What is it ?
Annually, each district of the Districts of Creativity Network sends delegates to attend a "Reverse Mission" at the host district, with the mission being to discover how innovation and entrepreneurial creativity helped shape the district.
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Overview
As defined by the DC Network, Reverse Missions are annual study visits to DC Network member regions.
Leading experts, entrepreneurs, public servants and policy makers from the DC network gather to explore a host region during a multi-day program that provides insights into the way the hosting region fosters creativity and innovation.
Business meetings, site visits, presentations and workshops are worked out with the aim to bring inspiration, best practices and loads of useful contacts that can be translated to the other DC regions.
2019 Reverse Mission:
Stuttgart, Germany
Oklahomans Study Innovative Urban Development and Placemaking as Economic Development Strategies in Three Cities in Germany
Two Oklahomans representing the nonprofit organization Creative Oklahoma traveled to three cities in Germany to study their significant successes in developing diverse and robust economies through improving community livability via urban place-making, investing in community-accessible high performance computing and strategically nurturing ecosystems that support growth in a wide variety of creative-based industries. Read More...
Previous Reverse Missions
2019: Stuttgart, Germany
2017: Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
2016: Brabant, The Netherlands
2015: Oklahoma, United States
2015: Edinburgh, Scotland
2014: Lombardy, Italy
2013: Flanders, Belgium
2012: Aarhus, Denmark
2011: Tampere, Finland
2010: Catalonia, Spain
2009: Karnataka, India
2008: Baden-Württemberg, Germany
2019 Oklahoma Delegates

Meloyde Blancett
“The trip was very inspirational and provided us with new business relationships, collaborative project possibilities, and ideas for Oklahoma’s own urban development and high technology solutions. What’s so valuable in making these connections is that the cities we visited aren’t the world’s powerhouse cities like Paris or London; they are more like Oklahoma in terms of size and challenges, so their innovative solutions are extremely applicable to us. We can learn a great deal from them."

Jane Jenkins
“From small scale experiments to large urbanization projects, this Reverse Mission has shown the impact innovative solutions and creative industries can have on urban place-making throughout a range of impressive projects. I came away with a lot of ideas we can use here.”
Jane Jenkins, President/CEO - Downtown OKC, Inc., has 30 years of experience in downtown revitalization and management, Jane is an internationally recognized speaker and expert on urban issues. She is a former Chairman for the International Downtown Association Board of Directors and is also active in the International Economic Development Council, Urban Land Institute, and the American Institute of Architects.
In 2014, Jane earned accreditation from the Congress for New Urbanism and she was recently named a Senior Fellow at the Institute for Place Management in Manchester, England. She has been honored three times by the Oklahoma Journal-Record as one of “50 Women Making a Difference” in Oklahoma, and has twice been listed by Friday Magazine as one of the most powerful women in Oklahoma. Jane is a graduate of Leadership Oklahoma City and Leadership Oklahoma.
Creative Oklahoma's Involvement
2019
2016
April
19-222015
March
26-282015
OCTOBER
27-29