Carmona, M;
Renninger, A;
(2017)
The Royal Fine Art Commission and 75 years of English design review: the final 15 years, 1984–1999.
Planning Perspectives. An international journal of history, planning and the environment
, 32
(4)
pp. 577-599.
10.1080/02665433.2017.1286609.
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Abstract
This paper is the second of two linked papers that focus on the work of the Royal Fine Art Commission (RFAC), which for three quarters of a century held the mantel of the UK Government’s advisor on design in the built environment. This paper tells the story of the organization’s final 15 years when, under a new and charismatic leader, the Commission substantially changed its modus operandi, and came out of the shadows, although without ever fully embracing the modern era of government. Analysis of the archives are supplemented by what the limited available literature tells us about the RFAC and by a small number of interviews with key stakeholders with first-hand experience of the operation of the RFAC; those who either worked for it, were responsible for it within Government, or were reviewed by it. The experience offers valuable insights into the practices and problematics of design governance that today, internationally, forms one of the keystones of modern day planning.
| Type: | Article |
|---|---|
| Title: | The Royal Fine Art Commission and 75 years of English design review: the final 15 years, 1984–1999 |
| Open access status: | An open access version is available from UCL Discovery |
| DOI: | 10.1080/02665433.2017.1286609 |
| Publisher version: | http://doi.org/10.1080/02665433.2017.1286609 |
| Language: | English |
| Additional information: | © 2017 The Author(s). Published by Informa UK Limited, trading as Taylor & Francis Group. This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/). |
| Keywords: | Royal Fine Art Commission, Design review, Design governance |
| UCL classification: | UCL UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL BEAMS UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL BEAMS > Faculty of the Built Environment UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL BEAMS > Faculty of the Built Environment > The Bartlett School of Planning |
| URI: | https://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/10044089 |
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