We believe that creativity is an essential tool to shape our futures together and make a positive impact in our small but vibrant city. We think about our digital platform, events programme and partnerships as the scaffolding supporting the values and creative leadership that will make positive change possible.
Creative Dundee started in 2008 as a small blog. If you look it up, you’ll find that at its inception it shared the internet with some 120 million other blogs. It was a small seed in an overcrowded field. But it did have something unique – a community.
Dundee is filled with inventive, passionate and committed people. Many of the great creative projects in the city’s recent history have come from local collaborations and mutual support. Creative Dundee grew as a consequence of these shared goals; while our work has significantly impacted the local creative scene, it is also moulded by its needs, aspirations and talent.
All of this is to say, our story is not just ours. Below we have compiled some of the highlights of Creative Dundee’s work in the city which, as you can see, has consistently been about collaborations and collective work.
Oct 2020 – The Herald – Scots Black Lives Matter exhibition is destroyed
Oct 2020 – Options – British Council connects creative hubs in Malaysia
Sep 2020 – Evening Telegraph – Crowdsourcing platform asks Dundonians to share stories of lockdown
Jun 2020 – The Courier – Two-year plan to save Dundee’s cultural and tourism industries in wake of coronavirus
Jun 2019 – Future Scot – First public engagement event held at new home of video games R&D facility
May 2019 – GamesIndustry.biz – Dundee launches summer of games
May 2019 – RFI – Royaume-Uni: Dundee réécrit les règles du jeu vidéo (Dundee rewrite the rules of video games)
Mar 2019 – AOL – £100,000 funding boost for artistic links between Scotland and Japan
Mar 2019 – The Courier – International Women’s Day
Dec 2018 – Design Council – Dundee: Think global, act local
Oct 2018 – Creative Review – Redesigning Dundee: How Creativity is Shaping the City
Sep 2018 – Süddeutsche Zeitung – Underdog
Sep 2018 – The Courier – Groundbreaking £9 million gaming research centre to be established in Dundee
Sep 2018 – The Sunday National – Reactions to V&A Dundee are in
Sep 2018 – The Courier – Dundee games designers to showcase mental health installation at London Design Biennale
July 2018 – Creative Review – 50 Creative Leaders 2018
May 2018 – The Courier – Dundee Design Month: Pecha Kucha Night Dundee
April 2018 – Creative Scotland – Get to know: Creative Dundee
March 2018 – The List – Tay Time: how Dundee became the perfect home for the new V&A
Jan 2018 – The Scotsman – Dundee names one of the world’s most ‘design-savy’ cities
Dec 2017 – The Evening Telegraph – Recovery Dundee wins fundraising event Dundee Soup
Nov 2017 – The Times – V&A Dundee will boost Scottish economy
Nov 2017 – The Times – Scotland’s digital hub puts on its game face
Oct 2017 – The Courier – Dundee Matters
Sep 2017 – The Courier – Dundonians invited to imaging city in 2053
Jun 2017 – Creative Consultants blog – Spotlight on Dundee
May 2017 – The Evening Telegraph – Factory Floor theme for Dundee Design Festival
Apr 2017 – The Courier – Dundee Soup first community award goes to tea dance group
Apr 2017 – SunStar Manila – Manila to showcase ASEAN Creative Cities
Apr 2017 – The Courier – Saint-Étienne’s International Design Biennale: a great example of social innovation initiatives
Mar 2017 – The Scotsman – Dundee’s digital sector growth outpaces rest of UK
Mar 2017 – The Courier – Host of top speakers at Pecha Kucha
Feb 2017 – Dundee and Angus Chamber of Commerce – Cultural Tourism In Dundee receives boost from Scottish Enterprise
Feb 2017 – The Courier – Breathing new life into Dundee’s historic buildings
Nov 2016 – RSA – Dundee designing the future, drawing on the past
Nov 2016 – InspireD – Dundee’s Creative Spectrum
Nov 2016 – Committee for Geelong – Winning from Second (p28)
Nov 2016 – FX Magazine – Something in the city
Nov 2016 – Walking Heads – Creative cities built on can-do culture
Sep 2016 – The Courier – Creative forces behind a city on the up
Aug 2016 – Scots Magazine – Northern Lights shine on Scotland’s top designers
Aug 2016 – The Skinny – Local Heroes celebrate Scottish design
Jul 2016 – Design Week – Scottish design is fresh, playful and exciting
Jun 2016 – Creative Cardiff – #34: Creative Cardiff @ Mass Assembly
Apr 2016 – It’s Nice That – Dundee: the UK’s new creative capital?
Mar 2016 – Design Week – Dundee launches design events programme
Feb 2016 – British Council – Spotlight on Creative Dundee
Feb 2016 – RSA – Blog: I love Dundee
Jan 2016 – Emily Luxton Travels – Creative Dundee with Blogmanay
Jan 2016 – The Courier – Dundee has the write stuff for the Blogmanay travel writers
Nov 2015 – The Courier – European Commission visitors to learn role culture and creativity has played in Dundee
Nov 2015 – Fold Latvia – A toolkit for emerging creative hubs
Oct 2015 – The Courier – International visitors learn how Dundee has become a District of Creativity
Aug 2015 – The Scotsman – Creatives help spread sector message round Europe
Aug 2015 – Press and Journal – What do Dundee, Amsterdam, Berlin and Barcelona have in common?
Jun 2015 – British Council – A tale of two cities: Digital Futures UKMX
Apr 2015 – SURF – Ingredients for a creative city
Mar 2015 – Holyrood – Design for life – the potential of Dundee’s V&A museum
Feb 2015 – The Times Business Insight – Wind in their sails: experts assess the future for Dundee
Jan 2015 – The Courier – Creative cities welcome Dundee to the UNESCO design club
Jan 2015 – The Courier – International design status caps another successful year for Dundee
Dec 2014 – The Independent – Dundee: The ‘City of Design’ that’s pushing the boat out as a cultural and creative powerhouse
Jun 2014 – Creative Scotland – Creative City Networks
May 2014 – The Courier – Ignite Dundee festival launched with live game design demo
May 2014 – Creative Scotland – From blogging to bridging the gap
May 2014 – Sunday Herald – Vic Galloway – Take back the city
Apr 2014 – The Metro – 12 reasons Dundee is the best city in the UK
Nov 2013 – The Courier – Dundee’s Pecha Kucha Nights becoming more of a talking point
Aug 2013 – BBC News – Campaigners urge public to outline vision for Dundee
Apr 2013 – Creative Boom – Creative Cities: Dundee a regular city feature of creative scenes in the UK
Mar 2013 – The Courier – Website launches search for ‘hidden secrets’ of Dundee
2011/12 – Hosted the Creative Dundee Office Christmas Party 2011 and the Creative Christmas Showstopper 2012.
May 2012 – Launched the first crowdsourced guide to Dundee
Nov 2011 – Held the city’s first ever Pecha Kucha Night Dundee, during NEoN Digital Arts Festival.
Jan 2008 – The blog’s intentions were set out in the first ever piece shared online: The Future Home