Richard puts projects together with a variety of partners, often new to eachother and new to collaborating in public space. He has raised over £3.5million for organisations. Projects and programmes Richard has self-initiated and delivered for clients as commissions include:

Place Markers & People Markers: 2016/17/18
Richard designed and delivered a series of community consultation labs exploring new ways to get to know a local constituency, its values and its concerns staged in a public space. For Place Markers, members of the public were invited to contribute to a conversation about people, place and resilience through three gaming mechanisms designed around town, street and home. Over the ten day period, four asset maps were developed, capturing ideas, issues and responses to create an accessible landscape of project, programme and policy starting points for the local authority. Building on Place Markers, People Markers saw the public play with questionnaires to discuss data farming, revealing who they were and what they felt was important locally; this developed into a pop-up conversation park for a local authority. It is currently being reworked as a peripatetic outdoor discussion space 'Room to Talk' for community engagement contexts and community development agencies.

70:70 Vision: 2018 with photographer Chris Haddon (UK)
Presenting large format photographic images of 70 local residents, along with their stories of life in Harlow, this installation was designed as a talking point… literally offering a chance to sit and chat in one of the 70 seats built into the exhibition, which aimed to make conversation between individuals and communities matter. 70/70 Vision was commissioned by Harlow Council as the culmination of a year long series of events to celebrate Harlow's seventieth anniversary. The installation focusses on the residents of the town, rather than the architecture and master plans that more usually spring to mind when we think of New Towns.

10x10 Community Asset Mapping App for a Ten Minute Neighbourhood exploratory project in Harlow (UK)

Richard created this android app based on UCL’s Sapelli open source structure for use during Covid 2020

Action Research Labs for Harlow Town Cross-cutting Resilience Initiatives: 2017
This research project identified new models, processes & approaches for creating enhanced resilience and prosperity in neighbourhoods and across the district as a whole, including potential partnerships/stakeholders who could develop, co-produce and implement the initiatives; resulted in published work.

Chengdu City Government Destination Marketing Department (China):   2012                    
Richard was Programme Director UK of the T10:  creating international destination cities conference in Chengdu.  He defined the conference programme and design with Chinese officials.

Examples of projects and programmes Richard has delivered for clients include:

Buxton Crescent Heritage Project (UK):  2014
Richard worked with key stakeholders (property developers & HLF) on creative strategy development - vision, shaping of proposition (Pump Room , Crescent rooms, Buxton Town and Programme), outlining of activities and action plan, budgeting cultural delivery)

One Plus One Disabled Persons' Cultural Development Center (China):  2009
Richard worked with the CEO and senior managers, leading the development of a five year strategic development plan to address creative and social ambitions as well as structural issues.

BEAM: Arts, People, Places (UK) 1998
Richard facilitated the week long National Architects and Town Planners’ Summer School with fellow facilitators internationally renowned architects Sarah Wrigglesworth and Will Alsop and artist David Mach.  

British Council, Beijing (China):   2009                            
Richard was Creative Director of the Transforming Public Spaces conference in Chongqing.  He defined the conference programme and designed the associated practical workshop activity as well as managing delivery of the conference with BC staff and chairing main stage debates.

NESTA – National Endowment for Science, Technology and the Arts (UK):   2008 - 2010
Richard was Lead Mentor for a Dream Time Awardee, defining ambition, goals, action plan and IP exploitation opportunities for the development of a cross-platform narrative on recovery and achievement.

Oxford Contemporary Music (UK):   2011
Richard produced an international live-link dialogue project for school children in UK and in China; and a music composition project for young people using natural sound recordings, which staged at schools in Oxford and Beijing.

Global Arts Impact Agenda (France/Switzerland):  2014 – 2022
Richard created international strategic initiatives to develop programmes for localised delivery against United Nations’ new Sustainable Development Goals 2015.   This social and economic development project focussed on ‘sustainable cities and healthy communities’ and ‘peace and justice’.

Richard has also prepared strategic programme and activity visions for a variety of contexts:   for example, NanTang Retail Park, JinJiang Nature Village, Coastal Treasures Heritage Hub and Harlow’s Science Alive and Heritage Museum.   He has also produced a wide range of arts and cultural events in public realm, including a site-specific performance in Royal London Hospital; an interactive mechanical light installation with digital mapping and an outdoor performance with six community groups for the Cultural Olympiad.