Architecture, University of Bejaia, Algeria.
4 The Scott Sutherland School of Architecture and Built Environment, the Robert Gordon University, UK
E mail: saraoui.selma@gmail.com , E mail: belakehal@gmail.com , E mail: attar.a.ghani@gmail.com , E mail: a.bennadji@rgu.ac.uk
A B S T R A C T
Museums are nowadays among the most popular projects for the public, the concept of thermal comfort in museums is often treated after the realization. Even if in the design, the architect shows a particular intention to work with daylight which is considered for these projects as main, the architect often considers certain elements that have an influence on the energy balance of these projects such as: orientation, building materials. The museum route is the key to the success of any museum project, it is the space of the visitor, the space in which he is invaded by sensations. In this study, we will first evaluate the thermal comfort in the museum as a whole (building) and then through its route. The objective is to guide reflection in the design of the museum towards the route in order to reduce energy consumption. In order to carry out our study, some European museums were analysed by means of simulation, according to the thermal comfort of their designs for the most unfavourable conditions, then by a thermal analysis of the museum route according to the segmentation principle using the average radiant temperature. This method allowed us to bring out correspondences between the architectural form and the route. Finally, the segmentation method constitutes the basis of a new methodological approach called "thermal topology" based on the discontinuities of the temperatures in the route.
Speech presentation at Northeast Normal University ( Changchun, China)Γιώργος Ζάχος
Παρουσίαση σε ομιλία στο Συνέδριο “New Trends in Scholarly Communication System and the Transformation of Research Libraries”, Πανεπιστήμιο Northeast Normal University, Changchun, Κίνα, 20 -23 Σεπτεμβρίου 2016.
=======================
Presentation of my speech at the Conference "
New Trends in Scholarly Communication System and the Transformation of Research Libraries”, Northeast Normal University, Changchun, China, 20 -23 Σεπτεμβρίου 2016.
Architectural competitions are no longer simply professional praxis for
architects and a recurrent exercise for students at schools of architecture. The competition has also turned into a field of research, and this
book is part of an effort constituting the architectural competition as a field
for studies with scholarly claims. The first doctoral dissertations on competitions were presented in the 1990s in Europe. Another clear manifestation of
research interest is the growth and spread of scholarly conferences on architectural competitions.
The contributions to the book show in a convincing way that the architectural competition is an interesting and rewarding object for research. The
competition processes bear rich empirical findings to which one may refer for
knowledge about architecture as professional practice, as educational subject
and research platform. The architectural competition illustrates processes
of change in society that are technical and organizational as well as social; it
shows up constructive dilemmas, the borderline of rationality and the relative,
creative insecurity of knowledge production in architectural projects.
Research partnerships, user participation, extended outreach – some of ETH L...ETH-Bibliothek
IFLA Satellite Meeting 2017: Digital Humanities, Berlin, August 2017
> From "boutique" to mass digitization
> (Cooperative) online platforms for digitized content
> Research Partnerships
> User Participation
> Outreach
Basque settlement increased in the western states of the US decades ago, particularly in California, Idaho, and Nevada. Alongside this migration phenomenon, Basque Studies programs have been emerging at the University of Nevada, Reno (UNR), Boise State University (BSU), and California State University, Bakersfield (CSUB), particularly in the humanities, including history, anthropology, linguistics, and literature. The impact of the pandemic in Basque e-Diasporic communities in California, Idaho, and Nevada, and, consequently, the deep digitalization process being undertaken at the abovementioned universities, has resulted in an increasing demand for an articulated strategy in community engagement through action research. To respond to this timely challenge, the article suggests a need for a transition towards a Social Science transdisciplinary roadmap to support Basque e-diasporic communities. Basque Studies programs have the potential to act as a transformational policy driver through their virtual connections with the Basque Country and key homeland institutions. This article explores this necessary transition through action research by acknowledging the potential for the three abovementioned US states and the Basque Country to set up a transformational e-Diaspora.
To cite this journal article:
Calzada, I. & Arranz, I. (2022), Western US Basque-American e-Diaspora: Action Research in California, Idaho, and Nevada. Societies 12(6), 153. DOI:10.3390/soc12060153.
