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.
The document summarizes a workshop on smart cities held in Brussels that brought together academics and practitioners from across Europe. The workshop focused on unpacking the "smart cities" paradigm and defining the interconnections between technology infrastructure and broader social and economic systems. Key topics discussed included new approaches to data collection and usage that empower citizens, challenges around data ownership and privacy, and the need for more participatory approaches to technology development that involve citizens as decision-makers. The workshop highlighted the importance of collaborative research across disciplines and borders to help optimize the social impacts of new technologies and guide cities towards a more equitable future.
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 through lighthouse (large scale demonstration - first of the kind) projects), one of the most competitive in the program.
REPLICATE aims to increase the quality of life for citizens across Europe by demonstrating the impact of innovative technologies used to co-create smart city services with citizens, and prove the optimal process for replicating successes within cities and across cities.
In particular, Dr. Igor Calzada (PhD), MBA, will lead – as the person in charge of the project from the University of Oxford, experts in smart city replication strategies and implementions –, the WP8 Replication which will contribute to innovative solutions and methodologies in the field of city-to-city learning and benchmarking. In particular, the strategic and ethnographic analysis will take account of the lessons learnt by the ongoing ESRC Urban Transformation portfolio. Similarly, the replication and adaptability plans of the follower, lighthouse and observer cities will be based on the policy transfer and knowledge exchange foundations that the Future of Cities programme and the ESRC Urban Transformations portfolio is currently developing.
The Statuto Train Station in Florence is currently underused and partially abandoned. COSPE NGO is leading a renovation program to turn it into a city hub for responsible tourism. This will encourage positive interaction between tourists, the local community, and travelers. Bike transport is a key topic as it provides benefits like reduced costs, pollution, and congestion. ASF Toscana is focusing on accessibility issues for people with physical impairments. They are partnering to develop and distribute a handcycle that allows wheelchair users to ride without transferring. ASF Toscana is also launching a social design initiative to create an open source platform for sharing knowledge about bamboo craftsmanship and its application for adaptive bikes and vehicles for
This document provides an in-depth summary and analysis of the 1987 science fiction novel "Antibodies" by David J. Skal. The novel explores themes of technology, disembodiment, and the relationship between humans and machines. It tells the story of a woman who joins a cult that believes the body is dispensable and seeks to fully integrate with technology. The document discusses how the novel examines issues of identity, humanity's relationship with emerging technologies, and different visions of a potential posthuman future. It also analyzes the novel's portrayal of these themes and how they relate to broader discussions in philosophy and science fiction around the topics of the body, technology, and what it means to be human.
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.
A presentation delivered in Brussels on 13th february 2017 International Evidence Review 'Experimenting with Urban Living Labs (ULLs) beyond Smart City-Regions'
Here is the full reference:
Calzada, I. & Cobo, C. (2015), Unplugging: Deconstructing the Smart City, Journal of Urban Technology. DOI: 10.1080/10630732.2014.971535. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/10630732.2014.971535
This is an Author's Original Manuscript of an article published by Taylor & Francis in the JOURNAL OF URBAN TECHNOLOGY on March 16, 2015, available online: http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/10630732.2014.971535#abstract
DOI: 10.1080/10630732.2014.971535
This version will be shared on author’s personal website ONLY.
This article may not exactly replicate the final version published in this journal.
It is not the copy of record.
is innovation in cities a matter of knowledge intensive servicesSiti Khatizah Aziz
This article investigates the relationship between the presence of large cities in a region, the region's industrial structure, and its innovative performance. It analyzes data on regional innovation in European countries based on surveys, and classifies regions by their industrial specialization and urban/rural characteristics. The descriptive results suggest regions with large urban areas tend to be more innovative, and innovation is particularly high in regions specialized in knowledge-intensive services. Regions with both advanced manufacturing and knowledge-intensive services show synergistic effects that further boost innovation. The study aims to provide empirical evidence on how different industrial mixes and urbanization relate to various types of regional innovation.
The document summarizes a workshop on smart cities held in Brussels that brought together academics and practitioners from across Europe. The workshop focused on unpacking the "smart cities" paradigm and defining the interconnections between technology infrastructure and broader social and economic systems. Key topics discussed included new approaches to data collection and usage that empower citizens, challenges around data ownership and privacy, and the need for more participatory approaches to technology development that involve citizens as decision-makers. The workshop highlighted the importance of collaborative research across disciplines and borders to help optimize the social impacts of new technologies and guide cities towards a more equitable future.
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 through lighthouse (large scale demonstration - first of the kind) projects), one of the most competitive in the program.
REPLICATE aims to increase the quality of life for citizens across Europe by demonstrating the impact of innovative technologies used to co-create smart city services with citizens, and prove the optimal process for replicating successes within cities and across cities.
In particular, Dr. Igor Calzada (PhD), MBA, will lead – as the person in charge of the project from the University of Oxford, experts in smart city replication strategies and implementions –, the WP8 Replication which will contribute to innovative solutions and methodologies in the field of city-to-city learning and benchmarking. In particular, the strategic and ethnographic analysis will take account of the lessons learnt by the ongoing ESRC Urban Transformation portfolio. Similarly, the replication and adaptability plans of the follower, lighthouse and observer cities will be based on the policy transfer and knowledge exchange foundations that the Future of Cities programme and the ESRC Urban Transformations portfolio is currently developing.
The Statuto Train Station in Florence is currently underused and partially abandoned. COSPE NGO is leading a renovation program to turn it into a city hub for responsible tourism. This will encourage positive interaction between tourists, the local community, and travelers. Bike transport is a key topic as it provides benefits like reduced costs, pollution, and congestion. ASF Toscana is focusing on accessibility issues for people with physical impairments. They are partnering to develop and distribute a handcycle that allows wheelchair users to ride without transferring. ASF Toscana is also launching a social design initiative to create an open source platform for sharing knowledge about bamboo craftsmanship and its application for adaptive bikes and vehicles for
This document provides an in-depth summary and analysis of the 1987 science fiction novel "Antibodies" by David J. Skal. The novel explores themes of technology, disembodiment, and the relationship between humans and machines. It tells the story of a woman who joins a cult that believes the body is dispensable and seeks to fully integrate with technology. The document discusses how the novel examines issues of identity, humanity's relationship with emerging technologies, and different visions of a potential posthuman future. It also analyzes the novel's portrayal of these themes and how they relate to broader discussions in philosophy and science fiction around the topics of the body, technology, and what it means to be human.
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.
