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6th Creative Bureaucracy Festival - June 15th 2023
Every year over 1,000 international participants from government, politics, civil society and other change-making organisations join each other to share and celebrate outstanding examples of innovative public administrations. The 6th Creative Bureaucracy Festival took place on 15 June 2023 in Berlin. In 73 sessions, more than 150 speakers from more than 30 countries have presented innovative solutions for the administration of tomorrow: faster digitalisation, strategies for comprehensive equality, a more skilled work force, and better coordination of collective action on the biggest challenges of our time.
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Civil servants about risk-taking in innovation
From building doughnut coalitions to migrant advisory boards; City Clerk Peter Teesink speaks together wit other leading municipal innovators about methodologies for turning moonshots into reality. Creative Bureaucracy Festival, Amsterdam.
Amsterdam has a long history in innovation. Living below sea-level requires structural innovation in collaboration and innovation in technology. Being a densely populated trading nation the need to be innovative is omnipresent in Dutch society. For municipalities this is a challenge. On the one hand a municipality needs to offer trustworthy services, and on the other hand the municipality needs to embrace innovation for keeping the feet dry and the fridge full.
This session focusses on this tension between administration, control and management versus the informal, self-organizing and creative dynamic of innovation. Three Amsterdam civil servants present their remarkable innovations and discuss tactics and strategies for surviving this potentially dangerous dynamic for personal careers. Peter Teesink, director of the City of Amsterdam and responsible for guiding the city in this dynamic, takes part in the conversation that follows. Prof. Dr. Caroline Nevejan, Chief Science Officer of the City of Amsterdam, will give a short introduction on the innovative character of Amsterdam, before she will moderate the conversation.
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Caroline Nevejan (Chief Science Officer, City of Amsterdam)
Peter Teesink (City Clerk, City of Amsterdam)
Eveline Jonkhoff (Strategic advisor and program manager circular economy, City of Amsterdam)
Eddy Adusei (Area Manager, City of Amsterdam)
Sabina Kekic (Advisor on EU-affairs, City of Amsterdam)Source:
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On this website you will find many more interesting sessions.
For example:- CO-CREATING THE CITY - DOES IT WORK IN PRACTICE? From support mechanisms for civic initiatives, to participatory budgeting and direct democracy. Which co-creation tools really work?
- LEARNING FROM... DISORDER How can we regulate, design and facilitate what cannot be anticipated but will surely improve our cities?
- THE CITY AFTER COVID Placemaking for recovery
- CO-CREATING ACTIVE & JUST DEMOCRACIES: A HOW TO A cross-cultural exploration of practical methodologies for bringing new forms of democracy to life.
- CO-CREATING THE CITY - DOES IT WORK IN PRACTICE? From support mechanisms for civic initiatives, to participatory budgeting and direct democracy. Which co-creation tools really work?
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Time for Creative Bureaucracy
The two words ‘creative’ and ‘bureaucracy’ do not seem to fit together, but maybe they do. It sends a message to all our civil servants that they too can be makers, shapers and co- creators of a more agile and responsive bureaucracy. It hopes to spark their imagination. Taking a helicopter of public administrations across the world we can detect a movement of change in the making. Over the last 15 years a public sector innovation ecosystem is emerging.
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Book 1: The origins & future of the creative city
The city faces an escalating crisis that cannot be solved by a ‘business as usual’ approach, including the challenge of living together with great diversity and difference, addressing the sustainability agenda, rethinking its role and purpose to survive well economically, culturally and socially and to manage increasing complexity. These are some of the future priorities for creativity. Creativity needs to address the issues that really matter globally.
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Source: Landry C. 2012. The origins futures of the creative city. Comedia. ISBN: 978-1-908777-00-3
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Book 2: The sensory landscape of cities
This is the second in a series of short publications, which seek to briefly encapsulate key agendas and thought movements that shape cities today and will have an impact on their future. The city is a communications device. It speaks to us through every fibre of its being. The lived urban experience comes from a circular sensory cycle. The Sensory Landscape of Cities, sees the city as a 360-degree, enveloping, immersive experience, which has emotional and psychological impacts. It argues that we sense, feel and understand it through increasingly narrow funnels of perception.
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Source: Landry, C. 2012. The sensory landscape of cities. Comedia. ISBN: 978-1-908777-01-0
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Book 3: The creative city index
The Creative City Index assesses the creative pulse of places by exploring their urban dynamics, processes and projects. It differs from most indexes by looking at the city as an integrated whole from an insider and outsider perspective through a series of ten broad crosscutting domains.
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Source: Landry, C., & Hyams, J. 2012. The creative city index: measuring the pulse of the city. Comedia. ISBN: 978-1-908777-02-07
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Book 4: Culture & Commerce
Culture and commerce co-exist in creative tension. Their values and aims can be sharply opposed. There is a need to find the fragile balance. This is true for culture in both the big sense, such as our wish to remain true to ourselves, and the narrower sense of expression through the arts. The desire for artistic integrity can conflict with the exigencies of the market.
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Source: Landry, C. 2013. Culture & Commerce: The royal academy & Mayfair. Comedia. ISBN: 978-1-908777-03-4
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Book 5: The fragile city & the risk nexus
Cities are the most complex artefact created by human beings and their most significant investment. They make civilisations manifest. They drive cultures, they embody their values and are crucial to development. Cities are hubs of creativity and potential. They are accelerators of opportunity, force feeding transactions and connections. Skills, talent and expertise cluster in them as do trade, commerce and industries.
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Source: Landry, C., & Burke T. 2014. The fragiel city & the risk nexus. ISBN: 978-1-908777-04-1
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Book 7: The Digitized City
The digitized city is already with us, but it needs a jointly created vision of where next. Digitization represents a tectonic shift providing computing with an immense force. Its devices are changing society and social life, culture, levels of connectivity, the economy as well as cities. These devices are both liberating and potentially invasive.
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Source: Landry, C. 2016. The Digitzed City: influence & impact. ISBN: 978-1- 908777-06-5
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Book 8: Psychology & the city
Being in a city is a two-way psychological process. The city impacts upon our mind — our mental and emotional state impacts upon the city. This is part of a constant cycle of influencing and being influenced, perpetual transactions changing moment to moment as our daily lived experience unfolds, with repercussions both for us and for the city in ways we cannot always be aware of.
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Source: Landry, C., & Murray C. 2017. Psychology & the city: the hidden dimension. Comedia. ISBN: 978-1-908777-07-2
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Book 9: The Creative Bureaucracy
Public bureaucracies across the globe face a converging, escalating crisis. Our societies are increasingly unequal. The population is ageing and they have fewer resources to respond to the growing need for care services. Demands for affordable living conditions are increasing as public space declines. Frenzied finance movements are rattling domestic economies. Mass migration is engendering fear and uncertainty. This accounts for some sudden and dangerous responses to overcome the effects of a turbo-charged capitalism.
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Source: Landry, C., & Caust M. 2017. The Creative Bureaucracy and its radical common sense. Comedia. ISBN: 978-1-908777-08-9