The Creative Bureaucracy Festival 2020

The daily “Festival Highlight Hour” is outlook, review, summary and entertainment at the same time. Every day Charles Landry and Astrid Frohloff will present the Festival Highlight Hour to the international audience: They will present what the next 24 festival hours have to offer: Which sessions are up next and…

Die Komplexität des Informationsaustausches zwischen Polizei und Justiz ist gewaltig. Föderale Zusammenarbeit, unterschiedliche Geschwindigkeiten und Gewaltenteilung sind nur ein paar der Faktoren, die beim Informationsaustausch und der Kooperation von Polizei und Justiz mitgedacht werden müssen. Das Potential ist auch gewaltig, bedarf aber einer langsamen und kontrollierten Annäherung und ein mitnehmen…

Deutschlands wirtschaftlicher Erfolg ist eng mit erfolgreicher Forschung und Entwicklung verbunden. Traditionelle Stärken Deutschlands liegen in einer Mischung aus staatsnaher Grundlagenforschung und angewandter Forschung und Entwicklung in Unternehmen. Bei der Überführung von Forschungsergebnissen in innovative Produkte und neue Unternehmen sind uns andere Staaten jedoch voraus. Zugleich geraten angestammte Industrien Deutschlands…

Despite the broadness and heterogeneity of the Latin-American region, its cities and institutions have been widely known to be capable of launching some of the most promising urban policy experiments in the last decades: from participatory budgeting to BRT and ciclovías. In this session, we are exploring how Latin American…

If one thing is clear in our crisis-ridden world, it’s that we need to replace our extractive economic models with alternatives that better reflect how the universe and humanity actually work. But what would such a utopian ‘human economy’ look like in practice? What does it really take to bring…

Today, it can seem as if the world has nothing but problems. Climate crisis, pandemic, and conflict. To address our complex challenges, policy makers need to embrace a more expansive way of thinking. In this session, Christian Bason, a leading authority on innovation and design for government, will share six…

For far too long, government has been a kingdom ruled and shaped by men. The consequences are still felt today. Susan Pettifer has spent over ten years fighting to overturn the culture of Sydney’s city government, to huge effect. She and her team have won many prizes for their work…

A cross-sector emergency team established to address the unique challenges of Covid in Israel’s Arab-Bedouin communities developed unique tools for bridging differences of approach, cultural adaptation and mission alignment. Ranging from vaccination operations to donation- to-impact effectiveness. The result was unprecedented levels of communication and coordination leading to a set…

In urban development, gentrification is often met with suspicion. Though promising, the process of gentrification goes hand in hand with alienation and forced displacement. This session questions whether ‘gentlyfication’ can be the answer to potential negative effects of gentrification measures. Gentlyfication approaches market forces from a different vantage point, proposing…

The project HÁ CULTURA | CULTURE FOR ALL is a project of participatory artistic practices for social inclusion within drama, circus, music, architecture, visual arts, dance, promoted by the Municipality of Vila Nova de Famalicão, North Portugal, and co-financed by the European Social Fund (ESF) under the axis of “Social…