Dundee: from black sheep of Scottish cities to 'living cultural experiment'

When the V&A Museum of Design opens in 2018, it will put a flourish on Dundee's remarkable reinvention as a creative hub ... as long as the city doesn't overlook that it's still one of the most deprived places in Scotland

Chris Van Der Kuyl set up his first video game company in Dundee in the mid-1990s. "It was an industrial landscape," he says of the city, which had been bled of heavy industry from the 1970s onwards. "Everything was closing, everyone was leaving."

Van Der Kuyl's 4J Studios would go on to help develop the global gaming sensation Minecraft; next year he will open a new digital headquarters on the city's docks. "It's not the V&A but it will cost a few million," he laughs.