Dr Calzada's Fulbright Scholar-In-Residence reception took place on 10th October 2022 at California State University, Bakersfield. This event contributed to launch the Institute for Basque Studies (IBS) through a renewed academic programme based on trans-disciplinarity, entrepreneurship, and digitalisation by connecting the Basque Country, Wales, and California. The Fulbright reception event presentation focused on opportunities both at the city-regional level for Central Valley as well as from e-diaspora perspective in relation to Boise and Reno's Basque Studies programme. It is up to the IBS now to implement core foundations stemming from Fulbright S-I-R's programme led by Dr Calzada as PI. An efficient coordination within the CSUB and strategic stakeholders under the supervision of the PI in Bakersfield and Kern County will be required to make this Fulbright S-I-R's foundational statement feasible and doable, which should actively endure over time. The 5th December 2022, alongside the IBS-Etxepare agreement signature, a workshop will be held by the IBS to wrap up and put into practice Fulbright SIR-IBS programme's foundational formulation from January 2023 onwards being that co-led by the PI and IBS.
To cite this document/presentation:
Calzada, I. (2022). Fulbright Scholar-In-Residence (S-I-R) Reception. California State University, Bakersfield (CSUB), October 10, Bakersfield, California: USA. DOI: DOI: 10.13140/RG.2.2.28746.85448.
Smart City Citizenship provides rigorous analysis for academics and policymakers on the participatory processes and practices of smart cities to help integrate ICT-related innovation into urban life. Unlike other smart city books that are often edited collections, this book focuses on the business domain and the technological disruptions themselves, also examining the role of citizens and the democratic governance issues raised from an interdisciplinary perspective. As smart city research is a fast-growing topic of scientific inquiry and evolving rapidly, this book is an ideal reference for a much needed discussion.
To cite this book: Calzada, I. (2020), Smart City Citizenship, Cambridge, Massachusetts: Elsevier Science Publishing Co Inc. ISBN-10: 0128153008 ISBN-13: 978-0128153000
Further information:
ELSEVIER
https://www.elsevier.com/books/smart-city-citizenship/calzada/978-0-12-815300-0
AMAZON
https://www.amazon.in/Smart-City-Citizenship-Igor-Calzada/dp/0128153008/ref=sr_1_2?qid=1565528866&refinements=p_27%3AIgor+Calzada&s=books&sr=1-2
Abstract:
In light of the recent ‘tourism-phobia’, there is a need to better understand how tourism could be transformed through new business and social models. Attempts have been made, for example, to identify which experimental tourism models would align with the United Nations (UN) Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). Nonetheless, research remains scant and the policy paradigm slightly out of date. With the pervasive proliferation of tourism services provided by big tech multinationals such as AirBnB and Uber and the rapid algorithmic disruption of the so-called “sharing economy” paradigm, several European cities and regions are seeking to mitigate the negative side-effects caused by “platform capitalism” in their neighborhoods and local communities. These side-effects include gentrification, privatization of public space, inherent conflicts between visitors/tourists and residents/locals, environmental damage, and precarious working conditions, among others. Thus, this paper explores why tourism in Europe requires new business and social models to neutralise this algorithmic disruption and modify the extractivist neoliberal logic in tourism to develop new, transformative, techno-political, bottom-up, and networked strategies stemming from the city-regional realm. Against the backdrop of the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) in the EU that has recently taken effect on 25 May 2018, this paper argues that a new, transformative, tourism paradigm could emerge from the European political left. The push of the city-regional resurgence beyond established nation-states could enable grassroots and institutional tourism initiatives to take the lead and coordinate a political response to achieve further sustainable, equitable, and, ultimately, democratic technological sovereignty in diverse localities through Europe. In conclusion, this paper posits city-regional, bottom-up, and networked dynamics characterised by the GDPR as an opportunity to establish a new techno-political paradigm in tourism by overcoming data and algorithmic extractivist practices.
To cite this publication: Calzada, I. (2020), Seeing Tourism Transformations in Europe through Algorithmic, Techno-Political and City-Regional Lenses, In Transforming Tourism: Regional Perspectives on a Global Phenomenon. Edited by the Coppieters and Ezkerraberri Foundations. 2020/01. Chapter 6. pp 74-89. Brussels: Centre Maurits Coppieters CMC. ISBN: 978-90-826321-0-1. doi:10.13140/RG.2.2.33522.45769/1.
