The Creative Clyde - An Explanation and an Invitation

Euan Dobson, of Scottish Enterprise’s Clyde Regeneration Team outlined the background to the Creative Clyde sessions that had been held during 2004 and early 2005. He also talked about a number of projects within the Clyde Waterfront regeneration area that were featured in the Creative Clyde catalogue.

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The Creative Clyde sessions were a series of meetings that were attended by mixed groups of project managers on Clyde Regeneration projects from both development sector and community organisations. They were intended to allow people working on projects along Clydeside the opportunity to discuss and share the objectives of their projects and to identify links and connections.

Euan explained that Scottish Enterprise (SE) had facilitated the initial meetings to begin a process of making links between projects to enable the regeneration process to become less fragmented and more connected. He outlined that many participants had welcomed the networking these meetings created and that from the process SE and others had made links to existing projects that had not been known to them prior to the process.

Euan explained that the Creative Clyde catalogue had been produced to try and make clearer the type of projects that were felt to display a creative and linked approach to addressing social, economic and physical challenges being faced in regenerating the waterfront area.

The Tital Cran, Clydebank.
A Clydebank Re-Built project plans to light up the crane and
have a viewing platform installed at the top. © Clydebank Re-Built

In conclusion, he outlined that those involved in the creative Clyde process to date were keen to look at new themes and linkages that could be made over the next six months. He invited Firth of Clyde Forum members to suggest any topics that they may think worth discussion or projects that they wished to spread knowledge about.

In finishing Euan indicated that further information on Creative Clyde sessions would circulated to Firth of Clyde Forum members through the Project Officer.

Further information on Creative Clyde projects can be found at - http://www.clydewaterfront.com/creativeclyde.aspx