The Urban Ideas Bakery

The Urban Ideas Bakery – Stimulating Social Creativity and Innovation in Cities

The Young Foundation was commissioned by the British Council to carry out a study looking at creativity and innovation in cities across Europe. Creativity in cities is about daily problem solving as much as it is about long-term solutions to issues such as school drop outs and traffic congestion. Our intention is to design a process for bringing external partners from a variety of sectors to cities to work with local innovators and to help similulate social creativity and innovation. Through this process, we aim to create a network of people who are open to this approach to creativity, and who are active innovators in their cities and regions. These interactions can embed new ways of thinking and working. The overall aim is to build a shared understanding about the contribution creativity, entrepreneurship and innovation can make in securing the long-term economic, cultural and social prosperity of cities across Europe.  

The photograph used on this page was taken from Flickr, a photo-sharing website. It allows it's users to offer their work to others under a Creative Commons license. The photo of Oslo is credited to Bernt Rostad.