ABSTRACT: This article draws on the thorny topic of the Social Innovation (SI). Particularly, it revolves around the role of those social movements promoting the Basque language not only in relation to their organisational models but also to their holistic strategy to tackle inevitably digital, urban, and political challenges surfaced by the disruptions stemming from the post-COVID society.
To cite this article:
Calzada, I. (2020), The Role of Social Movements in the Social Innovation (SI): Euskaraldia as a Digital Panopticon. BAT Aldizkaria 115(2): 00-00. DOI: 10.13140/RG.2.2.35980.05763/2. [Preprint] Forthcoming. CC BY-NC 4.0
Video:
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Slides:
https://www.slideshare.net/topagunea/topaldia-2020-igor-calzada-oxfordeko-unibertsitatea
General link:
https://topaldia.topagunea.eus/topaldia-2020/igor-calzada/
Over the last decades, globalisation has led to a new class of global citizens. While the access to this global citizenship is still not spread evenly, many have enjoyed the freedom to move, work, and travel with no limits. However, this cosmopolitan globalisation rhetoric of a borderless world has been drastically slowed down by Covid-19. This pandemic has introduced a new level of uncertainty in global affairs and led many to question whether citizens will be able to continue enjoying the freedom of movement once the crisis is over. To share this article: https://apolitical.co/en/solution_article/will-covid-19-be-the-end-of-the-global-citizen To cite this article: Calzada, I. (2020), Will Covid-19 be the end of the global citizen? Apolitical. Retrieved from: https://apolitical.co/en/solution_article/will-covid-19-be-the-end-of-the-global-citizen DOI: 10.13140/RG.2.2.11942.27208/1.
Dr Igor Calzada participates on 26th and 27th September 2019 in Barcelona on the ‘Workshop on Public Policy, Cities and the State’ co-organised by the UPF (Barcelona) and SciencesPo (Paris). He presents a paper about a forthcoming publication:
Calzada, I. (2020), Emerging Citizenship Regimes and Rescaling (European) Nation-States: Algorithmic, Liquid, Metropolitan and Stateless Citizenship Ideal Types. In Sami Moisio, Andrew EG Jonas, Natalie Koch, Christopher Lizotte, Juho Luukkonen and Matthew Sparke (eds), Handbook on the Changing Geographies of the State: New Spaces of Geopolitics. Cheltenham, UK and Northampton, MA, USA: Edward Elgar Publishing. [Forthcoming] DOI: 10.13140:RG.2.2.17301.6832/1.
Here is the reference of the paper:
Calzada, I. (2019), Emerging Citizenship Regimes and Rescaling (European) Nation-States: Algorithmic, Liquid, Metropolitan and Stateless Citizenship Ideal Types. Workshop on Public Policy, Cities and the State jointly co-organised by the Universitat Pompeu Fabra-Barcelona (UPF), Department of Political and Social Sciences & SciencesPo (Centre d’Études Européennes et de Politique Comparée)-Paris, UPF, 26-27 Sept., Barcelona (Spain).
This is a periodistic article published on September 8, 2019, in the Basque newspaper Berria, which is entirely in Basque language. The article revolves around the volatile Brexit context by giving several insights referring to the democratic dysfunctional nature of Brexit whatsoever and elaborating from an sketchy and nuanced analysis on the unequal scenarios and future prospects for England, Scotland, Wales, and Northern Ireland.
To cite this article:
Calzada, I. (2019), Brexit: Erraietatik. Berria. DOI:10.13140/RG.2.2.15258.59849.
AI is now an important component of sectors such as healthcare, agriculture, public administration and transportation, and is helping to address major challenges such as ageing and climate change. However, there is currently a lack of transparency in algorithmic governance systems, and this is worsened when these algorithms are integrated into already opaque governance structures in our cities. Moreover, over the past decade, the propagation of sensors and data collection machines in so-called ‘smart cities’ by both the public and the private sectors has created democratic challenges around AI, surveillance capitalism, and protecting citizens’ digital rights to privacy and ownership.
This is a policy report elaborated by the Basque Studies' Society to collect a wide range of opinions on the prospective nature of the Basque territory. Dr Calzada has contributed to the report in a 'Collective Authorship' fashion.
This is the report published on 25th June 2018 by the All-Party Parliamentary Group of the UK Government entitled: 'Intelligent leadership: How government strategy can unlock the potential of smart cities in the UK' to which Dr Calzada from the University of Oxford has contributed to.
