The national Arts and Place consortium emerged from the Farrell Review of Architecture and the Built Environment in 2014 and promotes the role of the arts and artists in placemaking.
Arts and Place is led by Beam supported by a range of architects, artists and arts professionals from across the UK.
2 Jun – 16 Jul 2020, 4–5pm
Arts and Place NOW was a series of free online conversations curated by the National Arts and Place Consortium that will shine a light on exemplar projects amplifying the artists' voice in placemaking and exploring the future role of artists working in the public realm.
Thu 2 Jul 2020, 6–7.30pm
A conversation between architects, urbanists and cultural place makers.
17 – 19 Oct 2019, 9am–5pm
NTU CCA Singapore is pleased to present Art, Urban Change, and the Public Sphere, which engages with art in privately owned public spaces through a Public Art Education Summit and research presentation. (Oct 2019)
Tue 2 Apr 2019, 9am–5pm
We are pleased to announce that the 'Big Meet 9: Placemaking and Design Leadership' will take place in London on Tuesday 2 April 2019, at UCL.
Thu 21 Feb 2019, 9am–5pm
This event in February 2019 marked the 5th anniversary of the Farrell Review of Architecture and the Built Environment. Reflecting on recent achievements, government and industry leaders asked “what more can be done in the future?".
Event organised by Farrells.
Tue 17 Jul 2018, 9am–5pm
Organised by Beam as part of its national Arts and Place programme, with funding from Arts Council England. (July 2018)
Wed 18 Apr 2018, 9am–5pm
Organised by the Arts & Place Working Group 'Big Meet 8: Artists and the Arts in Place-Making' took place at Jeffrey Hall, UCL on the 18 April 2018.
Tue 6 Mar 2018, 9am–5pm
Primary and the national Arts and Place Working Group joined forces to invite the arts, cultural and built environment sectors from the East Midlands region to engage in a conversation around embedding the arts and artists in place (2018).
Fri 14 Jul 2017, 9am–5pm
The first regional conversation was held in Preston in 2017, examining what a future national government policy for the public arts could look like.
2012
Across the rooftops of several prominent buildings in Geneva’s Plaine de Plainpalais are nine neon sculptures, which create an additional visual space in an already dense urban environment. The project, 'Urban Parallax' was officially inaugurated in October 2012 with an exhibition and an international conference at the Salle du Faubourg.
2018 – ongoing
As Part of Peabody’s long-term regeneration plans to realise Thamesmead’s potential and build 20,000 new homes, they are embedding culture into the heart of their plans from the beginning. Their cultural strategy ensures that they work with local communities to create culture as part of daily life, and partnerships with local and international partners has enabled them to raise the profile and ambition of Thamesmead and put it on the map.
2011
Superkilen Park in Copenhagen is a collaboration between BIG (architects), Topotek1 (landscape architects) and SUPERFLEX (artists) to create a public space that celebrates the diversity of its residents. The park is 355,000 square feet and boasts 60 installations of urban best practice from around the world.
2017
The City Speaks was commissioned as part of Hull UK City of Culture 2017 and designed to act as a 21st century Speakers’ Corner in which open-air public speaking took on epic proportions as spoken words were translated to text and relayed on one of the towers supporting Hull’s tidal barrier.