About this Event
It is time to think afresh our ability to deliver for citizens. The challenges we face – from an aging population to a faltering health service; from uncertainty about the future of work to climate change – at a time of diminishing public budgets means we must find new ways to plan and deliver services. Often derided, our public bureaucracies are at the forefront of dealing with these challenges. Much good work is done. Many public servants are curious and creative, but suffer from risk-averse cultures. We all need to rethink what is done and how we do it especially in terms of valuing and cultivating imagination for the creation of alternative futures.
This first UK conference on this subject - hosted by Bristol Ideas, in collaboration with the Creative Bureaucracy Festival in Berlin - seeks to find new ways of solving some of these crucial challenges with inspiring people and presentations from a range of international speakers. The conference will explore who is doing important work to rethink public administration, both here and elsewhere in Europe and beyond.
The Berlin event - now in its seventh year - has triggered a movement of change with satellite events in other countries. It has become a collective gathering place for creative bureaucrats across the world with 1300 delegates attending its last event in June 2023. We look here at what we can learn for Britain as well for Bristol and the West of England.
Questions to be debated:
What is a creative bureaucracy and why is it urgent?
What are the challenges we are seeking to address?
What are the good examples we can look at from Europe and beyond?
How can we renew how public administration thinks, plans, and acts?
What is the vision/ visions for creative bureaucracies?
What does this mean for key challenges: housing and the environment?
Our speakers include:
Charles Landry, co-founder and president, Creative Bureaucracy Festival; Comedia
Gabriella Gomez Mont, Founder and principal at Experimentalista; former Chief Creative Officer for Mexico City and founder of Laboratorio para la Ciudad
Geoff Mulgan, professor of Collective Intelligence, Social Innovation and Public Policy, University College London
Idoia Postigo, director Bilbao Metropoli 30
Johanna Sieben, director Creative Bureaucracy Festival
Immy Kaur, co-founder and director of CIVIC SQUARE
Leyla Boulton, Financial Times
Melissa Mean, We can Make, Knowle West, Bristol
Nikki Linsell, Public Practice
Paul Smith, CEO, Elim Housing and former cabinet member for housing, Bristol City Council
Poku Osei, founder of Babassa
Robyn Bennett, head of international programming Creative Bureaucracy Festival
Sophie Howe, former Future Generations Commissioner for Wales
Tom Burke Co-founder of E3G
The ticket price includes lunch and refreshments.
In association with Creative Bureacracy, Berlin
Event Venue & Nearby Stays
Watershed, 1 Canon's Road, Bristol, United Kingdom
GBP 15.00 to GBP 20.00