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If you have missed out on our programme with Material Cultures, but would like to get hands on with natural materials, in community, and discover their incredible possibilities, healing powers, and connect around our neighbourhoods plans for the future site CIVIC SQUARE, there

We’ve been working alongside the most brilliant Material Cultures this year to build more deeply our knowledge, literacy and skills around bio based material approach to retrofitting our site CIVIC SQUARE as well as our wider retrofit demonstrator work at the home, street and

Do you know someone working in a small to medium construction business in the West Midlands? Share our warm invitation to join Re:Builders | Routes to Regenerative Construction in the West Midlands led by @civic_square, Dark Matter Labs + Material Cultures bit.ly/ReBuildersWM

Innovate UK Fircroft College Dark Matter Labs West Midlands Combined Authority Hawkland Architype Daniel Blyden just another tree hugger Jericho Wood Shack Come and meet some of the organising team behind the Re:Builders programme in person at our Drop In Information Day on Thursday 5th September, 10am - 4pm at @civic_square; part of a day long celebration exploring the material opportunities in our region. bit.ly/MaterialsMarket

The line up for next week from the 3rd - 8th September is looking sublime, there’s far too many people to tag but here’s a few Indy Johar, Dr Nathaniel Adam Tobias C———, Anasuya Gupta, Jack Minchella, Alys Fowler, seetal solanki, Seth Amani Scafe-Smith, Akil Scafe-Smith and so many more, but come and join to

If you enjoyed (bit weird to say that) or found useful our collaborative research with Dark Matter Labs on 3 Degree Neighbourhood on Thursday 5th September you can join myself, Charlie Edmonds, Indy Johar, Leon Sealey-Huggins, seetal solanki and Jack Minchella deep diving into it, there

Join us at the CIVIC SQUARE site for a week filled with food, play, learning, making, talks and more as we disassemble the research, design principles, material possibilities and more for the Neighbourhood Public Square to organise and prototype together. eventbrite.co.uk/o/civic-square…

You'll find me there with the honour of chairing a hopeful and imaginative panel on Urban Climate & Health Infrastructure with: 🗣️ Seth Amani Scafe-Smith 🗣️ melissa mean 🗣️ Sara Edmonds of National Retrofit Hub 🗣️ seetal solanki

I haven’t been able to get many picture this week and it’s been pretty great, last couple of days for you to come join us CIVIC SQUARE.

📢 2 days left to apply 🔨 Do you know anyone working in construction in the West Mids? We're looking for people wanting to shift to more regenerative building practices for a 6 month fully-funded programme - bit.ly/ReBuildersWM

“Landlords have no incentive to improve energy efficiency ... because so long as these changes don't impact house prices, the tenant will reap all the benefits.” NEW ESSAY: Read @Martha__Dillon on why the climate and housing crises can’t be separated. break-down.org/post/uniting-t…

Save Smallbrook is today’s top story on Open City podcast CIVIC SQUARE ACAN! Dark Matter Labs Save Station Street, Birmingham I Choose Birmingham the modernist® podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/cou…

📣 Protest for Housing and Climate Justice Today! 📍 10th Oct, 4-6.30pm, Smallbrook Ringway, Birmingham, B5 4HX 💥 Because our future depends on it! Brutiful Birmingham #SaveSmallbrook Ladywood Unite Druids Heath and Monyhull Forum DHAMF Extinction Rebellion Birmingham Birmingham People's Assembly Unite Birmingham South Community Branch Birmingham Climate Justice Coalition Kamran Shezad zero carbon house

Good to see UK architecture media highlighting the 21,000 deaths linked to NEOM. In the piece, we advocate for architectural institutions to boycott and sever ties with the practices complicit in these projects - building on essential initiatives like the BDS movement.

Building Skills is a new report by Material Cultures, situating social and ecological possibilities and context for the retrofit of the Neighbourhood Public Square at CIVIC SQUARE. In part it shares an ecoregional mapping of Birmingham + West Midlands. bit.ly/BuildingSkills…

We've just released this report with Material Cultures documenting the opportunities for bio-based material interventions in Birmingham. This work will directly inform our own retrofit proposals and, hopefully, many other projects in the region.

remember when everyone spent weeks arguing about how israel would never bomb a hospital and since then they’ve just been bombing hospitals and schools every day

Our response to the government's progress on the Inquiry's Phase 2 recommendations.

It's International Women's Day 2025. Like every year, we will be ignoring the PR posts from architectural offices — and instead highlighting the gender pay gap data from some of the UK's largest practices. 🧵

There is deep + transformative possibility for the region at the intersection of skills, built environment, retrofit, health, + deep possibility in our homes, streets and neighbourhood + dignified transition of work for the deeply skilled such as construction workers.