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Call for Participation

Calling all Creative Bureaucrats and allies at all levels!

The call for participation 2022 is now closed!

Our call to become part of this year’s Festival programme is now officially closed. Thank you to everyone who has sent us their nominations. We are overwhelmed by the great response! Our festival jury will now get to work and we will get in contact with everyone who has submitted a nomination or who got nominated by 22 February 2022.

Every year the Creative Bureaucracy Festival offers a platform for the multitude of unsung heroes across the globe, and puts new ideas in the spotlight. 

To help make the year 2022 the celebration that creative bureaucracies deserve, we were asking Creative Bureaucrats and allies at all levels to nominate their projects, initiatives, organisations, researches, colleagues, partners or innovative groundbreaking ideas within ten different topics to become part of our programme at the online Digital Kick-Off Day on Thu, 24 March 2022 (online) and at the Creative Bureaucracy Festival on Thu, 2 June 2022 (live on stage in Berlin).

How to submit a proposal?

The Call for Participation ran between 16 December 2021 – 3 February 2022 and is now closed. Information on how to take part in the process for 2023 will follow later this year.

Every year we are asking for help to find Creative Bureaucrats across the globe and celebrate their achievements!

To nominate your idea, we ask you to submit a brief proposal by completing our official form within the deadline. You can either nominate your own projects or you can nominate someone else for their brilliant work. This includes some general facts, visual material such as photos or videos, as well as a preview, outline or clear description of your proposal. You can hand in your information in German or English.

If you have a question regarding your nomination, let us know at programme@creativebureaucracy.org.

The next step consists of a full review by our Creative Bureaucracy Festival Jury. Based on the proposals submitted to them, our Jury aims and strives to build a balanced programme by taking into account our festival criteria as well as various elements of diversity and inclusivity.

All jury selected submissions will be invited to become part of our Digital Kick-Off Day on 24 March 2022 and receive a dedicated digital programme slot for up to 15 minutes. All contributions will be part of an official voting – including votes from the jury and our community.

Voting winners will be announced at the end of that day and will then be invited to present their ideas on the big Creative Bureaucracy Festival Stage in Berlin on 2 June 2022!

If you would like to be involved as a partner organisation in this year’s festival, please contact partnerships@creativebureaucracy.org.

10 Festival Topics - Check which of the them best fits your nomination?

Collaboration & Communication

Creative Bureaucrats don’t think in silos or subject fields, nor are they limited to working within sectors. They build bridges wherever needed to mobilise different actors behind common missions. Making this work means cutting the jargon: no ‘insider talk’ – rather simple, empathetic straight-talking and an eye for good design that’s accessible for all.

Organisational Culture & Governance

We’ve all experienced it: Too much bureaucracy kills creativity and innovation. But structures and processes aren’t stifling by default. Often they’re just not designed right. At Creative Bureaucracy we explore how leading public administrations are designing enabling cultures and governance structures.​

Participation & Engagement

Civic participation is at the heart of democracy. Yet so often citizens aren’t involved at all in their political system or policymaking processes. Creative Bureaucrats and their allies listen to individuals and their communities and find ways to actively involve them in the decisions that will affect their futures, providing agency and building trust along the way.

Public Infrastructures & Space

Public infrastructures and spaces are the foundation of our collective lives.Both in the physical realm and also, crucially, the ever-growing digital sphere. Designing them right is crucial for our health and well-being, as well as to addressing challenges of power balances, sustainability and trust. What set of practices, structures and resources would provide the best conditions for everyone to thrive? Creative Bureaucrats are onto it.

Technology & Data

“Digitalising a broken process gets you a digitised, broken process.” – New America. As governments increasingly automate their work and the digital possibilities around us proliferate, it’s Creative Bureaucrats and their allies who are ensuring we get the ‘digitalisation’ process right. From AI and data ethics through service design standards and digital public space stewardship, they’re ensuring technological growth doesn’t just have a rate but a values-led direction.

Equality & Equity

Many might consider the world around us to be a neutral canvas. But every design choice, conscious or otherwise, embeds certain perspectives and bias – in our physical and digital infrastructures, products and services, and far beyond. Creative Bureaucrats are striving towards a more equitable world by questioning such assumptions, surfacing unheard voices, and inviting systemic redesigns through new lenses.

Finance & Resourcing

What kind of bureaucratic infrastructure do we need for the 21st century? How can we create an empowering set of practices, resources and structures which together provide the best possible conditions for the imagination at all scales of society? Finance and resourcing don’t sound like especially ‘creative’ topics, but they are often the key to either halting or enabling progress. Creative Bureaucrats are on it – challenging existing views on ‘value’ and redesigning systems as a foundation for unlocking alternative futures.

Climate & Sustainability

The newly released IPCC report makes the state of the climate crisis unambiguously clear. Tackling this systemic threat to our planet and human rights requires a complete rewiring – not just of individual behaviour but of our underlying economic models, policy commitments, legal and regulatory frameworks, and political leadership. Creative Bureaucrats are leading the way.

Education & Employment

Quality education and meaningful employment are two of the most powerful tools for lifting socially excluded individuals into society and for building bonds between citizens. In our new world of digital technologies, climate crises, and different social challenges to the past – What jobs and skills do we need? And what kind of education should we provide beyond the labour market?Creative Bureaucrats are asking such questions.

Health & Wellbeing

What kind of lives are we really aspiring to? Creative Bureaucrats think twice when designing success metrics. They look beyond easy tested-and-tried approaches and seek out the root causes of social challenges,defining problems and implementing solutions with holistic understandings of health and wellbeing that span the physical to the psychological, social and spiritual.

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