Head of Tate Exchange, Tate Modern
Dr Cara Courage is a placemaking, and arts, activism and museums academic and practitioner, and Head of Tate Exchange, Tate’s platform dedicated to socially engaged art. Cara speaks internationally on topics covering the C21st museum, the civic and activist museum, socially engaged art in community and museum settings and arts and urban design, placemaking and planning and has published widely on these topics. Cara is author of Arts in Place: The Arts, the Urban and Social Practice (Routledge, 2017), and the co-editor of Creative Placemaking and Beyond (Routledge, 2018), and editor The Routledge Handbook of Placemaking (Routledge, 2020).
At Tate Exchange, Cara has developed its specialism in particular in social practice arts, social justice, climate emergency and creative aging through its curation and programming and across international practice and research networks, in the museum and arts sectors.
Cara speaks internationally on topics covering the C21st museum, the civic and activist museum, socially engaged art in community and museum settings and arts and urban design, placemaking and planning. Cara is a Research Adjunct at University of Virginia and a member of the Placemaking Leadership Council, Fellow of the RSA and Academician of Academy of Urbanism, and member of Royal Geographic Society and American Association of Geographers, and various national and international museums associations.
