The Hillerød model

Bridging, Networking and Co-production as (SSP-)Collaboration

Abstract

This article explores an alternative collaborative crime preventive strategy, called “the Hillerød-model”. It is the result of a 5-year-long practice research project between researchers, professionals and a variety of multi-positioned participants from Hillerød, Denmark. Local communities such as a Street-Lab, the residential living area of Hillerød Øst, and an alternative community-building-practice in the village of Skævinge are explored as different locations and communities being parts of an alternative (SSP)-collaboration. The letters ‘SSP’ stands for school, social work, and police. We employ parentheses to shift focus to the collaborative practices of bridging and community-building rather than crime prevention. In this article, which is co-authored by three researchers and the local head of SSP in Hillerød, we explore how ‘the Hillerød-model’ is co-produced as an alternative within and across different communities and participants, including the Danish Minister of Justice, the Mayor of Hillerød, differently multi-positioned professionals, as well as children and parents struggling in marginalized positions. At the same time, the article seeks to develop an ontology of a counter-hegemonic transformative collaborative alternative by analyzing these processes of linking, bridging, bonding and belonging as collective brokering and coproductions of connections and collaborations within and across the different communities, contexts, and participants. Thereby, we describe a counterhegemonic alternative of community-building practice within and across different communities where people on the margins participate in coproducing so-called ‘common third activities’ together with parties from established and hegemonic practices.

Keywords: 
Community building, Bridging, Linking, Co-production, Alternative SSP Collaboration, Counter-hegemonic Alternative.