Our afternoon workshops include: Dr Nathaniel Adam Tobias C——— - Reform Ain’t Abolition: Lessons from Birmingham’s Struggle Against Slavery aliyah hasinah 🇧🇧🇯🇲 free 🇵🇸 - Surfacing Lessons From Our Histories Khadijah Carberry - Consumed by Connection: Unpacking The Stories Embedded in the Supply Chains Around Us

📢📢 ANNOUNCING 📢📢 Organising ABUELOS 23-26 October 2024 We're creating ABUELOS, a cultural centre with accommodation. Join us as we prepare for a community space in which culture, radical hospitality and architecture are crafted to meet the moment. bit.ly/ABUELOS2024

What can we learn from our shared history that could inspire solutions to the most urgent challenges facing humanity today? Explore this with a day of immersive workshops with Khadijah Carberry, Dr Nathaniel Adam Tobias C——— and aliyah hasinah 🇧🇧🇯🇲 free 🇵🇸, finishing off the day with an evening dinner connecting over

“This is where the craft and graft of imagining and making new economic futures is best situated — close to the action and very much with the people and places that have a stake in those better futures.” link.medium.com/kxBKwuGklNb

In conversation this evening in Birmingham about #HistoryforTomorrow with one the great intellectual pioneers of our time Indy Johar Join us at CIVIC SQUARE #BeyondBooks eventbrite.co.uk/e/beyond-books…

Organising ABUELOS (23-26 Oct) invites you into a collective enquiry that informs how ABUELOS becomes real. Read more about ABUELOS’ structural layers, what we’re organising around and what's shaping the curation of the programme here: medium.com/p/0d894d8126a1

Demonstrations of how retrofit can enable us to reimagine the existing fabric of our cities, from infrastructures in service of vast industrial production to those which service the needs (social and ecological) of our time

Heartfelt gratitude to CIVIC SQUARE team for your welcome, hosting, food and conversations today. It was helpful to be pushed into discomfort in terms of my ignorance in thoughtfully designed and beautifully held sessions by Dr Nathaniel Adam Tobias C——— and aliyah hasinah 🇧🇧🇯🇲 free 🇵🇸 1/2

“The ultimate, hidden truth of the world is that it is something that we make, and could just as easily make differently.” ― David Graeber

Working in partnership with business, can only happen if government is clear on what the goals are (e.g. health for all, net zero), and then works with business to make that happen, through collective investment, designing contracts that socialize BOTH risks and rewards. In my

We all need more this!

New print

New data highlights some Social Landlords have a very large proportion of their homes failing to meet quality standards. Over 60% of Birmingham City Council and Railway HA homes fail the decent home standard.Huge. Worst offenders are LAs (perhaps they have more robust surveys?)

V excited to share this one, with all its care, joy + possibility that runs through the work of our partners Material Cultures. Interested in bio-based opportunities in theWest Mids; or the types of methodologies that can facilitate a bio-based material transition in our n'hoods?

Love michael sheen 💙, but to say POWER & Bank Job pioneered this work on very little resources, the original film is excellent and it’s really sad to see not any reference to Dan, Hilary the brilliant late great David Graeber and many others who featured and pulled such a shift.