In Certain Places worked with architectural practice Research Design to examine the original plans for the Harris Museum & Art Gallery, drawn up by architect James Hibbert, and to create a new temporary staircase, which invited people to move directly from the space of Preston’s Market Square into the heart of the Harris building. The Flights took people through the ‘front door’ of the building on the first floor, allowing them to experience the neo-classical, Grade I listed building in an entirely new way.

Level Playing Field (2013) was a temporary public work by artist David Cross which was designed to socially engage with the people and place of earthquake ravaged Christchurch New Zealand. In February 2011, Christchurch was hit by a number of earthquakes the largest of which measured a magnitude 7 killing 185 people and levelling the city to the ground. Christchurch has since been considered as the worst damaged city since the firebombing of Dresden in WWII.

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.

Making Places is an initiative by Waltham Forest Council to deliver creative projects across the borough, which will have a lasting impact on communities and neighbourhoods. 

The Story of Doe Lea was an interactive project, using film, photography, events, walks, talks and workshops to engage local residents in portraying the story of the village of Doe Lea.

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.

Free tank: The retrospective view of the pathway is a permanent public artwork created by renowned British artist Roger Hiorns as the final element of the Temple Quay waterfront master-plan.

The renovation of the Stoney Street pedestrian public right of way was conceived and designed as a route and a destination social space to articulate through the use of materials the disjuncture between the crust of human occupation above ground and the bedrock beneath.

Photographs of the Jewish quarter in Berlin from pre-world war II were projected on the buildings and streets where they were originally taken and then photographed to remind the city of a part of its identity sometimes forgotten.

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.

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.

The People’s Canopy was a mobile architectural structure designed specifically for the city of Preston by award-winning Beijing architects People’s Architecture Office. The People’s Canopy was a two-storey high expandable roof structure on bicycle wheels. The ten units were designed to collapse to the size of a double decker bus to be pedalled from one location to another and thereby transform underused public spaces; spaces for auto transport are turned into spaces for pedestrians and events, and open streets connected. The aim of the project was to develop a bespoke, temporary architectural intervention for Preston that would create new, visible connections between the university and the city centre, as well as celebrate UCLan’s international links.

Longbridge Public Art Project (LPAP) by WERK was a contemporary art project embedded in one of the largest suburban regeneration schemes in the U.K. The scheme led by St. Modwen PLC transformed the area that was once the site of a thriving motor factory (1905-2005) and infamous political emblem of British Manufacturing into a new town.

After the devastating Great East Japan Earthquake of 2011, which caused seven meltdowns at three nuclear reactors, energy efficiency and alternative energy sources received intensified interest in Japan. One year later, the 2012 Smart Illumination Yokohama Festival commissioned the international debut of Speed of Light. The festival focused on sustainability and showcased LED lights, solar panels, and other green energy generation and storage techniques. Speed of Light, an artistic intervention, was developed by NVA, a Scottish public art organization whose work seeks to redefine urban and rural landscapes through collective action. NVA is an acronym of nacionale vitae activa, a Latin phrase describing ‘the right to influence public affairs.’

In 2010 The Propeller Group rented a public billboard at a bus shelter in Ho Chi Minh City for 3 months to stage a public art project. A shrewd and insightful move in a country where all visual elements in the landscape— from public art to advertising—are controlled through different censorship bodies, Temporary Public Gallery was intended to explore matters concerning public space, public art, privatized commercial space and the politics/ censorship behind the regulation of these spaces in Ho Chi Minh City. This project began with the group’s interest in how the visual elements of a landscape not only reflect the socio-political changes of that locale, but can have an affect on it as well. Expressing a desire to see how they could contribute to this affect in the rapidly changing landscape of Viet Nam, the collective attempted to locate a loophole in the system by renting out advertising space to curate artworks in public, challenging notions of public space, advertising, and public art in Viet Nam.

