Publica’s Founding Director Lucy Musgrave has been appointed a Royal Designer for Industry (RDI) by the Royal Society of Arts, at the 2024 RDI Address.

“I want to extend an enormous thank you to the RSA for recognising urban design with civic amenity at its heart. Good urban design requires many hands, disciplines and collaboration to address the varied perspectives on any urban neighbourhood. This is done at Publica by our outstanding team.

We research character: the spatial, social, cultural, environmental, economic and historic specificity of place. Our built work, based on this methodology, has resulted in the complete redesign of some significant streets and spaces in central London and wider.

Lucy was appointed alongside Oscar-winning film production designer, Shona Heath and landscape designer, Tom Stuart-Smith, pictured above. 

The title is awarded annually by the RSA to designers of all disciplines who have achieved ‘sustained design excellence, work of aesthetic value a significant benefit to society.’ It is the highest accolade for designers in the UK.