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PROJECTS

The Urban Culture Institute works to promote excellence in the arts and culture. Our mission is to support community building through the facilitation of public art and development of strategies for the public realm. We champion the following principles:

• Commitment to excellence
• High aesthetic and cultural value
• Place-specific approach
• Inclusive and participatory

• Community building
​• Placemaking
• Sustainable approach and outcomes
• Research-based
and results-focused
• Team spirit
• Education through the arts


The Urban Culture Institute offers a multidisciplinary practice working with diverse clients, institutions, communities, artists, design teams and professionals in the creative and service sectors.
 Our e
xpertise and projects range from advisory services and public art facilitation to cultural planning and think tanks. We have worked with a range of diverse partners and communities in the United States and in Germany.

Select projects
Boston Children's Hospital New Clinical Buildings 

Codman Square Park Redesign
Dorchester Art Identifiers Coppens Square Park
Germany's Art in Architecture from 1950 to 1979
Gourdin Park African American Veterans Memorial
HarborArts Boston
Howes Park Civil Rights Tribute
Kulturpark Berlin
MBTA Silver Line Extension
MBTA Red Line Wollaston Station

Mather School Green Space Improvement
Memphis Art Walk
Main Street Reimagined in Worcester, Massachusetts
Placemaking Network at the Boston Society of Architects/AIA
Ringer Park
Social Muscle Club Berlin
TEMPOart Portland, Maine
To Extremes: Public Art in a Changing World

PARTNERS

The Urban Culture Institute forms partnerships with public, private and non-profit organizations as well as artists to pursue a broad range of artistic and cultural endeavors, placemaking and community building projects. Current and past project partners include:

Allston Brighton Community Development Corporation
Atelier Loidl
Art Museum of the University of Memphis
The Bakery
Berliner Bezirksamt Treptow-Köpenick
Richard Bertman
Boston Art Commission
​
Boston Parks and Recreation
​
Edward Ingersoll Browne Trust Fund of the City of Boston
Boston Children's Hospital
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​Boston Society of Architects
Bundesamt für Bauwesen und Raumordnung
cultureNOW

Konstantin Dimopoulos
Codman Square Neighborhood Council
Dorchester Arts Collaborative
Elsewhere
Fenway Alliance

Fenway Community Development Corporation
​Friends of Coppens Square
Fort Point Arts Community
Friends of Fort Point Channel
Grün Berlin
Imago Foundation for the Arts
Institute of Contemporary Art Boston
Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority

Mather Elementary School 
​
Matthew Mazzotta
Medford Arts Council
On Location Memphis International Film and Music Festival
Podbielski Contemporary

Social Muscle Club
​Somerville Arts Council
Spinello Projects
TEMPOart

Wentworth Institute of Technology
City of Worcester
​
Veterans and Friends of Gourdin Park
Worcester Cultural Coalition
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