Barcelona Olímpica : a knowledge platform for olympic history of Barcelona

www.barcelonaolimpica.net

Presentation
Berta Cerezuela

Head of Projects
Olympic Studies Centre, UAB


Barcelona, a model
“The Barcelona Games were in a class of their own. Their
vision to put sport at the heart of an ambitious
transformation that changed the fortunes of the city and its
people was inspired. Our task now is to take the best of
Barcelona and build upon it’.
Lord Coe, Chair of LOCOG

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The Games, the pretext
“Any city grows on the base of specific
platforms, special projects or “pretexts”
around which you can articulate the big
proposal of change”
Pasqual Maragall
Major of Barcelona
1986, before nomination

“All those involved … in the decision-making
process knew that the Games were clearly a
sporting event. I confess without shame,
however, that this did not concern us, since
what mattered … was to determine the
dominating idea that would allow us to do in
five or six years what had not been done in
fifty, with the risk of taking another fifty if the
opportunity was not taken”
Josep Miquel Abad
COOB’92 CEO
1995


The legacy strategy
ECONOMY

Calvo, 2011


Barcelona, an Olympic city


Intangible legacies
INFORMATION
INFORMATION
&&
KNOWLEDGE
KNOWLEDGE

EDUCATION
EDUCATION

MEMORY
MEMORY


Intangible legacies

EDUCATION
EDUCATION

Olympic and sport related educational programmes
should be included a key asset of the memory legacy,
closely link to legacy institutions.


Intangible legacies

INFORMATION
INFORMATION
&
&
KNOWLEDGE
KNOWLEDGE

Creation, capture and management of the information
and knowledge generated from and about the event,
not only as part of the event corporate management,
but more with a longer-term perspective.

Intangible legacies

MEMORY
MEMORY

Actions to allow the development of a collective
memory and engage a debate in an Olympics city in
the post-Games period, helping to define the games in
the history and public life of a city.


Barcelona’92 intangible legacies
Impact studies
International Chair in Olympism (IOC-UAB)
Games consultants
Archive transfers
10th Anniversary
Impact studies
Strategic Sports Plan

The Games
Election

Barcelona
Olimpica

1986

1989

1992 1993

1995

2002

2007

Olympic Studies Centre UAB
Next Games edition
Barcelona Olympic Foundation
First anniversary
Official report

Olympic and Sport
Museum Barcelona

2012


Devoted to preserve and disseminate the olympic and sport memory
of the city, and to support olympic and sport studies

Barcelona, pioneer city and reference on maximizing and managing the
intangible legacy of the Olympic games and other sport events.


Our vision
“facilitate open access to information and knowledge on the
Barcelona’92 Olympic Games and the Olympic and sport history of the city.”

OBJECTS
OBJECTS

(documents)
(documents)

FACTS
FACTS

HISTORY
HISTORY

EXPERIENCE
EXPERIENCE


6 key elements
1. Institutional collaboration: promotion and design.
2. Unity: knowledge sources of the Barcelona’92 Olympic Games.
3. International and digital user.
4. Coordinate management of the collection and services.
5. Knowledge transfer services to other cities and organising committees.
6. Platform for dissemination activities on the Olympic Games and sport.


Unique collection

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11.000 books
180 journal titles
6.300 videos
240.600 photographs
45ml press clippings
6ml research documents
11.929 boxes of records
30.103 maps and plans

J.A. Samaranch Collection
The President of the International
Olympic Committee, Juan Antonio
Samaranch, donated a section of his
personal library on sport and Olympism
to the Barcelona Olympic Foundation.
This important collection, which includes
over 5000 titles, has been complemented
by works on his life and person.


Our work
We give response to queries from experts and general public, but mainly targetting
researchers, educators and professionals in the field of sport and olympic studies.


3 languages: CAT | SPA | ENG

3 areas: Barcelona’92
Olympism
Sport
Social networks
#barcelonaolimpica
http://www.barcelonaolimpica.net


BARCELONA’92

TIMELINE
TIMELINE

SPACES
SPACES

PEOPLE
PEOPLE

TOPICS
TOPICS


BARCELONA’92
Contents:
Facts
E-documents
Bibliography
Images
Archival collection
More information
•Reference service
•Collection full catalogue



OLYMPISM
The Olympic Games
Olympic Movement
Spanish Olympic Bid
Popular Olympiad 1936


SPORT
Barcelona Sport Events
BCN 2013 FINA, XGames..

Barcelona sport history

1955 Mediterranean Games

Sport organisations and personal
archives
Don Balon, Motor Club Catalunya..


Food4Thought
 Key moments in the timing of intangible legacy
 Stakeholder approach
 Coordinated and planned strategy
 Guardians of the intangible legacy
 Key activities: research, education, preservation, display, memory construction
 Key actors: museums, universities, archives, workforce


Food4Thought
Investing in the educational, information and
knowledge and memory elements of the events
legacy should be seen as an asset for leveraging
the post event impact and should be included as
part of the core legacy management

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