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Operation City Alliance Operation City (former Alliance for the Centre for Independent Culture and Youth – SZC) was established with the aim of encouraging the development of independent culture and self-organized activity of young people. Its activities, linked to the cultural and youth policies in Zagreb, first took place through the collaborative platform of independent cultural organizations Zagreb – European Capital of Culture 3000. The platform was launched in 2003 by Centre for Drama Arts, Multimedia Institute, Platforma 9.81, and What, How and for Whom / WHW, and was later joined by the Shadow Casters, [BLOK], Community Art, and Kontejner. Before 2005, the platform primarily focused on programme cooperation and afterwards increasingly on the effects of municipal policy on the cultural production and position of youth organizations in Zagreb. Thus, in spring 2005, together with the clubs MaMa, Močvara, and Attack, as well as two national networks: Clubture Network and Croatian Youth Network, it initiated a public debate on the key issues in these sectors. The public debate resulted in a Declaration, which was among others signed by the present mayor of Zagreb, Milan Bandić, who promised nine measures relevant to the problem of facilities, the implementation of the Municipal Programme of Activities for Young People, and the sustainability of independent cultural and youth organizations. However, as almost no measures were eventually implemented, in July 2006 the platform performed an action of crossing out jumbo posters with the mayor’s face with the aim of drawing attention to the impossible situation of independent and youth cultures in Zagreb. The action was followed by an intensification of this advocacy initiative and the separation of its activities in two directions: (1) activities related to urban development and spatial policy (Right to the City) and (2) activities related to the needs of independent cultural and youth sectors. Within this second direction, the cooperation was formalized by establishing an alliance of association with the name Alliance for the Centre for Independent Culture and Youth, later changed to Alliance Operation City. After years of endorsement efforts, in 2009 the Alliance and the City of Zagreb founded POGON – Zagreb Centre for Independent Culture and Youth. Since the foundation of POGON, members of Multimedia Institute have been actively helping stabilize both entities through the work of its members in the Managing Board, by organizing the Alliance’s activities as volunteers, and through the work of Tomislav Medak in the Programme Board of POGON in the period from 2010-2012.
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Zagovarački rad Pretpostavka za promjenu strukturnih uvjeta funkcioniranja organizacija civilnog društva, a onda i nezavisne kulture je suradnja, umrežavanje i zajedničko javno djelovanje. Multimedijalni institut sustavno radi na iniciranju, pokretanju i kapacitiranju suradnji, inicijativa, platformi i mreža na razini Zagreba, Hrvatske, postjugoslavenske regije i šire Europe. Iz tih su aktivnosti u proteklih deset godina nastale mreža Clubture, Operacija grad, Pravo na grad i Kooperativa – Regionalna platforma za kulturu. Partnerstva i umrežavanja u okviru ovih platformi usmjerena su ili na programsku suradnju ili na izgradnju zajedničkih resursa, promjenu javnih politika ili društveni angažman. Riječ je o platformama koje nisu ustrojene članski i reprezentativno već dinamično – kao inkluzivne i suradničke, zagovaračke i programske platforme temeljene na uzajamnom povjerenju i zajedničkim ciljevima: stvaranje poticajnog javno-političkog okvira ili pozitivne promjene u društvenom kontekstu. Neke od njih primarno okupljaju organizacije nezavisne kulture, dok neke grade partnerstva s akterima iz drugih podsektora: mladih, zaštite okoliša, prostornih politika. Svaka od ovih platformi razvila se u samostalnog i značajnog aktera na hrvatskoj civilnoj sceni. Među najvažnijim postignućima ovih suradničkih platformi je osnivanje dvije institucije. Prva je Pogon – Zagrebački centar za nezavisnu kulturu i mlade, utemeljen na novom modelu civilno-javnog partnerstva kojim zajednički upravljaju Savez udruga Operacija grad i Grad Zagreb. Temeljni ciljevi Pogona su osigurati prostor i adekvatne uvjete za produkciju i prezentaciju suvremenih kulturnih i umjetničkih programa zagrebačke nezavisne kulturne scene, kao i za programe organizacija civilnog društva koji potiču aktivno uključivanje mladih u kulturni i društveni život. Druga institucija ja Zaklada Kultura nova, prva javna zaklada u polju kulture usmjerena podupiranju rada organizacija nezavisne kulture.