A presentation delivered in Brussels on 13th february 2017 International Evidence Review 'Experimenting with Urban Living Labs (ULLs) beyond Smart City-Regions'
Here is the full reference:
Calzada, I. & Cobo, C. (2015), Unplugging: Deconstructing the Smart City, Journal of Urban Technology. DOI: 10.1080/10630732.2014.971535. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/10630732.2014.971535
This is an Author's Original Manuscript of an article published by Taylor & Francis in the JOURNAL OF URBAN TECHNOLOGY on March 16, 2015, available online: http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/10630732.2014.971535#abstract
DOI: 10.1080/10630732.2014.971535
This version will be shared on author’s personal website ONLY.
This article may not exactly replicate the final version published in this journal.
It is not the copy of record.
is innovation in cities a matter of knowledge intensive servicesSiti Khatizah Aziz
This article investigates the relationship between the presence of large cities in a region, the region's industrial structure, and its innovative performance. It analyzes data on regional innovation in European countries based on surveys, and classifies regions by their industrial specialization and urban/rural characteristics. The descriptive results suggest regions with large urban areas tend to be more innovative, and innovation is particularly high in regions specialized in knowledge-intensive services. Regions with both advanced manufacturing and knowledge-intensive services show synergistic effects that further boost innovation. The study aims to provide empirical evidence on how different industrial mixes and urbanization relate to various types of regional innovation.
The document describes 8 problems from an exam on semiconductors. Problem 1 calculates the quantity of metals extracted from various minerals per metric ton. Problem 2 determines film thicknesses and vapor requirements for solid-solid reactions forming InSb, CuSbS2, and CuInSe2. Problem 3 proposes emission lines that could be observed in EDS spectra of the reactants and products. Problem 4 estimates missing values in the reaction Cu + Fe + 2S → CuFeS2 and sketches the expected XRD pattern.
The stuffed animals held a party at the library after hours, getting into mischief like putting on a puppet show, throwing a birthday party, watching TV and playing video games. They explored the library, using the computers, photocopier, and checking out the kitchen, until it was time to quiet down and sleep, dreaming of all the fun they had.
Este documento presenta una breve lista de tres elementos: una descripción del análisis explícito de los métodos de razonamiento, una indicación de que dicho análisis fue utilizado primeramente en la antigua China, la antigua India y la antigua Grecia, y los nombres de tres personas.
La Corte Penal Internacional tiene como objetivo evitar la impunidad de los crímenes más graves como el genocidio, los crímenes de lesa humanidad, los crímenes de guerra y el crimen de agresión. La Corte es permanente y subsidiaria a la jurisdicción nacional, juzgando sólo cuando los tribunales nacionales no tienen la capacidad o voluntad de hacerlo. La Corte define estos crímenes y establece que tiene jurisdicción cuando se cometen en territorio de un Estado miembro o si el Estado no miembro a
El presente trabajo presenta la posibilidad de instalación de una central generadora a base de energía fotovoltaica, con un presupuesto inicial de $1, 000,000.00 (un millón) USD, en el trabajo se abarcan los siguientes puntos:
• La ubicación de la central en México.
• El tipo de terreno en el que se instalara.
• El tipo de tecnología que utilizara la planta para producir energía eléctrica.
• El acceso a las líneas de transmisión.
• El tiempo de desarrollo de la planta.
• El presupuesto con base en los costos iniciales.
• Los permisos que deberá obtener como central generadora.
• El precio de venta de la energía.
• El costo de operación.
A Axyon é uma distribuidora especializada nos segmentos de segurança, TI, telecom e automação predial que possui mais de 1.200 revendedores ativas em todo o Brasil. A empresa oferece treinamentos para parceiros e possui um portfólio completo de produtos e soluções nas áreas de segurança, telecom, rede/infraestrutura e automação predial. A Axyon tem cobertura nacional e capacidade para atender projetos de grande porte em diversos setores.
Waianae rescue dogs 40 and under 2.14.17Suzy M. Tam
This document lists 10 rescue dogs available from Waianae that are 40 pounds or under. It provides each dog's ID number, gender, and weight, with weights ranging from 11 to 36 pounds. The majority of the dogs listed are between 15 to 35 pounds.
Las ciencias naturales y experimentales estudian los fenómenos naturales a través de la observación y experimentación. Incluyen disciplinas como la física, la química, la biología y la geología. Estas ciencias utilizan el método científico para formular y probar hipótesis mediante experimentos y observaciones sistemáticas.
La Academia de Matemáticas es una institución dedicada a la enseñanza y el estudio de las matemáticas. Ofrece cursos para estudiantes de diferentes niveles en temas como álgebra, geometría, cálculo y estadística. Su objetivo es promover el aprendizaje y el avance de las matemáticas a través de la educación.
Heidy Juliana Archila es el nombre de una persona y Murcia1102 parece ser algún tipo de identificador o código asociado con esa persona. El documento proporciona muy poca información sobre el tema.
Presentación Informe Anual ONU Derechos Humanos Colombia año 2016difusionhchr
El documento resume las actividades de la Oficina del Alto Comisionado de las Naciones Unidas para los Derechos Humanos en Colombia en 2016, incluyendo su trabajo para apoyar la implementación del Acuerdo de Paz, proteger a los defensores de derechos humanos, y promover los derechos económicos, sociales y culturales de las comunidades afectadas por el conflicto.
O documento resume três julgados do STF sobre Direito Processual Penal e Direito Administrativo. No primeiro caso, o Plenário negou provimento a agravo regimental em reclamação sobre prisão preventiva. No segundo caso, a Segunda Turma negou provimento em reclamação sobre foro por prerrogativa de função. No terceiro caso, o STF entendeu que a aposentadoria compulsória não se aplica a titulares de serventias judiciais não estatizadas.
Einstiegsreferat an der ICT Kadervernetzung 2017 in Wil zum Thema CSUnplugged. Wie kann die Informatik ohne Computer an der Schule unterrichtet werden?
This document is an introduction from an adult education guide created by the Londer Learning Center to help facilitate low-literacy adults in participating in a community-wide book reading of Fahrenheit 451. It provides an overview of literacy issues in the US, with over 20% of adults reading at a 5th grade level or below. The guide is intended to provide educators with pre-reading, during reading, and post-reading activities and materials to make reading Fahrenheit 451 more accessible for low-literacy learners, such as providing historical context, vocabulary support, and discussion questions. It also includes a table of contents outlining the various parts and activities in the guide.
