Living Lab: Living Leading Cities (LLC)

Conversations about leaderships

Betty Tsakarestou Karl-Heinz Pogner

Presentation for the International Studying Leadership Conference

Copenhagen, December 16th , 2014

Panteion University of Social and Political Sciences

Agenda We ‘R co-creating … just now!

The scenario: “What if … the cities would rule the world?”

Why cities? Why leadership?

Leading a city - a leading city

LivingCityLabs Methodology:

1) Find the challenges for “livable/sustainable” cities

2) Your mission: Ideating, experiencing, solution

3) Choose a key focus for challenge and mission

4)Design a LeadingLivingCityLab

Reflections and Learnings

We ‘R co-creating ….. just now!

Key questions

(Golden circle):

Why should cities lead into the future ?

How can cities lead in to a future of sustainable and livable world?

What to focus the resources on (brain, money, creativity, institutions, science)?

>> Sinek 2009 & 2014

The scenario: “What if … the cities would rule the world?”

The scenario: “What if … the cities would rule the world?”

IMAGINE … 40 years ahead:

Government decentralized

Cities are mega-corridors, spanning borders,

Interdependencies

Mayors: the new political stars?

The scenario: “What if … the cities would rule the world?”

Driving values of citizens:

Transparency

Accountability

Responsive governance

Belonging

… related to the city space.

Collaboration in the network of (leading) cities:

Shaping new policies and best practices

Why cities as frontrunners?

Why cities as frontrunners?

Your work!

Notes

Why cities as frontrunners?

Rising urbanization + New urban challenges:

New urban governances

Citizens involvement

Economical and ecological crises

Territorial competitiveness

Need for creative solutions:

policies + urban projects

Why cities?

(How) can cities take the lead?

(How) can cities take the lead?

Your work

Notes

(How) can cities take the lead?

”leadership is conceived of a collective as social process merging through the

interactions of multiple actors”

> Uhl-Bien 2006

(How) can cities take the lead? Leadership

Participative

Collective

Collaborative

Shared

Democratic

-> Distributed

consensual governance

(New) Urban governance (John & Cole 2008)

……

Leading a city - a leading city

LivingCityLab/s

Labs for co-creation Labs for Research

Leading a city - a leading city

LivingCityLabs Methodology:

1) Find the main challenges for “livable/sustainable” cities

2) Your mission: Ideating, experiencing, solution

3) Choose a key focus for challenge and mission

4)Design a LeadingLivingCityLab on the focal challenge and mission

Your work

Notes

Leading a city - a leading city

Reflections

CHALLENGES

Managing innovational creative processes as co-creation looks like a paradox:

in order to set creativity and new ideas “free” U have to stage/organize spaces (even rules?) as limitations in order to

focus on the challenge at hand

Opening, enabling ad constraining at the same time

(HAIKU paradox )

Techniques for letting co-creation happen = (co-)creating space for it?

Reflections

CHALLENGES

Legitimation?

Urban governance

Consensus vs. conflicts

Communities vs. interests?

Stakeholders // actors

Leadership roles of institutions, networks, stakeholders

Leadership and urban governance

Leadership roles in New Urban Governance

Typology Consensual facilitator

visionary

caretaker City boss

Power to

Power over

resp

on

sive

dir

ecti

ve

>>John & Cole 2008