Every year, the Creative Bureaucracy Festival brings together around 2,000 participants from public administration, politics, civil society, and beyond – to discuss bold ideas and celebrate outstanding innovations in the public sector.
On June 5, 2025, the festival returns to Berlin for its eighth edition. Once again, we invite creative minds, public sector innovators, and change-makers from Germany and around the world to rethink the principles, processes, and practices of our public institutions.
You can find the program highlights here.
Regenerative Alliances for Thriving Commons
Public commons are more than resources. They are spaces of shared responsibility, co-creation, and collective well-being. Their potential collapse puts constant pressure on how public administrations operate, exposing their limitations to care for what is living, shared, and evolving. Together with experts, we explore democratizing partnership models for the intergenerational stewardship of transboundary commons – from drinking water and urban green spaces to data, memory, and future narratives. What kinds of alliances are needed not just to safeguard resources, but to build resilient infrastructures for an intersectional common good? Who owns tomorrow, and how can we shape it together?
This session focuses on the governance of vitality: the kind that doesn’t show up in public budgets, but lives in every breath, every login, every childhood memory. It is for those ready to move beyond conventional governance structures and co-create adaptive, caring relationships and processes.
with Dr. Niklas Kossow
from 2 – 3:30pm
Tickets are now available – secure your festival ticket here or register here for the livestream if you want to join us online.