Este documento describe diferentes tipos de memoria RAM, incluyendo SDR, DDR, DDR2, DDR3 y DDR4. SDR fue la primera especificación publicada en 2000. DDR mejoró el ancho de banda al transferir datos en ambas direcciones en un ciclo. DDR2 transfiere 4 bits por ciclo, duplicando la velocidad nominal. DDR3 tiene 240 pines y es físicamente incompatible con DDR2. DDR4 fue lanzada en 2014 junto con nuevos chipsets y placas base, y también se usa en teléfonos m
House on Mango Street Adult Education Guide 2008Cheyenne Tuller
This document provides an introduction and recommendations for using an adult education guide created to help low-level adult readers participate in a community book reading project of The House on Mango Street. It was created by staff at the Donald H. Londer Learning Center in Portland, Oregon for a 2005 reading event. The guide divides the book into themes, provides vocabulary lists and activities for each section, and offers tips for making the reading accessible for adults with literacy challenges. The goal is to help more community members be included in the book discussion through planning and background materials.
Es la cultura, ¿una herramienta de innovación? O es la innovación, ¿una herramienta de la cultura?
Este aparente oxímoron, muestra la ‘limitada’ instrumentalización con la que la gestión cultural ha podido operar, y perder así, consciente o inconscientemente, su enorme potencial de transformación social y urbana tras los recortes de la austeridad postcrisis 2008. La ponencia pretende posicionar el papel central de la cultura, su gestión y su intrínseca y demandada innovación, en el centro del debate tecno-político contemporáneo a nivel estatal y europeo. En plena irrupción del dataismo en las industrias culturales y creativas, el papel transformador de la cultura debe ser articulado desde las políticas públicas en barrios, pueblos, ciudades y regiones españolas basadas en la diversidad y la singularidad, más allá del café-para-todos, fomentando un pensamiento crítico, una desobediencia tecnológica, un emprendizaje cooperativo, un consumo responsable y sostenible, en última instancia, una ciudadanía con capacidad de decidir y hacer cultura, con capacidad de hacer ciudad, transformándola en definitiva. En conclusión, si bien la era del acceso (digital) nos abrió inmensas posibilidades para innovar, la actual era post-truth nos deja abiertas muchas más incognitas, que más que a esperar a ver sus consecuencias, nos envía señales inequívocas para que fabriquemos una cultura inclusiva, despierta y abierta; única esperanza (si cabe) para que desde el nivel (trans-)local se articule el binomio innovación + cultura, en clave de empatía democrática y experimental interna en conexión permanente con el contexto de creciente interdependencia global externa.
The document summarizes a presentation given by Olga Gil comparing citizen participation in smart city plans in various cities around the world, including Shanghai, Japan, Iskandar, New York, Amsterdam, and Tarragona. It discusses the scope, definitions, theoretical framework, hypothesis, and variables in Gil's model for comparing citizen participation. Key findings include that Amsterdam had the highest level of citizen participation and confirmation of the hypothesis that differentiated smart city plans lead to differences in urban governance models. Challenges discussed include bridging gaps between policymakers, businesses, and citizens in participatory projects.
New individuals, new creative groups, and new collaborative networks get organized to “reconquer” public spaces – spatially, physically and politically. They can be temporary or permanent, physical or immaterial, spontaneous or organized. A factor of importance is that they are initiated by non-institutional actors who are trying to invent, experiment, stimulate processes, programmes, uses, and social interactions within public spaces.
The document describes 8 problems from an exam on semiconductors. Problem 1 calculates the quantity of metals extracted from various minerals per metric ton. Problem 2 determines film thicknesses and vapor requirements for solid-solid reactions forming InSb, CuSbS2, and CuInSe2. Problem 3 proposes emission lines that could be observed in EDS spectra of the reactants and products. Problem 4 estimates missing values in the reaction Cu + Fe + 2S → CuFeS2 and sketches the expected XRD pattern.
The stuffed animals held a party at the library after hours, getting into mischief like putting on a puppet show, throwing a birthday party, watching TV and playing video games. They explored the library, using the computers, photocopier, and checking out the kitchen, until it was time to quiet down and sleep, dreaming of all the fun they had.
Este documento presenta una breve lista de tres elementos: una descripción del análisis explícito de los métodos de razonamiento, una indicación de que dicho análisis fue utilizado primeramente en la antigua China, la antigua India y la antigua Grecia, y los nombres de tres personas.
La Corte Penal Internacional tiene como objetivo evitar la impunidad de los crímenes más graves como el genocidio, los crímenes de lesa humanidad, los crímenes de guerra y el crimen de agresión. La Corte es permanente y subsidiaria a la jurisdicción nacional, juzgando sólo cuando los tribunales nacionales no tienen la capacidad o voluntad de hacerlo. La Corte define estos crímenes y establece que tiene jurisdicción cuando se cometen en territorio de un Estado miembro o si el Estado no miembro a
El presente trabajo presenta la posibilidad de instalación de una central generadora a base de energía fotovoltaica, con un presupuesto inicial de $1, 000,000.00 (un millón) USD, en el trabajo se abarcan los siguientes puntos:
• La ubicación de la central en México.
• El tipo de terreno en el que se instalara.
• El tipo de tecnología que utilizara la planta para producir energía eléctrica.
• El acceso a las líneas de transmisión.
• El tiempo de desarrollo de la planta.
• El presupuesto con base en los costos iniciales.
• Los permisos que deberá obtener como central generadora.
• El precio de venta de la energía.
• El costo de operación.
A Axyon é uma distribuidora especializada nos segmentos de segurança, TI, telecom e automação predial que possui mais de 1.200 revendedores ativas em todo o Brasil. A empresa oferece treinamentos para parceiros e possui um portfólio completo de produtos e soluções nas áreas de segurança, telecom, rede/infraestrutura e automação predial. A Axyon tem cobertura nacional e capacidade para atender projetos de grande porte em diversos setores.
Waianae rescue dogs 40 and under 2.14.17Suzy M. Tam
This document lists 10 rescue dogs available from Waianae that are 40 pounds or under. It provides each dog's ID number, gender, and weight, with weights ranging from 11 to 36 pounds. The majority of the dogs listed are between 15 to 35 pounds.
Las ciencias naturales y experimentales estudian los fenómenos naturales a través de la observación y experimentación. Incluyen disciplinas como la física, la química, la biología y la geología. Estas ciencias utilizan el método científico para formular y probar hipótesis mediante experimentos y observaciones sistemáticas.
