Paper given in the XVII International Congress of the European Committee for Sport History (CESH), Barcelona 22 November 2013. Paper raises some challenging issues on the need to create awareness and to invest in preserving and disseminating the memory of sport events as part of the cultural and historical heritage of cities, by sharing the experience of the project Barcelona Olimpica, based and resulting from the history and memory of a key and unique moment in Catalan sport history: the Barcelona'92 Olympic Games
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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
9. 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.
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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.
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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
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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.
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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.
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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