CREATIVE HERITAGE, the Herrenhausen Symposium on 11–13 October 2017, is an international platform for innovative thinking and practice on cities, heritage and creativity. Cultural Heritage is on the agenda of European culture and politics, not only with the planned European Year of Cultural Heritage in 2018. It is discussed as important part of identities of increasingly complex societies and communities, it is understood as cultural capital to build on for economic innovation and ecological resilience. Various scales and forms of cultural heritage have come into the field of view, even tough the scales of community spaces, of cities, towns, villages, valleys, regions demand a deeper understanding as they are directly influenced by cultural heritage. Not only retrospectively, but especially concerning future impact of heritage as well as perspectives of living spaces and character of places.
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