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What Bureaucracies Can Learn from the Creative Arts

26 February 2025, 2:00 pm–3:30 pm

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This event is open to IIPP's students and faculty only

This event is free.

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Open to

All | UCL students

Availability

Yes

Cost

Free

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IIPP Comms

 

Hosted at UCL IIPP on Wednesday 26th February 2025 14:00 (GMT) for a talk by Aaron Maniam.

Read more about IIPP 2024-25 Enrichment Lectures

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.

About the Speaker

Aaron Maniam

Fellow of Practice & Director, Digital Transformation Education Programme at Oxford Blavatnik School

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Currently Fellow of Practice & Director, Digital Transformation Education Programme at the Oxford Blavatnik School.

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. More about Aaron Maniam