We had the second meeting of the Sheriff’s Commission today at the Council House.
I was asked to present the findings of the USA trip – 10 days condensed into 10 minutes. I failed! It took me about 20 minutes…
My methodology was to steal Daniel Libeskinds ideas about his 17 words he uses to describe his architecture on TED. I produced my own 17 words which I felt had a theme across the attractions we saw.
They are:
If Nottingham is to have a world class attraction it needs to get some of these features into the offer.
The presentation does have some images and I will get these converted so that the whole presentation can be seen, but the words should be self-explanatory.
The formal report is now to be written by Nick Hammond from Castle College and myself. But our conclusion is that:
1. There is an economic case for an attraction – and we should be able to get 1m visitors a year
2. The attraction needs to take in a Shire based offer – but be centred on the Castle, ideally
3. The benchmark for a world class attraction can usefully be drawn from the words above
We really do need to aim high!
December 22nd, 2009 at 10:08
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