An interactive, case-based program for city leaders
Participants: The mayor’s cabinet, other staff members selected by the city’s administration.
(Four online two hour sessions)
Session 1:
July 13, 2022 – Pier Luigi Sacco: (11 am – 1 pm ET)
Arts and Policy Toolkits: The New European Agenda for Culture and Behavioral Change
https://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/TXT/?uri=COM%3A2018%3A267%3AFIN
Cultural crossovers: health, innovation social cohesion, environment
https://www.mdpi.com/2071-1050/10/11/3923
Proof of concept: The New European Bauhaus
https://europa.eu/new-european-bauhaus/index_en
Proof of concept: The EIT-KIC on Cultural and Creative Industries
What makes a cultural city? The Cultural and Creative Cities Monitor
https://composite-indicators.jrc.ec.europa.eu/cultural-creative-cities-monitor
Session 2:
July 14, 2022 -, Doris Sommer: (11 am – 1 pm ET)
Arts and Policy, Steps and Missteps
Recommended Reading:
– Questions to consider:
– What works in the cases of Bogota and Tirana?
– How did change happen?
– Who led and who participated in change?
– In Mannheim, consider: “Alter” and Oriental Academy of Music Mannheim
Session 3:
July 20, 2022 -, Jose Molinas : (11 am – 1 pm ET)
Social Capital, Artful Leadership, and Participatory Arts.
– Questions to consider:
– What works in the cases of el Sistema to promote wellbeing?
– What elements of Social Capital were important?
– What would you consider could be explored for Mannheim from these case and reading?
– Plenary discussion: What did we do?
Session 4:
July 21, 2022 – Robert Austin: (11 am – 1 pm ET)
Arts and Policy Toolkits: Models of Adaptive Leadership
Questions to think about as (and after) you read:
1. Some people thought Miles Davis had peaked in his early 30s – they were very wrong. What do you think accounts for Davis’s ability to continue to innovate even when others thought there was nowhere else to go creatively? How did he do it? What can public organizations learn from this?
2. The legendary alto saxophone player Cannonball Adderley once described Davis as “not a good trumpet player but a great soloist” – what do you think Adderley meant by this? If we think more broadly, about organizations as well as music making, what is the relationship between technical ability/execution and the ultimate ability to create great value.
3. How would you assess Miles Davis as a leader? What principles can you identify from the Kind of Blue and other episodes that might be useful for leading in your own context
4 . Kind of Blue is still the best-selling jazz album of all time and widely acknowledged to be a masterpiece, of jazz certainly, but really of human achievement. And yet, it was accomplished by giving great jazz players music to play that was technically very easy, compared to what they were used to (e.g., hard bop). Why did this work? What did giving great players easy music enable? How did it lead to such major impacts?
(In person, 4 sessions, about 2 hours each)
Session 5:
July 25, 2022 – Customize Arts and Policy for Your City (13-15 hs)
Forum Theater, Facilitators Rainer Kern and Doris Sommer
Q: What are the major challenges facing your city?
Q: How would you prioritize them?
– Identify current creative resources
Q: What creative resources might you be able to access in your city?
Q: What approaches or ideas from the virtual sessions (Session 1 to 4) might be applicable to
your challenges?
Session 6:
July 26, 2022 – Connect the Dots (13-15 hs)
Facilitator, Julia Alicka, Founding Director of Alter, Mannheim
– Explore ways that one dynamic connects with others (e.g., public health with transportation, education, employment, etc.)
– Each Secretary or Vice Mayor draws a mental map and reports to the group
Session 7:
July 27, 2022 – Facilitated Working Groups (13-15 hs)
Facilitator, Mehmet Ungan, Founding Director of Oriental Academy of Music Mannheim
– Objective: Move toward development of a project to work on
– Facilitated by local arts collectives
– 40 minutes in small groups to tackle a particular challenge through participatory arts
Session 8:
July 28, 2022 – Finalize Projects Definitions (13-15 hs)
Facilitator, Nadja Anima Peter (livekultur Mannheim e. V.)
– Settle on starting-point problem definition statements to be pursued and refined over next six months
– Facilitated by local arts collectives
– 40 minutes in small groups to finalize a particular challenge to be undertaken through participatory arts
– 10 minutes to discuss budgetary allocations.
– 30 minutes to share speculations and to plan follow-up planning meetings
(Work in groups done over six month period, regular check-ins with project “faculty”)
Regular Check-ins are one-hour sessions with each team, on a roughly bi-weekly schedule.
