Consultancy: Placemaking: Research

Richard works with individuals and organisations to articulate their aspirations and define strategic roadmaps for achieving them.  He works with entrepreneurs, start-ups, SMEs, NGOs and strategic business units, using a process of ideation, strategic planning, project analysis, facilitation and mentoring. Richard creates strategies, designs projects, develops policies and evaluates actions in the social change, urban development, cultural and heritage sectors internationally.

"a force of energy with visionary ideas"

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how Richard can help you

 

Richard provides consultancy services, working with individuals and organisations to achieve goals and evolve practice. This includes business development, strategic planning and the creation of strategic initiatives. Richard also mentors leaders, senior management, producers and artists. more…..

what they say about Richard

 
  • "a force of energy who brings visionary creative ideas to cultural projects with a high degree of professionalism, commitment and integrity..."

  • "...injects equal amounts of creativity, challenge, fun and pragmatism..."

  • "...a brilliantly connected ideas man, who applies rigorous and knowledgeable planning..."

  • “…pushed our strategic aims to the cutting edge of critical thought…”

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about Richard’s consultancy

In his professional practice, Richard brings people together around ideas and local contexts to ask what is possible - and then how do we make that happen. Drawing on over 30 years of international experience, he helps partners achieve organisational and personal aspirations through:

services offered: strategic planning, facilitation, mentoring, placemaking.

strategic planning

  • the exploration and articulation of ideas and ambitions for individuals, organisations, programmes or projects

  • the definition and articulation of vision, mission, values and foundations, along with goals and targets

  • the design of practical and achievable programmes of strategicactivity that realise these ideas and ambitions

  • the creation of medium and long term strategies for policy, organisational and practice development

  • the design of project programmes that directly support organisational and audience/stakeholder strategy

  • facilitated business and project planning, including detailed short, medium and long term schedules of activity

  • the creation of financial management systems designed as management tools to keep you on track with targets and ambitions

  • strategy development for capacity building

  • the creation and delivery of artistic, social and urban development projects

  • arts project management.

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design and facilitation of forums and group meetings

Richard has created and delivered a variety of face-to-face and online conferences and networking events, acting as Executive Producer, Creative Director, Content Director and/or Project Manager. He is experienced in working with partners to create high quality stimulating and impactful events that inform policy and practice locally, nationally and internationally.

Richard also facilitates working group meetings to achieve specific objectives. This can be business planning, programmes of strategic activity, identifying solutions to issues or barriers for growth, exploring new possibilities or defining policy.

leadership mentoring and coaching

This includes exploring possibilities and ambitions in order to identify a personalised action plan that utilises strategic networking, market positioning, action for evidence, personal growth and learning to achieve significant results. Richard has worked with CEOs of start-ups, SMEs, NGOs and strategic business units as well as internationally renowned producers, artists and makers.

urban consultation for placemaking

Richard has developed a series of consultation methodologies for urban development, design and planning. These see Richard work to the commissioning client’s brief, but by collaborating with a variety of communities in a specific neighbourhood or development location to identify relevant, timely and appropriate solutions that utlise hyper-local assets.

Methods include asset and actor mapping, photography, story-telling, future speculation and gamification, so that Richard is able to focus on harnessing opportunities and reducing barriers.

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Richard thinks about placemaking in this way…

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about Richard’s research

 

Richard holds a Masters by research in interdisciplinary urban design (distinction) from UCL University College London Bartlett Faculty of the Built Environment, where he focused on citizen participation in smart urbanism (embedded technologies and data analysis for urban management and city development). He is currently extending this research at PhD level at UCL Bartlett’s Centre for Advanced Spatial Analysis, exploring disruptive modes of citizen participation in the development of the urban form.

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Richard has also co-authored several publications. Check here….

talk about ideas, discuss your aspirations or make something happen:

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