Curitiba: cities and self organisation Demos Cities Salon 2005 Charles Leadbeater

Questions from Curitiba Who is being creative ? What are they creative about? Where and how does creativity take place? Curitiba is system level social entrepreneurship Leading an entire city to co-create social value Demos Cities

Lessons from Curitiba Distributed (tools, skills, resources) Co-created (users are investors, participants, workers) Collaborative (peer-to-peer, shared facilities) Commons based production (shared platforms, infrastructure) Open leadership (clear values, simple rules structure self organisation) Innovation as orchestration of many players interacting Demos Cities

Lessons from Curitiba Where are the opportunities for system level innovation? How can they be taken and by whom? Demos Cities

Curitiba: cities and self organisation Demos Cities Salon 2005 Charles Leadbeater