(In person, one day)
Project teams from one or more cities present to Mayors and other relevant stakeholders
Mayors’ Closing Remarks
Celebration
Profiles of Speakers and Facilitators
Rob Austin is a professor of Information Systems at Ivey Business School, and an affiliated faculty member at Harvard Medical School. Before his appointment at Ivey, he was a professor of Innovation and Digital Transformation at Copenhagen Business School, and, before that, a professor of Technology and Operations Management at the Harvard Business School. At Harvard, he chaired the executive program for Chief Information Officers (CIOs) for more than ten years. Professor Austin has published widely, in both academic and professional venues, such as Harvard Business Review, Information Systems Research, MIT Sloan Management Review, Organization Science, Organization Studies, and the Wall Street Journal. He also is the author of nine books, more than 50 published cases and notes, three Harvard online products, and two popular Massively Open Online Courses (MOOCs) running on the Coursera platform. His “Cyberattack!” Simulation won the 2020 International Serious Play Gold Medal. His research on neurodiversity employment programs is funded by SSHRC.
Rainer Kern, holds his university degree in chemistry and political science. Now a leader in culture and city development.. Founder and Director of the biggest German Jazz Festival, “Enjoy Jazz – Festival for Jazz and More” (www.enjoyjazz.de) 2022 marks the 24th Edition of the festival. As the Special Advisor to the Mayor of Mannheim he is responsible for International Networks and for the setup and strategic development of the worldwide network/platform “Global Parliament of Mayors” (GPM) which was launched in September 2016 in The Hague, Netherlands and co-founded by the city of Mannheim. In 2007, Kern was the managing and artistic director of the year-long celebration of the 400th anniversary of the founding of Mannheim, founded the literature festival “lesen.hören” (“reading. Listening”) which still takes place every year. He is the chair of the UNESCO Cities of Music Cluster. As the commissioner of the city of Mannheim, he was involved in the development of the cultural. development plan “Kulturvision 2025” for the Rhine-Neckar European Metropolitan Region. In 2014/15 he developed the Culture Management degree program for SRH University, Heidelberg, which started autumn 2015.
Ian Koebner is the Director of Integrative Pain Management and an Assistant Professor in the Department of Anesthesiology and Pain Medicine at the University of California, Davis (UCD) as well as a Cultural Agents Fellow at Harvard University. Koebner is the principal investigator of a National Institutes of Health, National Center for Advancing Translational Sciences award for his project entitled, The Analgesic Museum: The Development and Effectiveness of Museum-Based Experiences to Reduce Social Isolation and Pain Among Individuals with Chronic Pain. Prior to his appointment at UCD he was the founding executive director of an international arts-based education and conflict resolution organization called Sacred Slam. During his tenure with Sacred Slam he curated over 50 exhibitions, workshops, and performances in conflict and post-conflict regions around the world designed to challenge stigma and promote diversity as a social asset.
Jose Molinas, Ph.D in Economics from the University of Massachusetts, Amherst, is Director of the Desarrollo Institute in Asunción, Paraguay. He previously served as senior economist at the World Bank, based in Washington, as the World Bank Human Development Sector Leader for Central Asia, based in Almaty, Kazakhstan, and as Minister of Planning for Economic and Social Development of the Republic of Paraguay. His research interests include Development Economics, Public Policy, Culture and Development, Local Development, and Social Capital.
Pier Luigi Sacco, PhD, is Professor of Economic Policy, University of Chieti-Pescara, Senior Advisor to the OECD Center for Entrepreneurship, SMEs, Regions, and Cities, Associate Researcher at CNR-ISPC, Naples, and Affiliate Researcher at the metaLAB (at) Harvard. He has been Visiting Professor, Visiting Scholar at Harvard University, Faculty Associate at the Berkman-Klein Center for Internet and Society, Harvard University, and Special Adviser of the EU Commissioner to Education, Culture, Youth and Sport. He is a member of the scientific board of European Foundation, Den Haag, of the Advisory Council on Scientific Innovation of the Czech Republic, Prague, of the EQ-Arts Foundation, Amsterdam, and of the Advisory Council of Creative Georgia, Tbilisi. He regularly gives courses and invited lectures in major universities worldwide. He works and consults internationally in the fields of culture-led local development and is often invited as keynote speaker in major cultural policy conferences worldwide. He has published more than 200 papers in international peer-reviewed journals and edited books with major international publishers.
Doris Sommer, Ira and Jewell Williams Professor of Romance Languages and Literatures and of African and African American Studies. She is co-founder of Renaissance Now https://www.renaissancenow-cai.org and founder of “Cultural Agents,” an Initiative at Harvard and an NGO dedicated to reviving the civic mission of the Humanities. Her academic and outreach work promotes development through arts and humanities, specifically through “Pre-Texts” in the USA, Latin America, Asia, and Africa. Pre-Texts is an arts-based training program for teachers of literacy, critical thinking, and citizenship. Among her books are Foundational Fictions: The National Romances of Latin America (1991) about novels that helped to consolidate new republics; Proceed with Caution when Engaged by Minority Literature (1999) on a rhetoric of particularism; Bilingual Aesthetics: A New Sentimental Education (2004) for our times of contested immigration; and The Work of Art in the World: Civic Agency and Public Humanities (2014). Sommer has enjoyed and is dedicated to developing good public school education. She has a B.A. from New Jersey’s Douglass College for Women, and Ph.D. from Rutgers University.