Cultural Placemaking
Ed Watson
Founder, Ed Watson & Associates
Founder, Ed Watson & Associates
Ed Watson
Prior to setting up EW&A Ed led high profile projects that have transformed London’s urban landscape. Working with Argent at Kings Cross and securing the arrival of the Francis Crick Institute to the area and culminating in the investment of £1 billion by Google in its new offices.
He also headed-up Camden’s own development programme, the Community Investment Programme and set up the Euston Strategic Board generating the principles for wider regeneration of Euston linked to the arrival of HS2. Moving to Westminster City Council he established a sustainable place based approach to managing change and development and headed-up the high profile West End Partnership. At EW&A clients include Arup, Stories, Linkcity/Bouygues, Moorfields Eye Hospital, Urban Space Management and British Land.
Danny Keir
Director, Enki Music
Director, Enki Music
Danny Keir
Danny is Co founder at Enki Music & Enki Collective. In brief…
- – Experienced music consultant and artist manager.
- – Spoken at music and cultural events all over the world.
- – Gave a TEDx talk.
- – Worked on the first music city and music policy strategies with Sound Diplomacy.
- – Managed 100s of global release campaigns.
- – Grow vegetables and run a lot.
Sherry Dobbin
Partner, Futurecity
Partner, Futurecity
Sherry Dobbin
Partner with Founder, Mark Davy, focusing on the management and development of the global placemaking agency. Sherry brokers sustainable partnerships cross-sectors and between public-privatecivic agencies, as well as strategic work considers new models and measurements, thought leadership in property and cultural sectors, governance and delivery plans. Public Art projects cover permanent sculptural works, programming, and cultural infrastructure. Current projects cover four continents and clients include developments, districts, consortium, BIDs and cities. Prior to Futurecity, Sherry was Creative Director for Times Square, NYC and and has twenty years cultural administration and production experience across all art forms. She is a regular speaker internationally across the cultural and property sectors; member of ULI Urban Art Forum; co-author of the publication Including Culture in Development.
Mark Davy
Founder & CEO, Futurecity
Founder & CEO, Futurecity
Mark Davy
MarkDavy founded Futurecity in 2007 as a culture and placemaking consultancy and a platform for the culture-driven development of our urban centres. He is a passionate leader driven by a commitment to cultural excellence in our cities and his commercial and intellectual knowledge place him at the forefront of the debate about the changing role and purpose of modern cities. As the Founder of Futurecity, Mark has won a large number of major culture and placemaking projects, across London and in other cities in the UK and played a leadership role in setting up new creative districts and neighbourhoods in London and elsewhere. He has raised millions of pounds of new funding for the arts by persuading the private sector of the importance of culture led placemaking and the role of the arts in creating new places. He has brokered new galleries, studios and funding for the Royal Academy, Chelsea College of Art and Design and the Royal College of Art and created the conditions for the English National Ballet to relocate to a new funded facility on City Island in London’s East End for property developer Ballymore.