Lucy Bullivant PhD Hon FRIBA is a place vision strategist, curatorial director, award-winning author and public speaker born in London to architect parents who instilled a passion in her for architecture, urban and landscape design she hasn't grown out of yet. Through her international exhibitions, conferences and publishing projects, public speaking and consultancy work she has consistently advocated higher design standards and experimental multidisciplinary strategies to help counter the negative effects of globalisation.

Lucy was elected an Honorary Fellow of RIBA (Royal Institute of British Architects) in 2010, and is a Expert - Specialist, Design Council, London, a Trustee of Temple Bar Trust, and a Liveryman, Worshipful Company of Chartered Architects. A cultural historian with a PhD in contemporary urbanism from the School of Architecture, Art and Design, London Metropolitan University, and a Master's degree from the Royal College of Art, she initially worked as an art curator and director of open art exhibitions.

Lucy launched her consultancy business, Lucy Bullivant & Associates, in 1984, working internationally with leading museums, galleries, cultural institutions, local government, publishers and corporate bodies. Her roles have included Heinz Curator of Architectural Programmes at the Royal Academy of Arts, London, Guest Curator for Vitra Design Museum, Germany, Curator and British Commissioner at the XIX Triennale di Milano, and curator of several conferences at venues in London including Tate Modern, ICA, RIBA and the Royal College of Art. She is a chair, Lambeth Council, and a member of the Enfield Place and Design Quality Panel, and the Brent Design Review Panel. She currently collaborates with Bydel Bjerke local authority, Oslo, on the Sletteløkka cultural programme; and worked with Enfield Council as a place strategist on Meridian Water, the 85ha mixed use development scheme in Edmonton (2016-18). She was Renaissance Advocate to Yorkshire Forward (Renaissance Cities and Towns, 2007-10), and a member of the Acquisitions Committee of the FRAC architecture centre, Orléans, France (2011-2016). She works as a specialist architectural expert witness in planning appeals.

Lucy is in demand internationally as a keynote speaker and chair of events for bodies including AIA NYC Urban Center, NYIT. Cooper Union, Syracuse University, University of Houston,, UCLA, the V&A, IAAC and FAD, Barcelona; Tampere University; Strelka Institute, Moscow; UCLA, Los Angeles; CCA, Montreal; University of Rome; University of Udine; Tate Modern; Barbican Art Gallery, London; the British Council, London College of Communications; Westminster University; South Bank University; Plymouth University; Napier University, Edinburgh, Sustain magazine (UK) and de Baak, Amsterdam, The Netherlands. She is a regular speaker at key global urban forums such as London Design Biennale (2018); Nordic Urban Forum, Helsinki (2018); CIAM 6 (2017); Moscow Urban Forum; World Cultural Cities symposium, Shanghai (2016); COAC, Barcelona (2016); TEDxVienna (2014); Smart Cities Forum, Barcelona and Casablanca (2013; 2016), and represented by Speakers Associates.

Lucy's successful ground-breaking exhibitions, conferences and talks feature exceptional international practitioners from a range of disciplines, and deal with issues relating to architecture's role as a social art; tactical urbanism; alternative strategies for public housing design; responsive environments; children's environments within and beyond the Western world and inclusive design. Space Invaders, for the British Council, and Kid size: the material world of childhood, for Vitra Design Museum, Germany, have toured globally, and Urbanistas: women innovators in architecture, urban and landscape design, for Roca London Gallery (2015), also shown at the Core, Newcastle, in association with Northern Architecture. Lucy has staged exhibitions at the Oslo Architecture Triennale, the Bi-City Biennale of Architecture and Urbanism, Shenzhen, and the São Paulo Bienal of Architecture in the past five years.

She has staged and chaired major international conferences including Softspace at Tate Modern (2007), Anglo Files: UK architecture's rising generation (RIBA, 2005), Home Front, on new housing design (Architectural Association, London, 2003), 4dspace (ICA, 2003; AA, 2005), Spaced Out III (ICA, 1997), the Archis series (RIBA, the AA, the Bartlett, the Photographers' Gallery, 1998-2001) and Shared Territories (RCA, 2006).

Lucy is a widely respected and internationally read award-winning author and critic in the field of architecture, urban design and participatory placemaking. Her book Masterplanning Futures, supported by CABE (Routledge, 2012, print and digital editions; second edition due 2021) won the Urban Design Group Book of the Year in February 2014. Lucy is Guest Editor of 4d Hyper-local: a Cultural Toolkit for the Open Source City (AD/Wiley), 2017, and co-author with Thomas Ermacora of Recoded City: Co-Creating Urban Futures, on participatory placemaking, Routledge, 2015.

She is also the author of New Arcadians: emerging UK architects (Merrell, 2012), and Anglo Files: UK architecture's rising generation, an extensive analysis of young UK architects and their cultural and political context, which received an Arts Council of England grant (Thames & Hudson, Princeton Architectural Press and DVA, 2005). Her publications Responsive Environments: architecture, art and design (V&A Contemporary, 2006), 4dsocial (2007) and 4dspace, as Guest Editor (AD/Wiley, 2005) were the first of their kind to investigate the impact of interactive architecture and design. She has two essays in Digital Blur: creative practice at the boundaries of design, architecture and art, a multi-author publication, Libri, 2010.

Lucy has written and published many articles internationally, for Forbes, The Guardian newspaper's City and International Development sections, The Architects' Journal, Architectural Review, Domus, Volume, Indesign, a+u (from 2005 her feature series charted the relationship between urban design and landscape architecture), Harvard Design Magazine, Platform and The Plan; numerous essays for exhibition catalogues eg. 'No More Tabula Rasa: Progressive Architecture Practices in England', was published in The New Architectural Pragmatism, A Harvard Design Magazine Reader, 5, University of Minnesota Press, 2007 (ed. William S. Saunders; essays by Kenneth Frampton, Alejandro Zaera-Polo, Stan Allen, Hal Foster et al). In 2013 she founded her webzine, Urbanista.org, about liveable urbanism and in 2020, the Urban Manifesto live-streaming platform she co-curates and cohosts with Prathima Manohar.

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August 2021