La Academia de Matemáticas es una institución dedicada a la enseñanza y el estudio de las matemáticas. Ofrece cursos para estudiantes de diferentes niveles en temas como álgebra, geometría, cálculo y estadística. Su objetivo es promover el aprendizaje y el avance de las matemáticas a través de la educación.
Heidy Juliana Archila es el nombre de una persona y Murcia1102 parece ser algún tipo de identificador o código asociado con esa persona. El documento proporciona muy poca información sobre el tema.
Presentación Informe Anual ONU Derechos Humanos Colombia año 2016difusionhchr
El documento resume las actividades de la Oficina del Alto Comisionado de las Naciones Unidas para los Derechos Humanos en Colombia en 2016, incluyendo su trabajo para apoyar la implementación del Acuerdo de Paz, proteger a los defensores de derechos humanos, y promover los derechos económicos, sociales y culturales de las comunidades afectadas por el conflicto.
O documento resume três julgados do STF sobre Direito Processual Penal e Direito Administrativo. No primeiro caso, o Plenário negou provimento a agravo regimental em reclamação sobre prisão preventiva. No segundo caso, a Segunda Turma negou provimento em reclamação sobre foro por prerrogativa de função. No terceiro caso, o STF entendeu que a aposentadoria compulsória não se aplica a titulares de serventias judiciais não estatizadas.
Einstiegsreferat an der ICT Kadervernetzung 2017 in Wil zum Thema CSUnplugged. Wie kann die Informatik ohne Computer an der Schule unterrichtet werden?
This document is an introduction from an adult education guide created by the Londer Learning Center to help facilitate low-literacy adults in participating in a community-wide book reading of Fahrenheit 451. It provides an overview of literacy issues in the US, with over 20% of adults reading at a 5th grade level or below. The guide is intended to provide educators with pre-reading, during reading, and post-reading activities and materials to make reading Fahrenheit 451 more accessible for low-literacy learners, such as providing historical context, vocabulary support, and discussion questions. It also includes a table of contents outlining the various parts and activities in the guide.
Este documento describe diferentes tipos de memoria RAM, incluyendo SDR, DDR, DDR2, DDR3 y DDR4. SDR fue la primera especificación publicada en 2000. DDR mejoró el ancho de banda al transferir datos en ambas direcciones en un ciclo. DDR2 transfiere 4 bits por ciclo, duplicando la velocidad nominal. DDR3 tiene 240 pines y es físicamente incompatible con DDR2. DDR4 fue lanzada en 2014 junto con nuevos chipsets y placas base, y también se usa en teléfonos m
House on Mango Street Adult Education Guide 2008Cheyenne Tuller
This document provides an introduction and recommendations for using an adult education guide created to help low-level adult readers participate in a community book reading project of The House on Mango Street. It was created by staff at the Donald H. Londer Learning Center in Portland, Oregon for a 2005 reading event. The guide divides the book into themes, provides vocabulary lists and activities for each section, and offers tips for making the reading accessible for adults with literacy challenges. The goal is to help more community members be included in the book discussion through planning and background materials.
Es la cultura, ¿una herramienta de innovación? O es la innovación, ¿una herramienta de la cultura?
Este aparente oxímoron, muestra la ‘limitada’ instrumentalización con la que la gestión cultural ha podido operar, y perder así, consciente o inconscientemente, su enorme potencial de transformación social y urbana tras los recortes de la austeridad postcrisis 2008. La ponencia pretende posicionar el papel central de la cultura, su gestión y su intrínseca y demandada innovación, en el centro del debate tecno-político contemporáneo a nivel estatal y europeo. En plena irrupción del dataismo en las industrias culturales y creativas, el papel transformador de la cultura debe ser articulado desde las políticas públicas en barrios, pueblos, ciudades y regiones españolas basadas en la diversidad y la singularidad, más allá del café-para-todos, fomentando un pensamiento crítico, una desobediencia tecnológica, un emprendizaje cooperativo, un consumo responsable y sostenible, en última instancia, una ciudadanía con capacidad de decidir y hacer cultura, con capacidad de hacer ciudad, transformándola en definitiva. En conclusión, si bien la era del acceso (digital) nos abrió inmensas posibilidades para innovar, la actual era post-truth nos deja abiertas muchas más incognitas, que más que a esperar a ver sus consecuencias, nos envía señales inequívocas para que fabriquemos una cultura inclusiva, despierta y abierta; única esperanza (si cabe) para que desde el nivel (trans-)local se articule el binomio innovación + cultura, en clave de empatía democrática y experimental interna en conexión permanente con el contexto de creciente interdependencia global externa.
The document summarizes a presentation given by Olga Gil comparing citizen participation in smart city plans in various cities around the world, including Shanghai, Japan, Iskandar, New York, Amsterdam, and Tarragona. It discusses the scope, definitions, theoretical framework, hypothesis, and variables in Gil's model for comparing citizen participation. Key findings include that Amsterdam had the highest level of citizen participation and confirmation of the hypothesis that differentiated smart city plans lead to differences in urban governance models. Challenges discussed include bridging gaps between policymakers, businesses, and citizens in participatory projects.
New individuals, new creative groups, and new collaborative networks get organized to “reconquer” public spaces – spatially, physically and politically. They can be temporary or permanent, physical or immaterial, spontaneous or organized. A factor of importance is that they are initiated by non-institutional actors who are trying to invent, experiment, stimulate processes, programmes, uses, and social interactions within public spaces.
Regenerative Mobility: Disruption and Urban EvolutionIEREK Press
Mobility plays an important role in the cities by enabling people to carry out the most varied activities across the territory, as well as to ensure the city fully function. In addition, analogies to the human organism can be made by this urban dynamic, looking for solutions to specific issues. Moreover, this paper has been based by the premise that phenomena and urban elements could be conceptualized, explained and transformed from contemporary and innovative approaches applied in the medical field. For this reason, this paper aims to develop and present a new concept associated with urban mobility, based on the principles of regenerative medicine: the Regenerative Mobility, a concept with disruptive and evolutionary purposes. Furthermore, the structure of this paper is summarized by the introduction which contextualizes the theme, presents and characterizes the techniques used in the research. Additionally, the following chapters explore essential aspects of the city, explaining why it needs a mobility change and new concepts. Therefore, the concept of Regenerative Mobility is presented as a potential of mobility and cities improvement, followed by pragmatic cases, capable of illustrating some of its principles.
