Some quick notes on recent news.
PUBLIC SPEAKING
Confirmed agenda within the next months:
- SAN SEBASTIÁN. Workshop: How to create efficient structures to manage knowledge cities (May 28th ). Know Cities european project final conference
- ROME. Human Smart Cities. Round table: Co-design for Social Creativity (May 29th). Forum PA/PERIPHÈRIA final conference
Latest talks:
- New trends in urban economies in a permanent meanwhile (May 8th.). University of Valencia.
- Urbanism as enabler of social transformations. Congress: Future of cities, accessibility and mobility (April 29th). Spanish Federation of Municipalities and Provinces, Granada
- Temporary uses for vacant spaces: potentials and limitations. Workshop on temporary uses for vacant spaces (April 18th). Barcelona Province Council.
- Financing and managing urban actions in the new local economic context (February 18th). Urban Environment Observatory. Málaga
COMMISSIONED PROJECTS
- SMART CITY EXPO WORLD CONGRESS BARCELONA. Supporting the Smart City Expo World Congress with contents and advice in their online communication strategy.
- TABAKALERA INTERNATIONAL CONTEMPORARY CULTURE CENTRE. Supporting a cultural institution to integrate the use of public spaces in their production and exhibition activities.
- BARCELONA PROVINCE GOVERNMENT. A consultancy programme to help municipalities to put into practice activities on adaptive urbanism to reactivate abandoned sites and underused public facilities and private premises.
NEW PROSPECTS
- New member of the STEERING COMMITTEE of the Smart City Exhibition Bologna 2013.
- New member of the ADVISORY BOARD of URBAN IxD EU project.
- Working on a proposal to launch a CIVIC MEDIA platform and its related activities.
- Working on a proposal to curate an EXHIBITION on smart cities in daily life.
- Member of the community of experts of LATERAL THINKING FACTORY.
- Finding clients to develop a project to use open data mapping tool to build a local economic observatory with EIXOS.CAT.
- New contributing writer for COMPARTE INNOVACIÓN by Philips.
BLOGGING
- La ciudad a pie de calle
- Catalogando espacios en desuso con open data
- Urban Catalyst. The power of temporary use
- Majority report: claves del éxito de las herramientas de la democracia digital
- La escala humana según Gehl Architects
- Londres de día: todos al centro
- Repensando la superficie dedicada al coche
- Batallitas Kotkin vs. Florida
- The promises of open data and the same old conflicts
- China urbanizada 1992-2010
- La ciencia de las ciudades desde lo cotidiano
- Code/Space. Software and everyday life
- Decoding how cities work: street level observations
- La Cantine, Paris Capitale Startup, o cómo favorecer ecosistemas emprendedores
