The Public Space Academy is promoted by City Space Architecture in partnership with the Ove Arup Foundation

City Space Architecture is a non-profit organisation based in Bologna (Italy), with a mission to promote public space culture globally, through an interdisciplinary approach, involving art and architecture. Working on education, academic research and innovative, human-oriented design, City Space Architecture fosters a critical reflection on our own world, in a multidisciplinary field of action. It is the publisher of The Journal of Public Space, the first-ever, academic, interdisciplinary, open access journal on public space, developed in partnership with UN-Habitat.

Ove Arup Foundation is an independent charity honouring the memory of philosopher and engineer Sir Ove Arup who believed in the benefit of collaborative and multi-disciplinary approaches in the design of the built environment. Ove Arup Foundation promotes the advancement and communication of knowledge about the built environment through holistic and multi-disciplinary approaches to its shaping.