Regenerative Mobility: Disruption and Urban EvolutionIEREK Press
Mobility plays an important role in the cities by enabling people to carry out the most varied activities across the territory, as well as to ensure the city fully function. In addition, analogies to the human organism can be made by this urban dynamic, looking for solutions to specific issues. Moreover, this paper has been based by the premise that phenomena and urban elements could be conceptualized, explained and transformed from contemporary and innovative approaches applied in the medical field. For this reason, this paper aims to develop and present a new concept associated with urban mobility, based on the principles of regenerative medicine: the Regenerative Mobility, a concept with disruptive and evolutionary purposes. Furthermore, the structure of this paper is summarized by the introduction which contextualizes the theme, presents and characterizes the techniques used in the research. Additionally, the following chapters explore essential aspects of the city, explaining why it needs a mobility change and new concepts. Therefore, the concept of Regenerative Mobility is presented as a potential of mobility and cities improvement, followed by pragmatic cases, capable of illustrating some of its principles.
The European Network of Living Labs (ENoLL) is the international federation of benchmarked Living Labs in Europe and worldwide. In the following presentation ENoLL presents what it means for cities to be Living Lab and what is the difference between Cities as Living Labs and Urban Living Labs.
Social laboratories in universities, such as Medialab UGR, are spaces for technological and social experimentation that promote innovation and impact. They serve as nexuses between academia and society through co-creation and collaboration. As centers of digital culture and social innovation, they test new technologies, educational approaches, and forms of social involvement. However, measuring their social impact poses challenges due to the plurality of actors involved and complexity in developing indicators that account for both academic and social interests.
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.
Launch conference presentation of Dr. Pietro Elisei, coordinator of the YPLAN project, on why co-designing public space is essential for the present and future wellbeing of the citizens - young and old alike.
Living Networks and Urban Labs are addressing major challenges facing cities through social innovation and citizen participation. Some key challenges mentioned include climate change, energy sustainability, and sustainable water and food supplies. Sustainable solutions require diverse knowledge and collaboration between public and private spheres. Living Labs create open ecosystems to engage stakeholders, stimulate collaboration and enable behavior transformation. ENoLL currently supports 236 European Living Labs and 38 outside of Europe, working to expand globally. Thematic subnetworks focus on issues like smart cities, health, and sustainability. ENoLL is developing a Public-Private Partnership initiative to support research, education, large-scale pilots and international collaboration to address challenges through user-driven open innovation.
Urban environments are complex systems composed of interconnected human and physical elements. Traditional urban planning methods based on rationalism and reductionism have proved inadequate in addressing this complexity. Complexity theory provides an alternative framework using concepts like complex adaptive systems, emergence, and self-organization. This paper will introduce complexity theory metaphors and discuss their application to analyzing urban areas and revising urban planning approaches to better address the evolving complexity of cities.
This editorial introduces a special issue of the journal Computers, Environment and Urban Systems focused on bottom-up computational models of urban systems. It discusses the limitations of early top-down urban simulation models and argues that a new generation of bottom-up models that capture human behavior and interactions at the micro-level are needed to better understand emergent macro patterns in cities. The special issue contains several papers that present novel agent-based and other bottom-up models exploring topics like neighborhood segregation, housing markets, spatial equilibrium, and the relationship between network connectivity and population size. The editorial argues these new bottom-up computational approaches can provide insight into the micro-foundations of human behavior that drive urban change from the bottom-up.
By 20th June 2014, Dr Calzada (Future of Cities & COMPAS) and Dr Cobo (OII) from the University of Oxford have held a Workshop titled: #Unplugging > Beyond Hyper-Connected Societies that will take place at The Oxford Research Centre in Humanities in Oxford (UK) from 13:00-16:00.
The article #Unplugging > Deconstructing the Smart City by the two authors is forthcoming.
The document summarizes an observation by the Observatory on Smart Cities at Politecnico di Milano on smart cities and cultural heritage. It provides an overview of the observatory, its methodology involving case studies, and interpretations. Specific cases discussed include 72hours urban action, Fuorisalone.it, and Urban Trekking. Key interpretations are around balancing citizens and visitors, integrating permanent and temporary uses of cultural heritage, blending physical and virtual experiences, and ensuring business models and respect for local context ('genius loci') support initiatives.
1) The document discusses how communication can contribute to social change and empowerment through bottom-up approaches that involve local communities.
2) It provides examples of projects like Dream Hamar in Norway and workshops in Ecuador that engaged communities through participatory design processes and online platforms to reimagine public spaces.
3) These tactics prioritized communication and collaboration over top-down strategies, empowering communities and contributing to locally-owned reforms.
This document provides an overview of the Living+ platform at Aalto University, which brings together multiple schools and research groups to collaborate on projects related to sustainable living environments. It outlines some past and upcoming platform activities, including strategic research calls and breakfast meetings. The agenda for an event on the Living+ platform is presented, including welcome remarks, a presentation by the deputy mayor of Helsinki on city planning, and short research group presentations. Context, working methods, and special interests of some of the participating research groups are briefly described, focusing on areas like user experience, urban planning, sustainability, architecture, and technologies to support living environments.
This document summarizes Daniela Petrillo's background and experience in design, research, and strategy. Some key points:
- She has an MSc in Interior Design from Politecnico di Milano and a PhD from the same institution, focusing on urban and social innovation.
- Her work involves design consulting, research projects, and academic roles focused on topics like urban safety, crime prevention, and community engagement.
- Examples of her projects include DesignAgainstCrime, Mapping San Siro, Human Library in Prison, and her PhD thesis Design for Urban Reassuring Scenario.
- Her approach emphasizes participatory methods, codesign, and temporary or iterative interventions to address social and
This presentation discusses the results of recent research conducted by Paskaleva on European trends on smart cities in the context of open innovation. It draws from analyses of key European Union programmes, latest international projects and related activities. The emerging new approach to open innovation is discussed that links technologies with people, the urban territory and other cities to reap the benefits of modern technological and social advance. It is suggested that using open innovation for building the smart (-er) city can be effective, efficient and sustainable but consistent frameworks, principles and strategic agendas are necessary to optimally bind these elements together.
Semelhante a Bridging European Urban Transformations ESRC Workshop Series in Brussels UT Europe 16March2017 Prof Michael Keith & Dr Igor Calzada MBA (20)
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:
https://youtube.com/watch?time_continue=1444&v=lygDohSla6g&feature=emb_logo
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.
