Water circle - Open Space Conference
Description
Dutch water managers have great faith in the manageability of the water system. Makeability thinking prevails. With technology we can endlessly bend the water system to our own needs.
Against this approach to planning, management, control and manufacturability is another perspective. The perspective of ungovernability. By actively seeking integration with spatial, economic and ecological developments, the manageability of processes decreases, but better and more beautiful solutions grow.
We in the Netherlands have a lot of experience with governability thinking and are still little practised in acting from ungovernability. In this
Open Space conference, the Water Circle of the Association for Public Administration wants to explore with people from practice, science, the social field and government what development water management can undergo if we manage to overcome the apparent contradiction of governability versus ungovernability.
Why an Open Space Conference?
The concept of the Open Space was developed by Harrison Owen who discovered that at symposia and conferences the best discussions take place during coffee breaks and in the corridors. The Open Space can therefore be seen as one big coffee break, briefly interrupted by plenary sessions. Participants decide what and with whom they talk. The law of the heart and two feet applies here: you are where you want to be and can contribute, you walk away when that is no longer the case. Experience shows that the best ideas are born this way.
As a Water Circle, we would like to know what is going on among water professionals with regard to (management) issues. That is why we have chosen the Open Space as a form to really get into conversation
Location
Organiser
Land Use and Water Management
Water circle
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