Cómo los estudiantes españoles podemos conectarnos y asociarnos fuera de nuestra tierra? ¿Qué iniciativas podríamos lanzar para mejorar España? ¿Por qué emprender nos es más fácil aquí que allí? ¿Qué podríamos exportar de este sistema universitario?... Seguro que estas y otras muchas...
Piper Auditorium | Harvard Graduate School of Design | 48 Quincy Street | Gund Hall | Cambridge, MA
During the last decade, emigration in Spain has increased very significantly. The moment of emancipation of the best-prepared generation in the country’s history has sadly coincided with a deep economic crisis. This coincidence has forced many well educated young people to seek new opportunities out of the country.
The persistence of the crisis explains that many of those who left the country with a transitory experience in mind have actually extended their stay abroad for an indefinite period of time. Some studies are already discussing the so-called network effect, which refers to...
Room 109, Gund Hall, 48 Quincy Street, Cambridge, MA 02138
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Professor Eduardo Prieto discusses the currents now being explored by 'energy aesthetics' and draws attention to the risks of succumbing to a new kind of functionalism, an environmental one.
Eduardo Prieto is a registered architect in Spain and...
Gropius Room, Gund Hall, 48 Quincy Street, Cambridge, MA 02138
In asking “what is it to be?”, philosophy has traditionally bumped into space. What is philosophical about space? It has been said: space is that in which beings come to be; or one of the main ways of predication through which we talk about beings; or it has also been said that one of the two fundamental ways of being is to be spatial; or that we cannot perceive or know beings without space. Thus space has not been merely understood as something else among the things that are, but as something that belongs to the answer of the philosophical question–“what is it to be?” So to exist,...
This lecture will try to answer how decisive the EU Competition Policy will be in the following years, given the deep changes in European Economies caused by the technological and social transformations. It will present the ongoing main issues in the EU Commission competition agenda from a wider historical perspective.
Joaquín Almunia Former Vice President and Commissioner for Competition, European Commission...
In an increasing number of countries across the OECD, the current economic crisis has brought back the Great Recession phantom, putting the European Welfare State in danger. The gap between the wealthiest citizens and middle and working class is growing up. Furthermore it seems that the latter ones will be even worse off than they are now in the coming years. This fact will dramatically influence the future of Europe even if macroeconomic indicators improve. Structural measures should be taken in order to change this path. The poor quality of the public debate and the lack of available...