Urban Art Forum

Urban Art Forum (UAF) is a ULI UK initiative that brings together the cultural and creative industries together with the property sector to advocate creative placemaking as inherent social and economic value for the built environment.

The UAF membership is a diverse mix of professionals across arts, creative industries, architecture, design, planning and development and works together with UK and Global ULI objectives to guide new solutions and share best practice for including culture in development as central to a place’s wellbeing. The Forum is currently chaired by Sherry Dobbin, who started her role in July 2020.

The Forum showcases innovative creators and patrons, examines planned and realised artistic works that enhance stakeholder value, and seeks to understand the collaborative processes that make urban art possible.

The UAF ‘Including Culture in Development’ guide will soon be available to all members on Knowledge Finder. We will update this page as soon as this is online.

**Sherry Dobbin**
Chair, ULI UK Urban Art Forum
Partner, Managing & Cultural Director, FutureCity

Sherry Dobbin, Urban Art Forum Chair

Sherry Dobbin is Partner at Futurecity UK, a global placemaking and public art commissioning agency based in London where she consults for developers, cities, business improvement districts to establish permanent and programmatic cultural sustainability for place identity. She has worked across all artforms for thirty-five years, led cultural organisations, and curated for public realm in four continents.

She served as Director of Times Square Arts and Creative Director for Times Square Alliance from 2012-2016 and founded Midnight Moment, which is the world’s largest and longest running digital art exhibition, shown on the electronic billboards every night since 2012.

She has print-published contributions for ULI-UK’s Including Culture in Development; (upcoming) Placemaking Handbook, Routledge Press; Improving Places; Greater London Authority; Selected 9 , LOOP Festival of Moving Image 2004 in Barcelona; Teatp No. 26, Moscow; The New Spacer, State Theatre of Moscow; Theatre journal for Yale University Press; What Urban Media Art Can Do, Public Art Lab, Berlin; and The Watermill Center, Daco Press.

In addition to the Urban Art Forum for the Urban Land Institute-UK; she is also a FRSA of the Royal Society of Arts; and sits on Board of Directors for organisations ranging from focus on architecture; cultural and gender diversity; moving image in public space, and performing arts in public and digital platforms.