For the first time, research shows that American creativity is declining. What went wrong—and how we can fix it.

Every artist or other creative spirit has a folder somewhere with ideas which for some reason never got realised: too expensive, too simple, too complex, too similar to something already done ...

These 'leftovers' usually die a lonely, dusty death, unless someone comes up with the idea to collect these ideas and sell them in a unique public sale of brilliant Ideas.

In 2009 the assessor ‘studio uc . klaus overmeyer’ developed the expertise “Kreative Milieus und offene Räume in Hamburg” (creative milieus and open spaces in Hamburg), which was commissioned by the Ministry of urban development and environment for the city state of Hamburg.