Journal article published in @GlocalismJ on 'Do Digital Social Networks Foster Civilian #Participation among #Millennials? Kitchenware Revolution & #15M Democratic Regeneration cases' #Iceland & #Spain #technopolitics #democracy #socialmedia #OpenAccess http://www.glocalismjournal.net/issues/beyond-democracy-innovation-as-politics/articles/do-digital-social-networks-foster-civilian-partecipation-among-millenials-kitchenware-revolution-and-15m-democratic-regeneration-cases.kl
Territories is a new and innovative international journal that covers the evolution of theories, notions and concepts, facts and interpretations of empirical analysis related to the field of regional studies. The journal aims to publish original research from an interdisciplinary angle, which deals with the economic, socio-political, environmental and philosophical dimensions of urban and non-urban (post-national) regions. The specific goal of Territories stands on the study, debate and intellectual argument on how the global scenario provokes a new understanding, recognition and evolution of regional realities around the world, which go beyond the national concept. This journal will publish papers that engage with the economic and political conditions that have a founded impact towards regional realities, and vice versa. It is important to note that
this reverse angle is crucial to understand the global scene today. Territories represents a new agora where to bring critical perspectives that may help to understand and change the current hegemonic conditions.
Calzada, I. (2018) From Smart Cities to Experimental Cities? In Vincenzo Mario Bruno Giorgino and Zachary David Walsh (eds), Co-Designing Economies in Transition: Radical Approaches in Dialogue with Contemplative Social Sciences. Cham: Springer International Publishing. 191-217. DOI: 10.1007/978-3-319-66592-4_11.
Dr Calzada is participating as partner representative and WP leader of Replication of Replicate EU project, in the 'Replication Workshop: From Follower to Lighthouse City for Smarter Cities' organised by EU-INEA in Brussels.
Dr Calzada has been kindly invited by the Barcelona City Council to take part in the Board of Directors of the Barcelona City Council on 17th January 2018. His presentation has been elaborated in collaboration with ESADE Business School. The title is: 'Cities & Data: Com el Digital, #BigData & #DataScience està transformant els governs'.
Dr Calzada will be teaching as an invited invited and guest lecturer on the MIT Metro Lab Initiative in Boston, Massachusetts on 11th January 2018 on 'Political Regionalism and Metropolitan Governance: Devolution, Metropolitanisation, and the Right to Decide'.
The MIT Metro Lab Initiative have held another edition in which Dr Calzada will contribute to the section: Co-creating the metro discipline that will take place from 8th to 12th January 2018.
During this time, he will be part of the instructors of the theme Metropolitan Governance by addressing the specific and delicate issue of legitimacy. Dr Calzada will examine how a new political regionalism pattern claims expressed and embodied via geo-democratic practices.
Here is the brochure of the entire course.
Dr Calzada will be teaching as an invited invited and guest lecturer on the MIT Metro Lab Initiative in Boston, Massachusetts on 11th January 2018 on 'Political Regionalism and Metropolitan Governance: Devolution, Metropolitanisation, and the Right to Decide'.
The MIT Metro Lab Initiative have held another edition in which Dr Calzada will contribute to the section: Co-creating the metro discipline that will take place from 8th to 12th January 2018.
During this time, he will be part of the instructors of the theme Metropolitan Governance by addressing the specific and delicate issue of legitimacy. Dr Calzada will examine how a new political regionalism pattern claims expressed and embodied via geo-democratic practices.
Here is abstract of his presentation on 11th January 2018, in Boston, Massachusetts (USA).
Dr Calzada has been invited as an instructor and guest lecturer at the MIT Metro Lab Initiative Course 2018 in Boston, Massachussets. He will deliver a conference on Metropolitan Governance and Political Regionalism.
This paper is a report on the recent special session of papers presented at the Regional Studies Association (RSA) Annual Conference in Dublin, entitled ‘Beyond Smart & Data-Driven City-Regions: Rethinking Stakeholder-Helixes Strategies’. The session was a collaboration between the Urban Transformations ESRC programme at the University of Oxford and the Future Cities Catapult.
