Joanna Sanetra-Szeliga
Joanna Sanetra-Szeliga is working for the International Cultural Centre of Krakow
presentation: Culture and Economy - a possible dialogue about new policy measures
category: Culture and Economy
abstract
In the past years many cities have chosen cultural and art projects as
ways of stimulating development and urban regeneration. One of the most
known examples is the regeneration of Bilbao, including such flagship
projects like the Guggenheim Museum, the Euskalduna Congress and Music
Hall, which turned a crumbling industrial centre into a flourishing
city ready for the new millennium challenge. Another great example here
would be Glasgow, which is one of the few European Capitals of Culture
associated with broad transformation and successful culture-led
regeneration programme – to some extend a benchmark for all the other
cities. The presentation will try to answer the following questions in
this context. What makes some cities more successful than the other in
implementing culture-led development plans? Why in some cities cultural
events have a great impact on the development? In the case of Kraków,
unlike Glasgow, the title of European Capital of Culture had little
influence on the city’s condition. What went wrong? In the first years
of Polish membership in the EU there were 217 culture-related projected
financed within the European structural funds. What could contribute to
their success? One of the answers would be municipalities having a
coherent plan for a city’s development including all sectors and their
awareness of the delicate culture and heritage problems.
CV
Joanna Sanetra-Szeliga, graduate of the Cracow University Economics, major in European Studies. In 2002-2005 member of the Culture Contact Point in Poland staff (Ministry of Culture). Since 2003 coordinator of the Culture 2000 programme in Poland, since 2005 unit coordinator in the European Affairs Unit in the Department of Culture Strategy and European Affairs in the Ministry of Culture. Currently: European funds specialist in the International Cultural Centre in Krakow, CCP trainer, University lecturer.
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