Efekt Bilbao w Polsce? Katowicka Strefa Kultury jak Abandoibarra, czyli baskijskość i śląskość w procesie rewitalizacji

• Authors: Joanna Orzechowska-Wacławska

Title variants

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The Bilbao effect in Poland? Katowicka Strefa Kultury like Abandoibarra, Basque-ness and Silesia-ness in the revitalisation process

Abstracts

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This article is a contribution to the discussion on the cityscaping role of new institutions of culture created recently in Poland. The paper focuses on the Sphere of Culture (Strefa Kultury) in Katowice which was launched in 2015. The reference point is provided by Abandoibarra in Bilbao. The author compares two flagship revitalisation projects, undertaken in Katowice and Bilbao, containing the most emblematic buildings housing cultural institutions. The juxtaposition of Katowice and Bilbao is a result of the particular place of Bilbao, which for many years has been recognised as a blueprint for a successful revitalisation process, and a number of similarities of these two cities such as their industrial past, their pivotal positions in their capacity as regional mining centres, the stigma of industrial cities and their strong regional/national identity. The analysis shows that in the cultural dimension, both – the Sphere of Culture and Abandoibarra – are embedded in the local ethos and they endorse regional traditions; however, in terms of the social resonance created by institutions located there, these two places are diametrically different. The Sphere of Culture, contrary to Abandoibarra, due to its monofunctional character, its spatial separation from other city districts and promoting car journeys as a main transport mode, in its current form does not completely fulfil its potential and does not allow those establishments located there to become ‘propagators’ of city-ness.

• Publisher: Narodowe Centrum Kultury
• Journal: Kultura Współczesna. Teoria. Interpretacje. Praktyka
• Year: 2017
• Volume: 98
• Issue: 5
• Pages: 108-123

Contributors

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Joanna Orzechowska-Wacławska

Identifiers

DOI

10.26112/kw.2017.98.08

Biblioteka Nauki

1848449