ZGB - The Role of Generative AI in Government transformation.pdfSaeed Al Dhaheri
This keynote was presented during the the 7th edition of the UAE Hackathon 2024. It highlights the role of AI and Generative AI in addressing government transformation to achieve zero government bureaucracy
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Monitoring Health for the SDGs - Global Health Statistics 2024 - WHOChristina Parmionova
The 2024 World Health Statistics edition reviews more than 50 health-related indicators from the Sustainable Development Goals and WHO’s Thirteenth General Programme of Work. It also highlights the findings from the Global health estimates 2021, notably the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on life expectancy and healthy life expectancy.
2. 2
Date: 12th
February 2018, Monday
Duration: 10:00-15:45
Venue: Visit Brussels.
Address: Visit Brussels. Koningsstraat 2-4 - 1000 Brussels.
Agora Room: (http://bipforrent.brussels/nl/zaal/agora)
Topic:
Although the “urban commons” has increasingly appeared as a topic of scholarly inquiry related to the
urban politics and governance of social innovation in austerity, there has yet to be sustained attention
to the research questions, methodologies, and disciplinary approaches necessary to more fully
conceptualize and develop the idea of the “urban commons” and the new challenges and facets it
introduces into the ongoing study of the commons in diverse fields (Ostrom, 1990, 2000, 2010).
Generally speaking, the problem of governing resources used by many individuals in common has been
long discussed in economics, migration, data science, smart urbanism, and environmental studies
literature in certain European city-regions (Calzada, 2015; Calzada & Cowie, 2017; Keith & Calzada,
2016, 2017; Kitchin, 2015; Labaeye, 2017; McCullough, 2013; Nordling, Sager, & Söderman, 2017;
Parker & Schmidt, 2016; Subirats, 2012). Depending on the type of common resource, attributes of the
group of users and property regime, collective action can either preserve the commons or deplete it.
The condition of common resources in urban areas is currently affected by privatization and
deregulation of public services, as well as by dismantlement of the traditional residential community
due to rapid urbanization. As cities become denser from large-scale urban development projects, the
“urban commons” is either privatized or left in open access. While the latter puts the commons at risk
of wasteful usage, the former limits access to shared resources to a group of privileged users at a cost
of excluding others.
Based on the assumption that the collectivity is incapable of managing common resources,
conventional solutions to the tragedy of the commons (Hardin, 1968) have focused on either
centralized government regulation or privatization of common pool resources. Challenging established
economic theory, however, Ostrom, showed how collectivities (from locals in Africa to Western Nepal)
have developed institutional arrangements for effective management of common resources.
Extrapolating (and somewhat expanding) Ostrom’s analysis to the level of cities (Amanda, 2017;
Bieniok, 2015; Bollier, 2015, 2016; Bollier & Helfrich, 2016a, 2016b; Borch & Kornberger, 2015; Bruun,
2015; Dellenbaugh, Kip, & Bieniok, 2016; Foster, 2011; Foster & Iaione, 2016; Harvey, 2011; Iaione,
2017), it seems evident that rethinking the notion of the “urban commons” is likely to generate
interesting and diverse perspectives in the European city-regional scope: How are the boundaries of
the commons in an urban context defined? What processes regulate the use of the “urban commons”?
What exclusionary processes are involved in such definitional and regulatory processes, and what
organizational and political implications follow in the wake of such endeavours? What are the cognitive,
symbolic, technological, and material infrastructures that render the commons and citizens visible and
hence constitute them as objects for governance, not just individually but also collectively (Calzada,
2018)? What conceptions of value(s) constitute the “urban commons”, and how do managerial ‘smart’
technologies organize them?
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These days, it has become fashionable to talk about the “urban commons”, and it’s clear why. What we
traditionally conceive of as “the public” is in retreat: public services are at the mercy of austerity
policies, public housing is being sold off and public space is increasingly non-public. In a relentlessly
neoliberal climate, the commons seems to offer an alternative to the battle between public and private.
The idea of land or services that are commonly owned and managed speaks to a 21st-century sensibility
of, to use some jargon, participative citizenship and peer-to-peer production. In theory, at least, the
commons is full of radical potential to implement social innovations in European city-regions.
