A Problem that Lives in Many Places with Christa Breum Amhøj

From PCC Local Time · 46:45

Show by Nancy Joan Hess

I have spent much of my professional life working with people inside local government organizations. Helping them learn together, build relationships, think differently about problems and discover new ways of working.But what happens when we take that work outside the organization and into the community itself?This is a question that has been growing in my mind over several years of conversations with Christa Breum Amhøj, who joins me from Denmark for this episode of MuniSquare.Christa holds a PhD in public management from Copenhagen Business School, where she is an external lecturer. She is also the founder of Action University Copenhagen.Christa helps municipalities and communities explore new ways of bringing people together to recognize and create possibilities within the places where they live and work.Subscribe to MuniSquare on Substack Timestamps00:00 Introduction02:37 Two ends of the same system04:04 From machines to relationships07:12 Problems that live in different places10:08 What welfare means in Denmark12:44 Shared governance in the U.S.14:20 Place as a living system17:24 Leading in unpredictable times19:14 What makes a problem wicked20:15 Mapping a rural municipality in Jutland25:23 Who is missing from the table?27:20 Instead of a community center: jazz in a parking lot31:25 Becoming a community weaver31:55 Drawing the place together33:25 Design thinking, prototypes and experiments36:07 “They had never been invited”37:03 Prototypes inside the organization39:46 What would this look like in the U.S.?41:35 Experts and collective intelligence43:09 Creating a new problem world43:36 Closing

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