This document provides the draft agenda for a workshop on replicating smart city solutions from the SCC1 projects in follower cities. The workshop will include sessions on the policy context of smart cities, an introduction to replication, and parallel replication workshops on low energy districts, integrated infrastructure, and urban mobility. These workshops will involve presentations from industrial and city partners, as well as discussions on overcoming barriers and the changes needed to successfully replicate smart solutions. The event aims to help follower cities learn from the successful SCC1 projects and implement similar smart city solutions.
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).
This document outlines the schedule and curriculum for a 10-day metropolitan leadership training program at MIT. Each day focuses on a different theme related to metropolitan areas and includes sessions led by instructors from MIT, the Metro Lab, the World Bank, and other organizations. The schedule provides details on session topics, times, locations, and instructors for presentations, workshops, field visits and discussions covering issues such as metropolitan environments, infrastructure, governance, and leadership.
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.
The Antyodaya Saral Haryana Portal is a pioneering initiative by the Government of Haryana aimed at providing citizens with seamless access to a wide range of government services
AHMR is an interdisciplinary peer-reviewed online journal created to encourage and facilitate the study of all aspects (socio-economic, political, legislative and developmental) of Human Mobility in Africa. Through the publication of original research, policy discussions and evidence research papers AHMR provides a comprehensive forum devoted exclusively to the analysis of contemporaneous trends, migration patterns and some of the most important migration-related issues.
Indira awas yojana housing scheme renamed as PMAYnarinav14
Indira Awas Yojana (IAY) played a significant role in addressing rural housing needs in India. It emerged as a comprehensive program for affordable housing solutions in rural areas, predating the government’s broader focus on mass housing initiatives.
United Nations World Oceans Day 2024; June 8th " Awaken new dephts".Christina Parmionova
The program will expand our perspectives and appreciation for our blue planet, build new foundations for our relationship to the ocean, and ignite a wave of action toward necessary change.
karnataka housing board schemes . all schemesnarinav14
The Karnataka government, along with the central government’s Pradhan Mantri Awas Yojana (PMAY), offers various housing schemes to cater to the diverse needs of citizens across the state. This article provides a comprehensive overview of the major housing schemes available in the Karnataka housing board for both urban and rural areas in 2024.
This report explores the significance of border towns and spaces for strengthening responses to young people on the move. In particular it explores the linkages of young people to local service centres with the aim of further developing service, protection, and support strategies for migrant children in border areas across the region. The report is based on a small-scale fieldwork study in the border towns of Chipata and Katete in Zambia conducted in July 2023. Border towns and spaces provide a rich source of information about issues related to the informal or irregular movement of young people across borders, including smuggling and trafficking. They can help build a picture of the nature and scope of the type of movement young migrants undertake and also the forms of protection available to them. Border towns and spaces also provide a lens through which we can better understand the vulnerabilities of young people on the move and, critically, the strategies they use to navigate challenges and access support.
The findings in this report highlight some of the key factors shaping the experiences and vulnerabilities of young people on the move – particularly their proximity to border spaces and how this affects the risks that they face. The report describes strategies that young people on the move employ to remain below the radar of visibility to state and non-state actors due to fear of arrest, detention, and deportation while also trying to keep themselves safe and access support in border towns. These strategies of (in)visibility provide a way to protect themselves yet at the same time also heighten some of the risks young people face as their vulnerabilities are not always recognised by those who could offer support.
In this report we show that the realities and challenges of life and migration in this region and in Zambia need to be better understood for support to be strengthened and tuned to meet the specific needs of young people on the move. This includes understanding the role of state and non-state stakeholders, the impact of laws and policies and, critically, the experiences of the young people themselves. We provide recommendations for immediate action, recommendations for programming to support young people on the move in the two towns that would reduce risk for young people in this area, and recommendations for longer term policy advocacy.
UN WOD 2024 will take us on a journey of discovery through the ocean's vastness, tapping into the wisdom and expertise of global policy-makers, scientists, managers, thought leaders, and artists to awaken new depths of understanding, compassion, collaboration and commitment for the ocean and all it sustains. The program will expand our perspectives and appreciation for our blue planet, build new foundations for our relationship to the ocean, and ignite a wave of action toward necessary change.
RFP for Reno's Community Assistance CenterThis Is Reno
Property appraisals completed in May for downtown Reno’s Community Assistance and Triage Centers (CAC) reveal that repairing the buildings to bring them back into service would cost an estimated $10.1 million—nearly four times the amount previously reported by city staff.
How To Cultivate Community Affinity Throughout The Generosity JourneyAggregage
This session will dive into how to create rich generosity experiences that foster long-lasting relationships. You’ll walk away with actionable insights to redefine how you engage with your supporters — emphasizing trust, engagement, and community!
Jennifer Schaus and Associates hosts a complimentary webinar series on The FAR in 2024. Join the webinars on Wednesdays and Fridays at noon, eastern.
Recordings are on YouTube and the company website.
https://www.youtube.com/@jenniferschaus/videos
Combined Illegal, Unregulated and Unreported (IUU) Vessel List.Christina Parmionova
The best available, up-to-date information on all fishing and related vessels that appear on the illegal, unregulated, and unreported (IUU) fishing vessel lists published by Regional Fisheries Management Organisations (RFMOs) and related organisations. The aim of the site is to improve the effectiveness of the original IUU lists as a tool for a wide variety of stakeholders to better understand and combat illegal fishing and broader fisheries crime.
To date, the following regional organisations maintain or share lists of vessels that have been found to carry out or support IUU fishing within their own or adjacent convention areas and/or species of competence:
Commission for the Conservation of Antarctic Marine Living Resources (CCAMLR)
Commission for the Conservation of Southern Bluefin Tuna (CCSBT)
General Fisheries Commission for the Mediterranean (GFCM)
Inter-American Tropical Tuna Commission (IATTC)
International Commission for the Conservation of Atlantic Tunas (ICCAT)
Indian Ocean Tuna Commission (IOTC)
Northwest Atlantic Fisheries Organisation (NAFO)
North East Atlantic Fisheries Commission (NEAFC)
North Pacific Fisheries Commission (NPFC)
South East Atlantic Fisheries Organisation (SEAFO)
South Pacific Regional Fisheries Management Organisation (SPRFMO)
Southern Indian Ocean Fisheries Agreement (SIOFA)
Western and Central Pacific Fisheries Commission (WCPFC)
The Combined IUU Fishing Vessel List merges all these sources into one list that provides a single reference point to identify whether a vessel is currently IUU listed. Vessels that have been IUU listed in the past and subsequently delisted (for example because of a change in ownership, or because the vessel is no longer in service) are also retained on the site, so that the site contains a full historic record of IUU listed fishing vessels.
