Samenvatting

Complex issues require an approach by various parties that coordinate their interventions in society. This is often urgent, complicated, uncertain and threatening. You don’t want to introduce such interventions until they have first been thought through together: co-creation. At the same time, transparency is needed to increase the legitimacy of those same interventions. In that case, you don’t want to wait until ideas have been fully thought through, so that the outside world can think along. In this essay, the author argues that ‘living networks’ skilfully make this tension palpable and constructive. With a view to sustainable development, investing in their emergence is worthwhile.