Hence, the workshop will seek to better understand the idea of “urban commons” as a way to rethink
the city as a ‘commons’, as a ‘platform’ (Bollier, 2016; Borch & Kornberger, 2015; Foster & Iaione, 2016)
at different European city-regional scales, under what circumstances and contexts urban commons
emerge, what contributes to their durability and effectiveness, and what undermines them. In the
policy context entirely dominated by urban data in the realm of the so-called ‘smart city’ hegemonic
discourse, this workshop is presented as an invitation for reflecting upon and beyond the technocratic
idea of the city by reclaiming public space and urban ownership in different fields as an experimental
way to address the “urban commons" (Calzada, 2018; Labaeye, 2017) through:
• social innovation and anti-austerity public policy for generating resources through alternative
finance, harnessing social energy through grassroots mobilisation,
• and meeting needs through community provision in land use, housing and rental cooperatives,
cooperative food initiatives, etc.
The workshop will stress the importance of transitions as a new “urban commons” narrative for urban
infrastructure (housing, food, mobility, etc.), collaborative civilian empowerment, network governance,
alternative finance, urban co-operatives, energy grassroots mobilisation, data-driven
sovereignties/devolution, urban welfare, and urban development. Additionally, the workshop will focus
on questions of urban governance and will explore different frameworks for governing common urban
resources.
Hence, after consideration of the above, we should also ask whether another urban governance model
is possible, a ‘third way’ of urban experimentation between state and market (Keith & Calzada, 2017;
Keith & Calzada, 2016; Dellenbaugh et al., 2016).
The UT programme is directed and coordinated by Prof Michael Keith (Director of COMPAS & Co-
director of the Future of Cities Programme, at the University of Oxford). This is the final workshop of
the series ‘Bridging European Urban Transformations 2016-2018’. To conclude, this workshop series:
• aimed to bring about academics and non-academics to reflect on urban challenges affecting
cities and regions in Europe.
• emphasized an interdisciplinary dialogue, bridged the gap between theory and practice, and
encouraged knowledge exchange between academics, policymakers, citizens, and activists.
• built on the first, second, third, and fourth Brussels workshop of the ESRC Urban
Transformations programme and formed part of a series of interventions in partnership.
Here are the executive summaries of the previous workshops:
• 1st
Workshop ‘(Un)Plugging Data in Smart City-Regions’ (#UnpluggingData):
http://www.urbantransformations.ox.ac.uk/blog/2016/unplugging-data-in-smart-city-regions-
bridging-european-urban-transformations-esrc-workshop-series-european-smart-citizens-as-decision-
makers-rather-than-data-providers
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• 2nd
Workshop ‘Experimenting Urban Living Labs (ULLs) Beyond Smart City-Regions’
(#ExperimentingULL):
http://www.urbantransformations.ox.ac.uk/blog/2017/european-urban-living-labs-as-experimental-
city-to-city-learning-platforms/
• 3rd
Workshop ‘Scaling Migration Through European City-Regions’ (#ScalingMigration):
http://www.urbantransformations.ox.ac.uk/event/scaling-migration-through-the-european-city-
regions/
Hence, building on the emerging body of ongoing initiatives, the workshop Rethinking the Urban
Commons in European City-Regions will bring together a group of European academics and
policymakers to reflect on and debate about the potential of the “urban commons” and social
innovation through European cities and regions.
This workshop considers the participation of a broad scope of participants, such as activists, policy-
makers, academics, companies, social entrepreneurs, and citizens to react upon the challenges
austerity policies are posing in our European cities and regions by not only overcoming side effects of
the lack of a comprehensive governance framework but also empowering city-to-city learning in order
to remodel Europe through its cities and regions.
Programme:
This one-day workshop commences with an introduction from Prof Michael Keith, co-ordinator of the
Urban Transformations ESRC portfolio, and Prof Bas van Heur, co-ordinator of the Brussels Centre for
Urban Studies. This will be followed by six slots and speakers who are experts in the field: three from
the Urban Transformations ESRC portfolio projects and three from the VUB.
If you are interested in participating in the workshop please register to the workshop via Evenbrite:
https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/rethinking-the-urban-commons-in-european-city-regions-tickets-
41603618543
For further questions, please contact the coordinator directly: igor.calzada@compas.ox.ac.uk
This workshop builds on the first, second and third Brussels workshop of the ESRC Urban
Transformations programme and forms part of a series of interventions in partnership. The workshop
series entitled ‘Bridging European Urban Transformations’.
Coordination:
• Dr Igor Calzada, MBA (UOxf-UT)
www.igorcalzada.com/about
@icalzada & igor.calzada@compas.ox.ac.uk
• Prof Bas Van Heur (VUB-BCUS)
@basvanheur & bvheur@vub.ac.be