What Bureaucracies Can Learn from the Creative Arts
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What Bureaucracies Can Learn from the Creative Arts
26 Feb 2025, 14:00 – 15:30
Hosted at UCL IIPP on Wednesday 26th February 2025 14:00 (GMT) for a talk by Aaron Maniam.
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In the endeavour to be creative, where better for bureaucracies to learn than from the ‘creative industries’ like poetry, fiction and the visual or performing arts? Thelecture will go through a few tools, often used by creatives, which could be positively applied to bureaucratic work: metaphor, drafts/experiments/prototypes, improvisation and crowdsourcing.
Fellow of Practice & Director, Digital Transformation Education Programme
Oxford Blavatnik School
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Aaron’s expertise lies in the intersection of public policy and technology, particularly digitalization and its links to economic, social, regulatory and diplomatic strategy.
In his role, this award-winning poet and civil servant maintains a deep interest in the development of research material on digital transformation of governments throughout the world, as well as broader issues like the links between policy, innovation, strategic foresight and complex adaptive systems. He is based in Singapore.
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