Towns and cities have mostly been cosmopolitan, and, with their interaction of cultures and races, new ideas, artifacts, products, services and institutions are created. Cities are the places which allow people space to live out their ideas, needs, aspirations, dreams, projects, conflicts, memories, anxieties, passions and fears. These ways of thinking encourage innovation and generate new possibilities. Creativity in effect is an instrument for maximising the possibilities of any given situation and of adding value and meaning to the results of human endeavour in any field. Whilst varying forms of creativity are usually necessary to increase the potential of towns and cities it is nevertheless context driven.
Every period of history needs an emphasis on a particular form of creativity.
Huddersfield believes that it is the synergy between the creativity of those working in the arts and cultural fields and those at the edge of technological innovation that will bear most fruit. It believes that the conditions are right in Huddersfield to show how this impact could be maximised. We go into this project with a running start and have prepared the ground for many years. Our Vision is to make Huddersfield, within a defined period of five to seven years, a place which tangibly enriches talented individuals and provides opportunities for them to bring concepts and products to realisation, thereby helping Huddersfield become a wealth-creating town. Our proposal focuses especially on the linkage between arts and cultural creativity and technological creativity, because it is in these connections that so many future goods and services will be generated.