The Centre for Creative Collaboration is an interesting space but I find it hard to describe; thinking about how to do so has got me thinking about all sorts of things – creativity, collaboration, teamwork – and what it means to find a home for them.

Most of my interaction with C4CC has been on the back of my participation in <a href="http://tuttleclub.wordpress.com/">Tuttle</a>, a weekly meet-up where people – well, we just talk: Tuttle is full of <a href="http://patrickhadfield.wordpress.com/?s=tuttle">great conversations</a>. Anybody can have a conversation; but the people at Tuttle are particularly adept: there is a lot of creative energy at those Friday mornings in C4CC.

A conversation is clearly collaborative: it requires two or more participants to contribute. Conversations can be creative too; they may be transitory, but in the flow of the words change can be created, and something new left in the air.

I have also used C4CC to meet people to discuss projects that have come out of Tuttle.

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But mostly my creativity isn’t collaborative: my main creative activity is to take <a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/rhythmaning/">photographs</a>, a solitary practice; and I write a little (like this), also by myself. Whilst I have engaged in conversation at C4CC, and I have participated in events as an observer, I don’t feel I have been part of anything specifically creative there.

It is however a very interesting space. It has lots of white walls – crying out to be filled; it has lots of interestingly shaped rooms. It feels chimeric: it could be anything to anyone, a space waiting to be filled.