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When Creativity Meets Metropolitan Governance
When creativity meets governance, chances are that this meeting will generate energy towards good metropolitan governance. However, creativity is a scarce resource, and the connectivity between creativity and governance does not materialize automatically. Only an action-oriented approach can make each fruitful for the other. We elaborate the “model for metropolitan governance” and hypothesize that creativity has to become part of the three interconnected structuring systems of governance, i.e., strategy, structures and culture.
The particular links between governance and creativity are creative people and the creative culture and artefacts they produce, such as tools for the visualization and design of landscapes. A “reality check” shows that it takes certain premises to connect creativity to governance: a high level of pressure for innovation that exceeds the sunk cost of no-action, a process design that allows space for mutual learning and creative exploration, and “change agents” in the form of open- minded people.
When Creativity Meets Metropolitan Governance
When creativity meets governance, chances are that this meeting will generate energy towards good metropolitan governance. However, creativity is a scarce resource, and the connectivity between creativity and governance does not materialize automatically. Only an action-oriented approach can make each fruitful for the other. We elaborate the “model for metropolitan governance” and hypothesize that creativity has to become part of the three interconnected structuring systems of governance, i.e., strategy, structures and culture.
The particular links between governance and creativity are creative people and the creative culture and artefacts they produce, such as tools for the visualization and design of landscapes. A “reality check” shows that it takes certain premises to connect creativity to governance: a high level of pressure for innovation that exceeds the sunk cost of no-action, a process design that allows space for mutual learning and creative exploration, and “change agents” in the form of open- minded people.
When Creativity Meets Metropolitan Governance
Thierstein, Alain (author) / Gabi, Simone (author)
disP - The Planning Review ; 40 ; 34-40
2004-01-01
7 pages
Article (Journal)
Electronic Resource
English
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