The new-look road – one of mayor Boris Johnson’s top 10 redevelopment projects for London ahead of the 2012 Olympics and Paralympics – has attracted international attention because of the ‘shared space’ concept that has informed the design.

It also provides a fitting setting for the millions of visitors to the area’s arts, science and learning institutions that together make Exhibition Road the UK’s most popular tourism destination.

‘Like the many other improvements we are making to London’s great outdoors it is projects like these that are not just creating fantastic new places to enjoy but which are supporting and delivering many jobs across the capital,’ said Johnson.

‘This clever approach to rearranging the streetscape at the heart of one of the most important cultural and academic corners on the planet will heighten the whole experience for visitors. In particular it will make it much easier and even more pleasurable for families visiting these unique attractions with space to wander unhindered in an area that puts people first.’

The Natural History Museum - one of the institutions to benefit from the £25m Exhibition Road redevelopment

Councillor Sir Merrick Cockell, Leader of the Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea, added that ‘it has taken us the best part of 10 years…but South Kensington and Exhibition Road finally have the setting they deserve’.

‘For 2012 and far beyond, London now has a unique streetscape that will delight our many millions of visitors and which sets a new standard for urban design,’ he concluded.

Celebrating its 10th anniversary in London’s Olympic and Paralympic year, Resonance has been described by The Guardian newspaper as  ‘the best radio station in London’ and recently won the Radio Academy Nations and Regions Award for London for the third year running. Resonance joins specialist magazine The Wire as headline media partner for Supersonix.

‘As the city’s natural home of sonic experimentation, we’re very glad to be broadcasting from Supersonix,’ says the station’s chief executive, Ed Baxter. ‘Resonance will relay both conference talks and sound art works as part of the partnership, as well as commissioning special programmes around Supersonix.

‘We’re in a unique position,’ Baxter adds, ‘as Resonance is not only an artist-led project itself (with access to a pool of hundreds of creatives) but a fluid public sculpture which can inform and even contextualise Supersonix – and audibly transport it beyond the cultural hub of Exhibition Road into the farthest reaches of the city. That makes this partnership especially exciting and timely.’

Supersonix runs from January to June 2012 and embraces artist residencies, an international conference and a free public music festival. The project unites several museums, colleges, cultural institutes and other members of the Exhibition Road Cultural Group.

Full details can be found here.

Previously, Leah worked for the London Borough of Lambeth in the Libraries, Arts and Archive department as Head of Arts and successfully developed ‘creative action’ – a three-year partnership programme between local arts organisations and council departments that raised participation in the arts by young people aged 14 to 19 by 30 per cent.

Prior to joining ERCG, Grace spent a summer of events management of musicians and cabaret performers across the UK. At Exhibition Road, she is responsible for all administrative duties including finance, organising member meetings and project development. She sits on all ERCG project groups and handled the appointment of the artists in residence as part of Supersonix.

Grace graduated from the Arts University College at Bournemouth in 2010 with a BA Hons degree in Arts and Event Management.

Paul also plays a lead role in the London Cultural Quarters forum, which brings together London cultural hubs in order to shape the city-wide cultural offer in London’s Olympic year. In partnership with the Southbank and Bankside Cultural Quarter and the Greater London Authority – he helped develop a five-year Cultural Volunteering Strategy (published by the Mayor’s Office in June 2011) and won a coveted grant from the National Endowment for Science, Technology and the Arts to develop a series of digital cultural trails (launch: April 2012), linking London’s diverse cultural organisations.

Paul’s first career was as an international cultural journalist and critic. As editorial director and co-founder of Impromptu Publishing, he created and launched eight on- and offline magazines. He has travelled extensively across Europe, Scandinavia, North America, Asia, Australia and Africa to report on culture and cultural policy issues and has been heard on BBC Radios 2, 3 and 4, Classic FM and radio stations in the US, Denmark and Germany.

A former head chorister and choral scholar of St David’s Metropolitan Cathedral in his native Cardiff, he is a trained pianist, composer and singer. Paul holds a first class honours degree from the University of Wales, a postgraduate diploma in journalism and was the 2008-9 NESTA-funded Fellow in Creative Economy on the Clore Leadership Programme. An advocate for the transformative role of the arts in society, he was a trustee of Making Music (a UK-wide charity championing amateur musicians) for four years, chair of his local community arts festival in south London and music director of a community choir for five years.

With Greg Hilty, she co-curates a touring exhibition about the Galapagos Islands, featuring 13 artists who will re-imagine the cultural significance of the ‘enchanted isles’.

From 1999 to 2004 Bergit managed the science and art programme at the Wellcome Trust. As part of the programme, she co-edited the publication Experiment: conversations in art and science (2003) and Talking back to Science: art, science, and the personal (2004). She also designed and ran the visual arts programme at the National Institute for Medical Research from 1997 to 2000. As an associate of Art Project Management, she managed the Inshore Sites public art programme in Medway in 1998/99. Her interests have also focused on recent German history. She initiated and managed the first international symposium on World War II air-raid bunker architecture in Europe within the context of 20th century architecture and urbanism in Emden, Germany (1999).

Bergit graduated from the Royal College of Art, London, in 1997 with an MA in Visual Arts Administration: Curating and Commissioning Contemporary Art.

Siân was awarded the Royal Society’s Wilkins-Bernal-Medawar Prize in 2008, giving her Prize lecture on Science and Art. Her book Art and Science (I B Tauris, 2005, 2nd edn 2008) has been highly commended and she is also editor and co-author of Strange and Charmed: science and the contemporary visual arts (Gulbenkian, 2000) and author of many essays and reviews in both arts and science publications. She is currently working with the Galapagos Conservation Trust on an international exhibition of new work by leading contemporary artists who participated in the 2007-11 Gulbenkian Galapagos Artists’ Residency Programme, which also involved the Natural History Museum.