Millennium Point CEO, Philip Singleton
Millennium Point is setting out its stall to reinforce its role in the Birmingham city region, to be the place to go – whoever you are – to experience and be exposed to science.
Millennium Point was created as a place to celebrate Science, Technology and Learning. We are keen to add two new, very important concepts to this: Innovation and Design.
These five words describe our footprint as a charity.
Learning is something that is embedded in our society, whether informal, formal, random or planned. I want Millennium Point to be increasingly seen as the place of formal learning via one of our key partners, BCU, or more informally via Thinktank, but to experience the unexpected, the surprising, the engaging and enthralling. We will import the latest technology and expressions of science into our spaces. Our spaces actually are cavernous – an atrium that could host huge scale objects, the Giant Screen which can show, with brilliance and scale, anything you care to dream of and outdoor spaces unparalleled in the city centre.
I want Millennium Point to be the place in Birmingham which showcases the city’s successes and achievements; through incredible creative minds – designing our futures and creating solutions to how we Play, Move, Work and Live.
Innovation is what drives change, responds to economies and their vagaries, excites us and defines the human spirit in seeking out what can be better. It is about delivering to the world new ideas and solutions.
We can fly the flag for Birmingham in exemplifying what is done best here and, as a natural counterpoint, we can import ideas from the globe into Birmingham. The best design and innovation is the exchange of ideas – it is an ebb and flow of things.
So, how will we do all of this? We want to be an active host, exploiting the scale of what we are, to do things demonstrably large. The Giant Screen, as a high quality wholly digital venue for 373 people to view the screen that is the biggest between London and Bradford. Our atrium will show sculptures, and vivid installations.
As Spring approaches, I will be very happy when I see people out in the new Eastside Park to the south of our building, surfing away on the free wifi we have connected.
As Birmingham is a Science City – with great minds already at work here and new minds developing, we want to be the place where you can talk, view, debate, absorb, exchange and take away personal delight from what you see here.
This is our ambition. I am absolutely clear that we will only do it by engaging and working very closely with a number of partners – people and organisations which have amazing ideas and can fulfil their ambitions by joining with us to make the most of what we have.
Philip
Philip Singleton
Chief Executive
Millennium Point
philip.singleton@millenniumpoint.org.uk
Telephone: 0121 202 2201
Mobile is 07976 426 385
Curzon Street
Birmingham
B4 7XG
www.millenniumpoint.org.uk
www.giantscreencinema.co.uk
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