Donderdag 17 juni – Tip van Marleen Stikker: Charles Landry. Volg de link en de autoriteit knalt er vanaf. En het schijnt ook nog een zeer aardige man te zijn.

Charles Landry is an international authority on the use of imagination and creativity in urban change. He is currently a fellow at the Robert Bosch Academy in Berlin. He invented the concept of the Creative City in the late 1980’s. Its focus is how cities can create the enabling conditions for people and organizations to think, plan and act with imagination to solve problems and develop opportunities. The notion has become a global movement and changed the way cities thought about their capabilities and resources.

Bijzonder interessant vind ik zijn concept ‘The Creative Bureaucracy’:

‘The Creative Bureaucracy’ highlights the human perspective. It understands people are at the heart of the system. It puts the lived experience of working within or with a bureaucracy centre-stage. A bureaucracy is not only a structure or ‘organigram’ with functional relationships and roles. It is a group of people with lives, emotions, aspirations, energy, passion and values.

Relevant voor het nieuwe college in Amsterdam.