QUO VADIS, GDANSK? Citizens are planning their cities

The project financed by EEA Grants and Norway Grants Program "Citizens for Democracy".

The project Quo vadis, Gdansk? The residents plan their city was involving participatory, strategic planning for improvement of the public space quality in the districts of Gdansk. An innovative work technique for cooperation of the planners and the local community was developed as an answer to the main current problems in Polish neoliberal urban planning reality – residual cooperation competence resultant from a low social capital; asymmetries in knowledge; lack of experience in genuine socialization of the planning process. A work technique realized through a method of the so-called Urban Mentoring, using a planning tool: the so-called microstrategy of improving the public space quality.

The project was prepared on the participatory, strategic planning of the public space quality of the non-tourist districts of Gdansk. The intention aimed at cooperation of the community (the district council) with the professionals who professionally are not affiliated with the city administration was realized in 2014-15, as part of the “The citizens for Democracy” program, financed by the European Economic Area. Cooperation of the district councils of four districts of Gdansk with the consortium of the Gdansk Foundation of Social Innovation and the Faculties of the Gdansk University of Technology and the Sopot University of Applied Sciences, supported by professional local design bureaus BPBK SA, DOM, BUMC, enabled practical verification (implementation) of the theoretical working models.

Multidisciplinary CORE Research team
  • Przemysław Kluz, Msc – project manager GEFiS
  • Associate Prof. Justyna Martyniuk-Peczek, Ph.D., D.Sc., Architect – project manager 
  • Assistant Professor Gabriela Rembarz, Ph.D., Architect
  • Barbara Zgórska, Msc Architect
  • Barbara Marchwicka, Msc Architect
  • Agnieszka Jurecka Msc Architect

Partners in the project


The outcomes of the project

http://www.mojaorunia.pl/images/poradnik/qv_orunia_final.pdf
http://www.osowa.com/images/grafiki/1043.pdf
http://www.mojaorunia.pl/images/poradnik/qv_ujescisko_final.pdf
http://prostydesign.pl/art/Mikrostrategia%20Wrzeszcza%20Gr.pdf

Publications
  • Martyniuk-Pęczek J., Rembarz G. The public space in the area of participatory strategic planning. Quad Vadis, Gdansk? Citizens are planning their cities, GFIS, WAPG, SSW (open source)
    https://arch.pg.edu.pl/documents/10613/38907635/QVGdn__www_%20lekka.pdf
    https://arch.pg.edu.pl/documents/10613/38907635/QVGdn__www_%20lekka.pdf
  • Martyniuk-Pęczek J., Rembarz G.: The Urban Mentoring as a New Method of Participatory Urban Planning in Poland, in: World Multidisciplinary Civil Engineering-Architecture-Urban Planning Symposium (WMCAUS), 2016, ELSEVIER SCIENCE BV
    http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1877705816328697
  • Rembarz G., Martyniuk-Peczek J., 2016, Strengthening the local communities' competence for engaging in participatory planning in: Czasopismo Sopockiej Szkoły Wyższej Przestrzeń, Ekonomia, Społeczenstwo no. 10 II 2016
  • Rembarz G., Martyniuk-Peczek J.,  2016, Urban mentoring jako nowa technika wspolpracy w procesie planowania partycypacyjnego in: Lorens P. (red): Wybrane zagadnienia rewitalizacji miast w kontekscie przemian spoleczno-gospodarczych (Selected Issues in Revitalization of Cities in the Context of Socio-Economic Changes), Biuletyn KPZK PAN ZESZYT 264, pp. 119-145