Mark Davy is the founder of Futurecity, a global cultural placemaking agency. Futurecity create cultural strategies for public and private sector organisations, broker cultural partnerships and deliver major art projects. Recent projects include the development of a prospectus for the new Arts Quarter in London’s famous West End; a new program called ‘Preview’ consisting of ‘Living Labs’ in property developments across the UK to encourage creative incubation in spaces designed to attract young and emerging talent; and the curation of a landmark cultural partnership between the Centre Pompidou and leading international developer Beulah International as part of ‘STH BNK By Beulah’ – an ambitious vertical city development in the heart of the Arts Precinct of Melbourne. Mark, who has a long term relationship with Grimshaw, talks about these and other great cultural placemaking projects.
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