OPEN CIRCUIT

Recently there have appeared a publication "Open Circiut. Urban cross-sector partnerships" edited by Sylwia Borkowska (graduate student of EUROREG) and Ewa Zielinska (a sociology PhD student). EUROREG is co-publisher of the book.

EUROREG had a large contribution to its launch: it is co-publisher of the book, PhD Adam Płoszaj is the author of one of the chapters, and PhD Karol Olejniczak is its scientific reviewer.

The book is available free of charge under the Creative Commons Licence: Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivatives 3.0 Poland and can be downloaded HERE.

The publication is a collection of theoretical texts and case studies of cooperation between business, administration, science and civil sector in the context of cities. Its main point the editors describe as follows:

Today, different pieces of an "urban puzzle" are in the possession of many different sectors or organizations. Each of them tries to submit their piece, but they cannot build the whole that would solve the problem. You can not see the full picture, and the potential which has the puzzle is never noticed. Even if attempts are made to cooperate, it often appears in such a way that individual organizations put its piece on its own table and then communicate to each other, what they see in the picture. The problem is they do it in completely different languages. Sometimes they do not even have a structured and arranged their part, that is why cooperation with them is extremely difficult - they do not know what they have. Each has its own method of assembling a puzzle, working time or way to segregate pieces, so different organizations can not arrange the puzzle at the same time. They do not trust each other enough to share some of the table and put puzzles together, sharing the responsibility for the final result, and ownership of what uprising. Cross-sector partnership can be a way of stacking puzzle in such a way that the image becomes a complete and that closed circuits - slowly begin to open. (From the introduction)

Contents:

PART I Introduction to the subject of cross-sector partnerships

Sylwia Borkowska, C ross-sector partnerships in scientific concepts and legal framework
Ewa Zielińska, Wicked problems of participation in urban planning
Adam Płoszaj, Cross-sector partnerships and selected problems of Polish cities

PART II Case studies

Artur Jerzy Filip, Linear partnership in action: Warsaw Way to Culture on Skarpa
Barbara Lewenstein, S olving the social conflict around public space. A partnership project in Warsaw district Ochota.
Marcin Skrzypek, Around Design Thinking. Future of a Lublin district – inhabitants perspective
Wiesław Gdowicz, “Design on the ground”. Cooperation between the academy and local administration.
Michał Beim, Civic sector: increasing women’s participation in transport systems planning – a Freiburg’s case study
Marcin Górecki, Eliza Gryszko, Micro partnerships for accessibility
Marcin Czubala, Macro partnership. Cross-sector cooperation within the “Youth in Action“ program
Monika Kordek, Partnership as a tool for development. Integrated Territorial Investments and development of a city and its functional area – experiences of Warsaw

PART III Business' point of view on cross-sector cooperation

Sylwia Borkowska, Interview with Bartosz Stodulski, chief executive in Laboratorium EE
Sylwia Borkowska, Out-door gyms as an example of partnership CSR project. Business as an initiator of changes in Warsaw public space. Conversation with Mariola Suszczewicz about “Color Power” project.

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open circuit pdf.pdf (1.4 MB)

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