Transformation Demokratisieren – Paradigmenwechsel Lokal Ermöglichen

Caroline Paulick-Thiel is the director of Politics for Tomorrow, a non-partisan initiative which promotes public innovation learning and works with political-administrative institutions from the local to the highest federal level in Germany. As a strategic designer and expert in responsible innovation, Caroline has extensive experience in developing and leading participatory processes in the context of societal transformations.

Currently, she supports the Berlin Senate Chancellery and CityLAB as part of the Smart City core team in the co-creative design of the new strategy development. For the Creative Bureaucracy Festival, she initiated the Academy, which has been providing space for experiential learning and creative responses to public challenges since 2018. Trained in Design (BA) and Public Policy (MPP), she teaches as an author of “Public Design” in various disciplines and is also a member of various advisory boards.

Anne Kruse works on smart cities and participatory processes for the CityLAB of Technologiestiftung Berlin. She is part of the Smart City core team of the Senate Chancellery, supporting the co-creative design of the new strategy development and implementation (strategie.smart-city-berlin.de). She holds an MSc in Regional and Urban Planning Studies from London School of Economics and Political Science and a BA in Communication and Cultural Management from Zeppelin University. Before, she worked as a public sector consultant, advising municipalities on digitalization, Smart Cities and New Work. Additionally, she engages in promoting diversity and social justice.

Philip Hector focuses on issues of implementation in socio-ecological transformation processes. After an industrial design bachelor’s degree, and a master’s degree in applied sustainability research at Aalto University, he subsequently taught in the Creative Sustainability MA program while completing a PhD on sustainable consumption and co-design. In his dissertation, Philip examined the negotiations between civil society and city administrations regarding urban infrastructures such as repair cafés. In this work he focused on the creative work of actors to move from ideas to spaces, knowledge and tools for sustainable consumption. At P4T, Philip works on the participatory formats of the Berlin Smart City strategy and the formulation of goals and actions derived from these formats.

Henrike Arlt beschäftigt die Frage, wie Veränderungen in der öffentlichen Verwaltung ermöglicht werden können, selbst wenn der zentrale Erfolgsfaktor seit Jahrzehnten Beständigkeit lautet. Als Innovationspionierin und ehemalige Beraterin im Inhouse Consulting der Bundesagentur für Arbeit stellt Henrike dieses Leitmotiv auf den Kopf und interpretiert es neu. Ihre wichtigsten Erkenntnisse auf dem bisherigen Weg sind in das Handbuch „Öffentliches Gestalten” eingeflossen. Als kreative Bürokratin baut sie Brücken zwischen der Verwaltung und innovativem und kreativem Arbeitsansätzen. Ihre Kernthemen sind: Verwaltung der Zukunft, Innovation im öffentlichen Sektor und Begleitung von Transformationsprozessen

Niklas Kossow is a project manager for Smart City projects at the CityLAB Berlin, a project of the Technologiestiftung Berlin. In his role he works on coordinating a large-scale public participation process, involving citizens and stakeholders in writing Berlin’s new smart city strategy.

Before working with CityLAB Berlin, Niklas completed his PhD on digital tools in the fight against corruption at the Hertie School in Berlin. He worked as a freelance consultant with the GIZ, Transparency International, Freedom House and the UNDP. He is interested in how digital technologies are transforming our lives and how we can use them to make life in cities more sustainable, enjoyable and cooperative. He strongly believes in the power of citizen participation as a transformative force for governments.

Christian is a fellowship holder at Politics for Tomorrow. In this position he is entrusted with designing a participative Transformation Barometer for the city of Berlin.

Prior to his position at Politics for Tomorrow he studied Industrial Engineering and Economics at the Technical University of Berlin and the University of California Irvine, focusing on renewable energy technologies and ecological economics. He possesses years of experience in interdisciplinary research especially in the areas of sector coupling and acceptance research.

In his master thesis he built a data-based city portrait for the city of Berlin after the donut economics approach. He follows his passion for ecological economics, grassroots social innovation and donut economics in particular as a member of the Donut Berlin initiative.