The Physical Infrastructure Design of Neighbourhood Public Square will make 3ºC Neighbourhood and Endowing The Future tangible through co-building regenerative, distributive-by-design neighbourhood civic infrastructure at the heart of Ladywood, Birmingham. https://t.co/Dvkkc1uok4

"Looking at the work through social value, it’s not about how many people use the building but how much knowledge can you embed locally through turning everything into a learning opportunity" https://t.co/7JYzqh9rev Kudos @CIVIC_SQUARE

Thanks to @marcodinu for creating this blog post on the recently released Development Agreement between @BhamCityCouncil & @BerkeleyGroupUK https://t.co/YEBc9CtfA7 See the thread below with the highlights… #HandsOffLadywood (1/9)

Here is our latest press release which sets out the community’s ‘Principles and Red Lines’ following extensive local consultation throughout May and June https://t.co/zh1CLRf5zT

Enjoyed speaking to Mark and Kate about organisational weirdness, it's a great series for anyone trying to build alternatives and organisations in service of social transformation/justice/collective liberation. https://t.co/PRcT8kVml4

We can't possible reclaim the roads from cars because there is no appetite for cycling in Birmingham...

Two weeks before nominations for the Birmingham Jacobs award close. We all know a special woman who is fighting for fuller public participation. Nominate them now. Or could it be YOU? nominate yourself don't be shy. https://t.co/jsk3SsxjTH

This Earth Day, imagine a future where all species can thrive.🌍 ‘Regenerative Futures’ is a new #UALShowcase collection curated by @CIVIC_SQUARE, spotlighting bold, creative projects from UAL graduates building systems for just, ecological futures. 🔗 https://t.co/gooEYfKTit

“Attempts to hide climate science from the public will not stop us from feeling the dire impacts of climate change.” https://t.co/XeuACZNIVY

Our latest issue of https://t.co/MvyKNWd5z2 Abby Martin @AbbyMartin & Francesca Albanese @FranceskAlbs

Car-dependency and its consequences (intense congestion, high housing and high commodity costs, poor urban maintenance, environmental degradation, import dependency etc.) is structurally administered at the highest levels.

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. https://t.co/cx4oxm7xgx

This cannot be “business as usual” se must not allow crimes against humanity to pass us by — repost / reshare / call your senators ask for:

Globally, the built environment and infrastructure sector are driving 30% of all species loss. Resource depletion within a linear economy pushes the extractive frontier ever further, worsening contamination and destruction of life. https://t.co/sVCp4ihKbz

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.

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?

We humbly share this work openly as part of our ongoing collective learning and building together, to invite inspiration, deliberation, and critique and to accelerate our navigation the interdependencies of achieving material, climate and social justice. https://t.co/Tj091gQUUi

Globally, the built environment and infrastructure sector are driving 30% of all species loss. Resource depletion within a linear economy pushes the extractive frontier ever further, worsening contamination and destruction of life. https://t.co/sVCp4ihKbz

In our work at @CIVIC_SQUARE the tool, intended to be activated as part of wider neighbourhood participation for processes of collective governance, open deliberation, literacy development and collective decision-making around how and why which materials are selected.

The Matrix aims to put forward a series of material recommendations and an open-source, easy-to-use tool for materials specification, presenting the information with consideration of a variety of factors and metrics beyond carbon. https://t.co/cx4oxm7xgx

As part of the Building Skills report, Material Cultures has developed a Material Matrix of natural and low embodied carbon construction materials and measures their impacts along three key indicators: embodied carbon, cost, and distance travelled to point of use.