Futurecity

Futurecity is a leading cultural placemaking consultancy based in London with an international portfolio.

Futurecity has produced over 250 cultural strategies for private-sector and public-sector

real estate clients across the world. Futurecity creates culture-led placemaking and destination strategies, broker cultural partnerships, deliver major cultural projects and devises innovative strategies, which have been sensitively constructed and developed into unique destinations across the UK, Europe, North America, the Middle East, and Australia.

Futurecity considers placemaking as the key to unlocking the power and potential of our urban spaces. At the beginning of any project, Futurecity encourages property developers, master planners, architects, engineers, landscape designers and city planners to use culture-led placemaking to provide a narrative and vision for a multitude of projects from brownfield sites to new city quarters where the studio-tested and honed their placemaking methodology.

Fifteen years of unparalleled access to the global real estate sector has enabled the studio to achieve its reputation as the world’s leading placemaking agency. Futurecity’s strategic efforts have facilitated distinct identities and destinations for prestigious commercial, mixed-use, retail, and residential developments.

The studio persistently pushes boundaries of art practice, by exploring bold new ideas and challenging the status quo. Mark Davy – Founder of Futurecity describes their portfolio as a ‘gallery without walls’.

WHY WE JOINED

For 15 years Futurecity has promoted the importance of culture as a driving narrative across the real estate sector, from Build to Rent and Business Investment Districts to Residential, Retail, and Creative Districts. We joined the NLA with a Culture led Placemaking event in 2014. In 2018 we published a manifesto as part of our NLA exhibition promoting the digital and immersive arts in architecture, landscape, and infrastructure. In 2023 we have re-joined the NLA at a time of upheaval and societal change, where more than ever culture provides ‘software not hardware’ and acts as a catalyst, lens and narrator.

Mark Davy, CEO & Founder, Futurecity

Contributors Sorted by recent

Maheer Khan

Mark Davy

Contact Information

Futurecity
Exchange, Somerset House,
The Strand
London, WC2R 1LA

Tel: 020 7407 0500
Email: info@futurecity.co.uk
Web: www.futurecity.co.uk

Projects Sorted by recent

WEMBLEY PARK CULTURAL PLACEMAKING STRATEGY DELIVERY

Built

Futurecity's cultural placemaking strategy for Wembley Park worked across Quintain’s teams to reenvision the site, flipping the masterplan on its head and viewing Olympic Way as a cultural spine.

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London City Island_Cultural Strategy

Built

Futurecity developed a cultural strategy for Leamouth Peninsula which highlighted the area’s cultural offer, emphasising trails, public spaces and creative space provision.

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The Arts Quarter

Proposed

The Arts Quarter is a vision for a new, world-class destination for arts and culture. A unique opportunity to transform the back-of-house streets in London's West End into a vibrant cultural hub.

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Wembley Park Cultural Placemaking Strategy Delivery

Built

Futurecity's cultural placemaking strategy for Wembley Park worked across Quintain’s teams to reenvision the site, flipping the masterplan on its head and viewing Olympic Way as a cultural spine.

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WHY WE JOINED

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Maheer Khan

Mark Davy

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