General Public Agency

		Lucy Musgrave was previously Director of the campaigning charity and cultural organisation The Architecture Foundation where over an 8 year period she developed programmes of action research in the field of social inclusion and the built environment. Lucy was responsible for pioneering new thinking, methodologies, and evaluation for community planning and creative regeneration strategies. She staged a series of public forums on the future of London which attracted over 15,000 people. Following the “Roadshow” initiative to generate creative community planning proposals for derelict or underused public sites in London, she produced the publication “Creative Spaces: a toolkit for participatory urban design”. She produced for the acclaimed directories of the best young architects in Britain, both publications supported by the Government. She was a member of the Government’s Urban Sounding Board, the DTI Foresight Working Party, Planning & Community Participation, DEFRA Sustainable Development Unit Land Use and Major Land Owners group and the GLA’s Public Realm Advisory Group. She was also a trustee of The Photographers’ Gallery, jury member of the Mies van der Rohe European Prize for Urban Public Space, and for the RIBA Awards, and an external examiner at London Metropolitan University. She is a chair of the Sheila McKechnie Foundation, a jury member of the Holcim Sustainability Awards, Switzerland 2008, a school governor, and an honorary fellow of the RIBA.
General Public Agency was founded in 2003 by Clare Cumberlidge and Lucy Musgrave. Clare Cumberlidge was previously one of Britain’s leading independent curators and is an expert in inter-disciplinary creative practice. She specialized in developing new areas for artistic practice (pioneering the relationship between art and science and between contemporary artists and museology). As a curator, cultural planner and art consultant she has wide-ranging experience on ground-breaking projects within regeneration and the public realm. Over the past 15 years she has developed innovative approaches to collaborative and cross-disciplinary work that involve creative practitioners in the built environment and engage the public with processes of renewal and change. She has devised and delivered a number of national case studies in cultural practice and is a leading commentator on the future of cultural policy and practice and contributes in an advisory capacity to cultural institutions such as the RSA and Calouste Gulbenkian. Clients included The British Council, The Science Museum, The Poetry Society, The Architecture Foundation, Arts Council England, Institute of International Visual Arts, NESTA, Wellcome Trust and North Kensington Amenity Trust. Commissioned artists include Gillian Wearing, Tim Head, Jordan Baseman, Cornelia Parker, Yinka Shonibare, Tacita Dean, Brian Catling, Bridget Smith, Kathrin Böhm and Adam Chodzko.