Bezpieczne gimnazjum. Wytyczne programowo-badawcze w oparciu o realizację małopolskiego programu szkoła promująca bezpieczeństwo

The paper provides a summary of" the two-year research work conducted in Małopolska Region within the "Sale Grain mar-School" program. The program is of social character, comprehensive. The parties of the experiment are: school superintendent's office, police, teachers, parents, schoolboy autonomy and experts: architects, sociologists and psychologists. Dangerous factors and places have been determined by identification of a threat problem and followed by an indication of solutions - substantial design and usable guiding rules. The guiding rules have been to some extent inspired by the Dutch program "Vcilig Woncn" ("Live Safely"), though the final effect is an entirely original work, adjusted to Polish conditions. The goal of the project is to create a transparent space, to enable "social observation", to make the space more readable, to stimulate the spatial order, to re-establish social bonds within the school and between the school and the housing estate. In the elaboration we have concentrated upon selected issues. We have discussed problems encountered on the way to school, associated with the school sports Held -which may give rise to youth centres in the housing estate, and other issues such as: corridor spaces transformed into spaces for integration, the cloak rooms as places particularly dangerous in school, intentionally to be made friendlier. We have presented methods of preventing devastation and graffiti (so called broken windows syndrome (Kelling, Coles 2000), and discussed the necessity of fast intervention - damage and harm liquidation. The school may become a link which influences the surroundings, increasing the safety level in the neighbouring residence areas. A safe school actually indicates a safe housing estate.