Charles Landry
Charles Landry is a prominent figure in city development and innovation. Best known for "The Creative City: A Toolkit for Urban Innovators." And followed by “The Art of City Making”. These revolutionized how we approach city planning and management. His extensive work reimagines city-making by exploring the nomadic world, intercultural cities, cultural resources and creative economy the psychology of urban spaces, risk and fragility, creative bureaucracies, and the measurement of creativity. His career has focused on how to harness the collective imagination and intelligence and to rethink, replan and act differently. He established Comedia, a think tank, publisher, and consultancy in 1978. He has worked all around the world and in 2018 he co-founded the Creative Bureaucracy Festival in Berlin.