2012, “Participatory Urban Culture – Nodes and Flows” (Polish Ministry of Culture and National Heritage)

I served as a principal investigator and a research team leader.

The project was carried out within the framework of the Observatory of Culture programme run by Polish Ministry of Culture and National Heritage, in cooperation with Małopolska Cultural Institute, project no. 05159/12 DMP.

The project aimed to capture the non-formalized or formalised only partially practices of participation in urban culture, especially the alternative trends in Kraków.

Cultural participation has been conceptualised in the context of social communication, and the processes of mediatization which are the activities picked up by the networks of friends and acquaintances, which creates the flows of information and activity in urban space. Another important research goal of the project was to apprehend the junction points (the localisations where most of the cultural events have been carried out) as well as the flows and links between them.

Within the project, I coordinated the methodology of the research and the research team. I have also edited the final report available in the open access as the separate online publication. I presented the outcomes of the project at TEDxKraków in 2014 (YouTube clip includes the short description in English).

The outputs of the project were presented at: 

2013, Communication and the City (Voices, Spaces, Media), University of Leeds  (a paper “Nodes and flows of Kraków urban cultural life”, co-presenter: dr Magdalena Zdrodowska).

Publications:

(In Polish, a report) Spacerowicze, nomadzi i sieciowi łowcy okazji (raport z badań), Małopolski Instytut Kultury, Kraków 2012.