The Creative Bureaucracy Festival 2020

Smart cities are by now much more defined by social innovation than by automation and technology. This is why the Governor of Colorado has decided to launch a new experimentation into new forms of governance, by rethinking their infrastructure decision-making process with the ambitious goal to increase equity for Coloradans.…

Der Ausbruch der Corona-Pandemie hat viele Behörden vor die Herausforderung gestellt, die eigene Arbeitsweise von einem Tag auf den anderen umzustellen. Die Abteilung für Kultur und Kommunikation im Auswärtigen Amt hat dies als einmalige Gelegenheit genutzt, die veränderten Rahmenbedingungen nicht einfach hinzunehmen, sondern vielmehr für die eigene Weiterentwicklung zu nutzen…

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…

Lisa Witter knows bureaucracy isn’t sexy and that good work often goes unnoticed. Despite this, she works tirelessly to try and ensure politicians and public servants have the training necessary to carry out their duties to the best of their ability. This includes providing pathways for existing and future politicians…

London’s Waterloo neighbourhood is home to WeAreWaterloo, one of the city’s first Business Improvement Districts, which is an organisation responsible making Waterloo more enticing through events, greening and cleaning, etc. Waterloo is also home to London’s second busiest train station, Waterloo Station, which routes hundreds of thousands of people through…

Bureaucracies can seem obscure and faceless. But as a longtime public servant, Margie Caust has got to know and understand the inner life of the bureaucracy. In this conversation, she explains how bureaucrats can transform and humanize this most rigid and hierarchical of systems from the inside, out.

Disruption is associated with innovative processes that challenge norms of how we live, work and play. 2020 has been the first collective global experience affecting all 8 billion people on the planet. How do advocates for the Creative City adapt to these new conditions? What are the new priorities and…

The session explores the notion of innovation diplomacy. Not yet a widely known concept, innovation diplomacy uses new ideas and technology to build relations between governments with a focus on delivering shared policy outcomes and better public services. Innovation diplomacy is the idea at the heart of the CivTech Alliance’s…

Sowohl auf Bundes- als auch auf kommunaler Ebene wird derzeit der Neubau von Wohnraum diskutiert und priorisiert vorangetrieben. In dem Zusammenhang stellt sich die Frage, ob neue Wohnquartiere ohne infrastrukturelle Einrichtungen wie z. B. Kita, Einkaufmöglichkeiten und Verkehrsanbindung tatsächlich weiterhelfen oder eher kooperative Quartierslösungen gebraucht werden, um Wohnsiedlungen nachhaltig in…