Lucy Musgrave is Co-director of General Public Agency, a London-based consultancy firm specializing in public realm and cultural masterplanning and is a leading practitioner on issues surrounding sustainable communities, social architecture and urban design. The consultancy provides services that encompass the spatial, social and cultural integration of new development to create long-term vision, high quality spatial strategies and a meaningful community offer.
She was previously director of The Architecture Foundation, a campaigning charity and cultural organization, where over an 8 year period she developed programs of action research in the field of social inclusion and the built environment.
Lucy Musgrave has been responsible for pioneering new thinking, methodologies, and evaluation for community planning and creative regeneration strategies. She staged a series of influential “public forums” on the future of London in 1996 which attracted over 15,000 people and effected government policy. 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 has also produced the two UK government-sponsored directories on the best emerging architects in Britain.
She is the co-author with her partner Clare Cumberlidge of Design & Landscape for People: New Approaches to Renewal, an international survey of cross-disciplinary practice.
Amongst many advisory and board roles, she has been a member of the UK government’s Urban Sounding Board; the Greater London Authority’s Public Realm Advisory Group; the Mies van der Rohe European Prize for Public Space; the Young Architect of the Year Awards; a trustee of The Photographers’ Gallery, London; an external examiner at the Department of Architecture & Spatial Design, London Metropolitan University; and is an honorary fellow of the RIBA.
She is also a founding trustee of the Sheila McKechnie Foundation, a new charity set up to support the next generation of campaigners.
[last updated 22-Aug-07]