The ‘Prince Boulevard Public Art Program’ was an initiative to commission 6 permanent public artworks for this new art and cultural ‘district.’ Four local artists were selected - Tu Wei-Chen, Chen Cheng-Hsun, Wang Wen-Chih and Hsu Chuen-Shi - together with Dan Raralio from the Philippines and Leung Mee-Ping from Hong Kong.

The Sandy Carpet known as Farsh Sheni is a sand made carpet created annually, which has been crafted for the past 6 years on the southern island of Hormuz in Iran, Persian Gulf. The outstanding character, which makes this extraordinary carpet unique, is the application of more than one hundred colorful sands, which have been excavated from local mines and hills on this island.

The 1000 families residents of Ndogpassi III in Douala, Cameroon, are mainly migrants from the hinterland in search of a better future. The government has no answer to this influx of people and are indifferent to their welfare. Basic services such as water, electricity and garbage collection are often missing.

Located in a kiosk within the park surrounding the Carnegie Museums of Pittsburgh, Conflict Kitchen is both a restaurant and a socially engaged public art project that only serves cuisine from countries with which the USA is in conflict. The project, created by Jon Rubin and Dawn Weleski, rotates identities every few months in relation to current geopolitical events and has included North Korea, Cuba, Iran, and Venezuela. The current version of Conflict Kitchen is Afghanistan.

The exhibition project Undergo.The Parallels took place in 2012, in Tbilisi pedestrian underground passages, involving 29 artists and collectives included emergent local ones. For 70 years Tbilisi, the capital of Georgia, had been part of the Soviet Union, that built the underground passages. Nowadays these undergrounds are still under development, in some of them new “organized” commercial infrastructures are built beside the unofficial ones, others are under the danger of collision and have lost their practical function, becoming a place for garbage or public toilets.

Bibliobandido, or Book Bandit, wears a disguise and “ravenous for stories, roves the jungles terrorizing little kids until they write stories to nourish his insatiable appetite.” Launched by artist Marisa Jahn in collaboration with villagers in El Pital, Honduras (near La Ceiba), the program provides book-making, story-telling, and basic literacy support through a volunteer “library committee,” consisting of about 15 adults and pre-teens.

Upon arriving at Hauser & Wirth gallery in Somerset in 2018 viewers were met by The Goat Pavilion, a striking collaboration between the artist Fernando Garcia-Dory and architect Takeshi Hayatsu of Hayatsu Architects. Commissioned by Adam Sutherland, as part of the group exhibition 'The Land We Live In – The Land We Left Behind' Goat Pavilion was a functional structure for goat farmers to use, including a fodder and feeding station and a milking station. The pavilion was inspired by the verticality of a mountain, echoing Garcia Dory’s earlier residency at Grizedale Arts, Cumbria in 2010-2011.

In 2012 artist Rebecca Chesney was commissioned to make I’m blue, you’re yellow , two acres (8000m2) of meadow planted in Everton Park in Liverpool. One acre is made entirely of blue flowering species, the other acre is entirely of yellow flowering species.

A space of non-denominative gathering, the chapel is conceived as a space of reconciliation. The

walls of the Chapel are created of bespoke folding chairs. In its complete form, the space is a monolith, without entry or exit.

A series of free online conversations curated by the National Arts and Place Consortium shining a light on exemplar projects amplifying the artists' voice in placemaking and exploring the future role of artists working in the public realm.

City Club is a wide-ranging project by Gareth Jones and Nils Norman that seeks to embed alternative models of contemporary art within the fabric of Central Milton Keynes. Their five-year collaboration on City Club has been an exploration of shared interests in public space, modernism and the social meaning of design. In keeping with their ambition to work across disciplines, the core of the project has evolved to become an extended collaboration with 6a architects and designer Mark El-khatib.

Sensing the City undertook a series of site-specific studies of urban rhythms, atmospheres, textures, practices and patterns of behaviour in the city of Coventry. Through four micro-projects, it made use of the sensate, performing human body effectively as an in situ data-gathering sensor, proceeding to apply technologies of sound/oral recording, photography, dance, performance and film to process and document this fieldwork activity.