Unlike the IUU lists published on individual RFMO websites, which may update vessel details infrequently or not at all, the Combined IUU Fishing Vessel List is kept up to date with the best available information regarding changes to vessel identity, flag state, ownership, location, and operations.
Combined Illegal, Unregulated and Unreported (IUU) Vessel List.
Bridging European Urban Transformations ESRC Workshop Series in Brussels UT Europe 16March2017 Prof Michael Keith & Dr Igor Calzada MBA
1. BRIDGING EUROPEAN URBAN TRANSFORMATIONS
ESRC WORKSHOP SERIES 2016-2017 IN BRUSSELS:
2ND
WORKSHOP:
EXPERIMENTING WITH URBAN LIVING LABS (ULL)
BEYOND SMART CITY-REGIONS WORKSHOP
(13TH
FEBRUARY 2017, BRUSSELS)
EUROPEAN URBAN LIVING LABS AS
EXPERIMENTAL CITY-TO-CITY LEARNING PLATFORMS
Published online: March 17, 2017
http://www.urbantransformations.ox.ac.uk/blog/2017/…
To cite this article:
Keith, M. & Calzada, I. (2017), European Living Labs as Experimental City-to-City Learning Platforms,
Urban Transformations ESRC report on 13th February 2017 Workshop entitled ‘Experimenting with Urban
Living Labs (ULLs) Beyond Smart City-Regions‘. DOI: 10.13140/RG.2.2.20968.47361.
Authors:
Professor Michael Keith and Dr Igor Calzada, MBA
Urban Transformations ESRC, University of Oxford
2. 2
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.
The workshop Experimenting Urban Living Labs (ULLs) Beyond Smart City-Regions explored potential
transitions, feasible pathways, and missing links between the smart cities paradigm and the experimental
urban living lab approach. Despite the underlying critical discussion from academia regarding the
technocratic discourse derived from the smart city mainstream policy agenda, the workshop facilitated not
only a critical but also a constructive collective joint reflection by European academics and regional policy-
makers examining the potential of the ‘lab’ concept. The workshop considered how the ‘living lab’ approach
might nuance technocratic framings of the ‘smart city’ and open up more democratic and open systems of
making cities.
In this sense how we make the future visible might be as significant as the ways in which we make the future
possible. The former might emphasise a greater sense of choice, trade offs, uncertainties and conflicts. The
latter might emphasise a greater sense of determinism, efficiency and inevitability. The former might
foreground ethical choices, the latter technological drivers. Social science needs to bridge the normative
logics of the former and the analytical logics of the latter. In this context the workshop asked how the notion
of the living lab might differ from some of the ideas of the smart cities paradigm that has strongly influenced
research and innovation funding in recent years.
So then, in what ways are ‘living labs,’ as the new experimental initiatives from the applied social sciences,
the right—or at least, a feasible— kind and/or scale of intervention? According to Spilhaus (1964:1141), ‘the
city is a completely interacting system and thus, the experiment must be a total system. Nobody knows the
answers to city living in the future, and, when answers are unknown, experiment is essential.’ The notion of
the city as a space of experimentation can morph easily into a particular way of seeing the urban. Gillian
Rose has argued in an Urban Transformations blog that followed the workshop that ‘the whole notion of a
“lab” on the face of it continues that commitment to technocratic solutions to urban challenges.’
The notion of ULLs is normally credited to Professor William Mitchell from the Massachusetts Institute of
Technology (MIT). MIT Living Labs aimed to bring “together interdisciplinary experts to develop, deploy,
and test—in actual living environments—new technologies and strategies for design that respond to this
changing world”. People from the world outside were to be invited into living laboratories where
ethnographers and other researchers observed how they used newly invented information technology.
Popularised in the USA the notion generated particular traction in Europe as diverse practices complicated
what different actors considered the lab concept to involve. There have been numerous attempts to define
what a ULLs is, but there is no firm consensus in the literature. We see living labs as innovation platforms
where the stakeholders develop and exchange ideas in a community. According to the European Network of
Living Labs (ENoLL), ULL projects present active user involvement, real-life settings, multi-stakeholder
participation, multi-method approaches, and co-creation. The workshop showcased how various projects
within the ESRC Urban Transformations portfolio were experiencing an experimental laboratory turn in how
they organize research and policy. This transition from smart to experimental approach is partly due to a
response to a fragmented discourse on sustainability. As such, the concept of the ULL emerges as an
approach to speed up socio-technological innovation involving stakeholders in co-production processes.
Nevertheless, the workshop concluded with an open question: Ultimately, what will the implications of ULLs
be for society and for research?
3. 3
Two policy professionals set up the dicussion of the workshop by prioritising an understanding in the
democratic dimensions of urban experimentation. Richard Tuffs is the director of the European Regions
Research and Innovation Network (ERRIN), a platform that connects academics and practitioners in diverse
research fields within the European regions. He introduced the workshop, emphasising regional leadership of
the Basque region in the EU, particularly through two H2020-Smart Cities and Communities projects:
Replicate and SmartEnCity, led by St. Sebastian and Vitoria respectively. Tuffs particularly emphasized the
key value of citizen science via ULLs for the current socio-economic development of the European regions,
given the importance that engaging citizens in specific action domains has for their local communities.
Thereafter, Tuija Hirvikoski, the president of the European Network of Living Labs (ENoLL), elaborated on
the history and definitions of living labs. In her opinion, the core challenge was how to engage citizens in the
innovation and research in the urban and regional agenda decision-making process. In a nutshell, ENoLL
considers that ULLs are forms of collective urban governance that can positively influence our European
communities via citizens engagement. Some critical voices advocated, by contrast, that such a notion of cities
as labs or as smart are much easier to support in places with long histories of social democracy and welfare
state. Thus, context-and-culturally-driven ULL experimental designs seemed to be required for broader and
more comprehensive interventions.
The three thematic discussions and the whole workshop were led by eight fundamental questions as follows:
1. What does inter-disciplinary integrating place-making mean? How can we bring together expertise
in areas such as computing, mapping, politics, economy, digital anthropology, spatial analysis, and
urban planning?
2. What are the roles of the private sector, public authorities, academia, civil society, and
entrepreneurs/activists in these ULL initiatives? What should the roles be? In the policy literature
these configurations are known as ‘helix’ formations. How can we deal with these multi-stakeholder
‘helix strategies’?
3. How can ULLs, as a form of collective urban governance, positively influence the smart policy
agenda in Europe by going beyond its governance implications?
