Mark Davy

Founder Futurecity Placemaking agency, Exec Member Land Economic Association), RPO Advisory Panel, RSA Fellow, Member of Expert Panel for Culture (NLA), Advisor National Trust Midlands-East of England

Mark Davy: Founder and CEO of Futurecity

Mark Davy is the Founder and CEO of Futurecity, a multi-disciplinary agency focused on culture-driven placemaking.1 2 3 He founded the company in 2007 with offices in London and Cambridge.3

Futurecity creates cultural strategies, brokers cultural partnerships, and delivers major arts projects for clients across the public and private sectors.3 Under Davy's leadership, the company has produced over 125 cultural strategies, brokered over 20 cultural partnerships, and worked on over 100 artist commissions for clients across four continents.3

Davy believes that integrating art and culture at the beginning of any development project is key to unlocking the power and potential of city spaces.3 He encourages architects, engineers, landscape designers, developers, and city planners to collaborate with artists to provide a contemporary narrative for towns, cities, and urban centers.3

Some of Futurecity's prominent projects include:

A cultural placemaking strategy for Wembley Park
The BasildON cultural placemaking strategy that informed a successful £1.2m Arts Council People & Places grant application
Turner Prize nominee Mark Titchner's Me. How. Now. at London Bridge Station
Studio Swine's Infinity Blue at the Eden Project in Cornwall
Conrad Shawcross RA's Optic Cloak at Greenwich Peninsula3

Futurecity is also the long-standing curator of the Gallery at Foyles, bringing a program of public exhibitions to the fifth floor of central London's foremost independent bookseller.3