Your working brief

My project

Describe your idea, collect artwork references, and keep costs and next steps together on this device.

Prefer a guided brief? Open your commissioning brief →. Both views use the same saved project; this full planning workspace keeps the detailed cost worksheet and decision register.

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01 · The working brief

What do you have in mind?

A few sentences are enough to begin. Leave anything you haven’t established blank.

Add project context Site conditions, timing, people, care and funding

Add what your team knows about delivery and the help you need. These are your planning statements; imported research stays in a separate appendix.

Continue earlier work Import a Finder brief or JSON backup

Import a prepared Project Finder brief or restore a workspace backup. Review the complete preview before replacing this project. Importing does not save it.

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02Artwork & artist referencesNo references added

References with a reason.

Choose what matters about each artist or documented work. References do not establish availability, representation, artist participation, permission or site suitability.

Find more references →

Add to project on any profile saves the reference here directly. This button brings in your older shortlist, up to 30 references; save the project to keep the additions. Your original shortlist stays unchanged.

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03Cost worksheet10 categories · no amounts entered

Every figure needs a scope.

Enter USD amounts from your own planning or quotations. Unknown means no amount is known; allowance is a working provision; quoted records a quotation your team has received; excluded sits outside this worksheet’s scope. These labels are self-reported and do not verify a price.

Leave unknown amounts blank. An entered 0.00 is a known zero, not missing information. Include taxes, contingencies and exclusions in the relevant scope notes; this worksheet does not add percentages or tax automatically.

Compare published budget references to understand what different fees and commissions cover. Use their scope and exclusions to frame questions for your own project.

One-time and annual amounts are shown separately. A subtotal never establishes a complete project price. Excluded costs may still be someone else’s responsibility.

04People & next steps8 decisions · no owners assigned

Who resolves what?

Assign an owner and record the next question or evidence. Statuses describe your team’s own assessment. “Resolved” is not an engineering approval, legal review, procurement determination or confirmation from BAP.

05Retained researchNo prepared brief imported

Keep evidence separate from decisions.

The complete imported Project Finder brief remains here as context. Its source links and review dates do not become current simply because you imported or saved it. Changes to your working fields above do not revise this appendix.

Imported research appendix

06Export & shareTake the complete brief to your team or to BAP

Ready for a conversation?

Download the complete brief for your team or transfer it to the inquiry page for review. The inquiry page asks for your contact details and consent. Nothing is submitted by this workspace.

Keep a backup or reset this workspace

A JSON backup keeps the editable project for another browser or device. Restore it using Continue earlier work above.

How this workspace helps

Give the idea a place.

Describe the audience, site, timing, decision-makers and future care. Add references while exploring the directory. Your saved-for-later collection and older Finder briefs can also be brought in.

Make the unknowns visible.

Build a cost worksheet from your own figures. Assign open decisions to people. No prices, feasibility judgment or readiness score are generated.

Take the complete brief with you.

Download text for discussion and a JSON backup for later editing. Review an inquiry only when you are ready to share it.

One project, on this device. Save explicitly to keep your edits.

Project edits stay in this page until you choose Save on this device. Choosing Add to project while browsing explicitly saves that reference to this project; it keeps your existing saved fields intact. Saving uses this browser’s storage on this site and device, with no account or cloud sync. Anyone using this browser may be able to read it. Download a backup before clearing browser data. Avoid confidential information.

Planning guidance behind the prompts

Explore our public art maintenance guide, production planning references and working process. They help frame questions for your site, artist and advisers.

Describe the scope behind the amount.

Denver Public Art’s sample budget includes costs around designing, making, moving and installing a work. Use it to surface scope questions; the figures in this workspace come from you.

Denver’s sample art budget ↗

Start with the actual place.

NYC DOT’s site guidance considers available space, circulation, visibility and context. These are useful prompts for your host; NYC’s own requirements apply to its program.

NYC DOT’s site guidance ↗

Plan beyond installation.

Public Art Archive’s practitioner account supports planning for maintenance from the start, including the information and resources a custodian will need.

Practitioner lessons on commissioning ↗

These examples inform our editorial planning prompts. They do not establish a complete scope or universal requirements. Project-specific appointments, technical reviews and approvals are agreed separately.