4. What makes the ULL approach attractive and novel?
5. How are ULL initiatives being operationalised in contemporary urban governance for sustainability
and low carbon cities?
6. What prospects are there for alternative funding and business models for cities and regions in
Europe?
7. What are the practical and political interventions needed within multi-stakeholder approaches, and
what are the potential concerns about data technopolitics?
8. Is another urban governance model possible, a ‘third way’ of urban experimentation between state
and market?
4. 4
In order to address these open questions, the workshop was broken down into three themes: first, considering
the ULLs and smart cities in the making; second, comparing ULLs and smart city cases; and finally, moving
towards experimental cities.
In the first thematic discussion, addressing urban sustainability transitions between smart cities in the making
and ULLs, Prof Simon Marvin (Director of the Urban Institute at the University of Sheffield) from the GUST
ESRC-funded project, presented the context that is producing ULL experiments everywhere via JPI Urban
Europe and H2020 projects. According to Marvin, there are three types of ULLs that we could find in real
interventions: strategic, civic, and organic ULLs. As such, what makes ULLs distinct are the place-explicit
(urban) focus and the fact that they experiment with future solutions through different modes of change.
Following Prof Marvin, Prof Gillian Rose (Professor of Cultural Geography at the Open University),
presented the ESRC-funded project entitled Smart Cities in the Making: Learning from Milton Keynes. She
suggested that currently, although local community and citizen participation is repeatedly asserted to be a
prerequisite for a successful smart city, very little is known about how the development and roll-out of smart
policies and technologies actually engages city residents, workers, and visitors. Rose elucidated on the
importance of including conflict and culturally-observed urban experiments in the notion of smartness.
The second thematic discussion showcased two projects that intertwined smart city and ULL approaches: on
the one hand, Nicola da Schio from the VUB/Cosmopolis presented a JPI-funded SmarterLabs project, and
on the other hand, Dr Nicola Headlam from the Urban Transformations programme at the University of
Oxford discussed the ‘urban living global challenge.’ Despite having a different orientations and purposes,
both presentations highlighted the contribution of the ULLs as a new collaborative institutional settings to
solve urban problems. The first project focused on the environmental politics of air pollution by reflecting on
the different modes of citizen engagement in the different locations of the project, including Santander
(Spain), Istanbul (Turkey), Helsinki (Finland), Maastricht (Netherland), Graz (Austria), Brussels (Belgium),
and Bellinzona (Switzerland). The second project presented an overview of a desk research project on urban
living global challenge made up of two forthcoming reports elaborated by the Urban Transformations ESRC
programme: ‘The Urban Lens: Research Ecosystem, Innovation and Interdisciplinary Research’ and
‘Comparative International Urban and Living Labs’.
In the final thematic strand of the workshop, a recent book entitled ‘The Experimental City’ was presented by
one of its co-editors and a co-author. The first speaker, Dr Andrew Karvonen from the KTH in Stockholm,
delivered a talk on the ‘politics of monitoring, assessing and scaling.’ In order to establish a link between the
smart city policy interventions and the potential of the experimental city, the speaker elaborated on a former
participation of an EU funded H2020-Smart Cities and Communities lighthouse project called ‘Triangulum’.
According to the speaker, after participating in an H2020 Smart City lighthouse project, there are three
unanswered questions from the technopolitical perspective of European policy making: who determines the
scope of experimentation?; who monitors and assesses the experiments?; and how are the insights scaled up
and rolled out? As a consequence of these provocative questions, the debate was developed around the
diverse critical implications of urban politics in growing numbers of smart city interventions. However, very
little constructive policy advice was offered to link up the mainstream notion of smart city policy-making
processes with more experimentally-driven and laboratory-based experiments. Finally, Dr Federico
Curugullo from the TCD in Dublin provided a metaphoric narrative based on the ‘Frankenstein city’ idea in
order to explain why the smart cities are these days examples of patchworked or de-composed urbanism.
5. 5
The workshop curated a rich debate regarding urban interventions. An implicit commitment to the
democratisation of the experimental turn in urban policy at the workshop was not always matched by a
practical prescription of the means and mechanisms for simultaneously safeguarding citizen interest and
promoting progressive change. This opens up an interesting domain of future research questions. In critical
discourse ‘smartness’ may not be very appealing, while the ethical rules of the experimental have yet to be
established. Meanwhile the pluralisation of experimental labs structured by private sector interests are less
open to research scrutinity, demand a return on capital investment and yet engage in diverse ways with city
government implementation and public regulation. Likewise, culturally diverse contexts of collaboration and
co-operation across Europe in cities such as Bilbao and Barcelona generate interesting niches in soial and
economic innovation that demand further scrutiny. It might also be useful to explore how the Scandinavian
social democratic traditions that attempt to reconcile public interest and private sector motivation compare
with more free market alternatives in structuring the logics of the experimental city.
In this light discussion at the workshop considered new roles of local authorities in fostering public
innovation and procurement, or even, new governance of the urban commons as a way to overcome the
simplistic separation between the state and the market. In fact, many experiments are going on by shifting the
‘smart’ trend that has so far been hegemonic. Cities and regions in Europe are embracing alternatives and
experimental uncertain methodologies based on urban living labs to mind the gaps left by techno-rational
smart city failures. Optimistically we might hope that sooner rather than later the experimental trend will take
the lead in favour of more sophisticated and democratically powerful transformative alliances that will
encourage a city-to-city learning among European regions and cities. It could be not just a matter of time but
also a matter of connecting experiments and labs around Europe as a new way to learning from each other.
ESRC investments and collaborative links in Brussels at the workshop emphasized how urban laboratories
could complement new methodologies and tools to reorient research and policy interventions. Nevertheless,
urban political questions remain unanswered regarding the multi-stakeholders’ interdependencies and related
interventions. This workshop opened up a transition from the smartness to the experimental by connecting
different cases around Europe. It represented another small step forward in connecting the public interest
with rigorous research and democratic policy-making.
The ‘Bridging European Urban Transformations ESRC Workshop Series,‘ organised by the Urban
Transformations network in partnership with the Brussels Centre for Urban Studies, Cosmopolis and
Brussels Academy at the Vrije Universiteit Brussel, will be held in Brussels until the end of 2017. The next
session, in partnership with VUB-Brussels Centre for Urban Studies, will be held on 12 June 2017 at
the Maisson des Cultures in Brussels.
Registration (RSVP): https://www.eventbrite.com/