Weekend Passport: FutureCity And Urban Development Through Art

By Jenny Friedland
Column (2019) by Studio Swine at Lexicon, City Road is the art collective’s first permanent public artwork in London, commissioned by Mount Anvil and curated by Futurecity. It was announced to the public in May 2019.
Column (2019) by Studio Swine at Lexicon, City Road is the art collective’s first permanent public artwork in London, commissioned by Mount Anvil and curated by Futurecity. It was announced to the public in May 2019. Ron Bambridge
Column (2019) by Studio Swine at Lexicon, City Road is the art collective’s first permanent public artwork in London, commissioned by Mount Anvil and curated by Futurecity. It was announced to the public in May 2019.
Column (2019) by Studio Swine at Lexicon, City Road is the art collective’s first permanent public artwork in London, commissioned by Mount Anvil and curated by Futurecity. It was announced to the public in May 2019. Ron Bambridge

Weekend Passport: FutureCity And Urban Development Through Art

By Jenny Friedland
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Every Friday, our cultural contributor and global citizen Nari Safavi joins us for “Weekend Passport,” a segment dedicated to showing you how you can travel the world without ever leaving Chicago. This week, we bring you a special edition from the Chicago Council on Global Affairs’ Pritzker Forum on Global Cities. Mark Davy, founder of FutureCity and Forum attendee, joins us during a live broadcast from the Forum at Chicago’s Revel Fulton Market. He has developed major projects in cities including Boston, Sydney and London. In 2016, he co-founded FuturePace, a “strategic cultural partnership with Pace London.” Through FuturePace’s Gallery Without Walls program, artists develop large-scale art projects for global cities featuring light and digital technology. Davy shares his perspective on art as a force for urban development.

Worldview has partnered with the Chicago Council on Global Affairs to bring you voices from the Pritzker Forum on Global Cities, which runs June 5-7, 2019.